A72 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 
cordate; entire, acute; lobes large, and rounded, a few dis- 
tinct hairs on the nerves and veins; from three to six inches 
long, and from two to four broad. Petioles hairy, slightly 
channelled, shorter than the leaves. Peduncles axillary, so 
litary, about as long as the petioles, bearing two, or three al- 
ternate,.pedicelled, rather small, pure white flowers ; after the 
flowers drop, the pedicels become drooping. Bractes cordate, 
a few scattered over the peduncles, and pedicels. Calyx, 
leaflets as long as the tube, ciliate; the exterior sagittate. Fi- 
laments smooth, Germ on a escent pedicel. Stigma “eh two 
round lobes, 
10. C, obscurus. Willd. sp. pl. i. 852. 
Annual, filiform, sometimes villous. Leaves exactly cor- 
date, entire. Peduncles jointed, clavate beyond the joint, af- 
ter the flower decays this part droops ~~ lobes of 
the corol emarginate. Seeds downy. 
A native of various parts of India, lileadiniing 4 in Bengal 
during the rainy and cool seasons. : 
Obs. In Dillenitus’s figure of C..obseurus, which is the on- 
ly species I_can compare this plant to, the lobes of the corol 
areacute ; here they are emarginate, hence I conclude they are 
different, In the Banksian herbarium either thine or one —— 
like it is named C. se te 
are Cc. spechorocephalus. R 
axillary heads, i 
A native of the interior panes of Sienna: Flsieatiag time 
from the close of the rains in October till January. batten: 
Root annual. Stem and branches twining, round ; young 
shoots clothed with short soft hairs. Leaves sagittate-cordate, | 
oste di lobes a and owned both fhe sides and a 
