Evolvulus. PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. » 105. 
The cultivated sorts are ; 
Ast. Yerra, or red garden Batsalla. 
' It differs from the wild red in being more luxuriant ; it 
is not much cultivated. 
2nd. Mattoo, or white Garden Batsalla. 
Poi, of the Hindoos and Bengalees. 
Like the last, it differs from the wild white only in being 
more luxuriant, according to the nature of the soil, and is 
much cultivated. The abeve two are generally raised 
from the seeds, 
3d. Pedda, or large Batsalla of the Telingas. 
B. lucida, and cordifolia. Willd. 1. 1514." 
Poi-sag of the Hindoos and Bengalees. 
Basella. Rheed. Mal. 7. t. 24. 
This is much cultivated, and always from slips taken 
from the old plants ; it grows to a great size running over 
extensive, trellises, erected for the purpose, and gene- 
rally about the houses of the natives, where its numer- 
ous, large, succulent branchlets and leaves form a most 
agreeable shade to protect them from the heat of the sun. 
This variety is also more used as a pot herb by the na- 
tives, than any of the other four, though all are reckoned 
equally wholesome. 
I think the whole may be reckoned varieties of one spe- 
cies, and probably Basella Japanica Burm. ind, t. 39. f. 4. 
is idittings more than from a stunted specimen of one joa 
these varieties, — 
EVOLVULUS. Schreb. gen. n. 524. 
Sales five-leaved. Corol. companulate, plaited, Germ. 
Capsules superior, two-celled cells, two-seeded. 
LE. alsinoides. Willd. 1.1517. —_ 
- Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves subsessile, oblong, 
