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106 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Evolvulus. 
hairy. Peduncles from one to three-flowered ; fruit droop- 
ing. 
2. E. hirsutus. Willd. 1. 1517. 
Vistnu-clandi. Rheed. Mal. 11. t. 64. 
Anagallis hirsuta minor. Burm, zeyl. t. 6.f. 1. and t. 9. 
J. 1, seems also the same plant. 
Is a native of the various parts of tages and in blos- 
som most part of the year, 
Root perennial. Slem scarcely any, but numerous, very 
slender, cespitose, round, bifarious branches, which, while 
young, are covered with long, soft, white hairs. Leaves 
alternate, bifarious, subsessile, oblong, entire, hairy on 
both sides. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the 
leaves, jointed near the middle, where two opposite, 
lanceolate bractes are inserted ; from one to three-flow-. 
ered, but one is the most common number ; while in blos-. 
som erect, afterwards drooping. Calyx of five lanceolate,. 
hairy leaflets. Corol rotate-campanulate, margin almost 
entire, deep bright blue. Stamens crowning the mouth of. 
the very short tube. Germovate. Styles two, but each. 
three-fourths two-cleft.. Stigmas simple. Capsule, and. 
seed as in Convolulus, 
3. E, pilosus. R. 
. Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceo- 
late. | Peduncles three-flowered, and amply bracted. 
Style single, two-cleft. 
A native of Hindoosthan. In the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta, it is in flower most part of the year. 
Root perennial. Stem scarcely any, but several, some- 
what ligneous branches spread ¢lose on the ground ; ten- 
der parts clothed with soft, appressed hairs. Leaves al- 
ternate, remote, sessile, linear-lanceolate, hairy, Pe- 
duncles axillary, very short, hairy, three-flowered. Flow- s 
ers nearly sessile on the common peduncle. _Corol short- 
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