Porana, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 465 
riose are enlarged into as many oblong, lanceolate wings many 
times longer than the capsule itself; the other two continue 
of their original length, but so contracted in breadth as to be 
filiform. Seed solitary, affixed to the base of the capsule, Pe- 
risperm and embryo as in the Convolvulacee, to which order 
it belongs, 
Obs. A large plant, from thirty to forty feet long, covering 
a mango tree, is now in full blossom before me, and is certain- 
ly a most lovely sight; the long pendulous extremities of the 
branches, with their numerous panicles of small, white flow- 
ers, and hoary leaves, render it a very pleasing object. 
2. P. volubilis. Burm. Ind. 51. t. 21. f. 1. Willd. sp.i. 843. 
_Shrubby, twining. Leaves cordate, entire, smooth. Pani- 
cles axillary, and terminal. Corol five-cleft, | Style bifid. 
A native of various parts of India, but scarce in Bengal; 
flowers during the cold season in the pein, and 
when i in that state is uncommnly beautiful. 
_ Trunk and branches ligneous, twining, to a very igen ae 
able extent, over trees, &c. Leaves alternate, petioled, cor- 
date, entire, smooth, pointed, from two to three inches long, 
and from one to two broad. Panicles axillary, and terminal, 
drooping ; ramifications thereof alternate, and downy. Flow- 
ers numerous, small, white, inodorous, pedicelled. Bractes 
small, villous, several on the base of the pedicels, and one 
longer than the others under its insertion. Calyx of five, 
oblong, scariose leaflets, which are nearly as long as the corol. 
- Corol campanulate; border five-cleft ; divisions oblong, and 
obtuse, Filaments five, inserted near the bottom of the tabe 
Ge odin Sigh Ball two.cltiyene of the divibonia idsintor, 
Stigma’ eaded , somewhat two-lobed, U/iriculus surround- 
ed with five, scariose, equally enlarged, permanent leaflets of 
_ the calyx ; round, OO > hm meararmcaahe The 
“rest as in the former species, = = : inet 
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