Convolvulus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, A473 
dunciles axillary, solitary, very short, or almost wanting, bear- 
ing many small, rose-coloured, sessile flowers, formiag globu- 
lar heads. Bractes or involucres many, linear, recurved, 
Calyx, leaflets as long as the corol, hairy, tapering to a rather 
long, recurved point, Corol having the border slightly mark- 
ed wilh ten indentures. .Anthers half hid in the tube of the 
corol,. Stigma of two round lobes. Capsule globular, villous, — 
size of a marrow-fat pea, two-celled, with two ee 
seeds in each. 
Obs, There is a variety of the above, if not a distinct spe- 
cies, with white flowers, in round sessile heads, and having 
narrower leaves; in other respects they exactly agree; both 
are natives of Bengal and both arenow growing luxuriantly in 
the Botanic garden. Compare them with J; pombe ‘qoute 
12, C. pilosus. R. : 
‘Annual, twining, every part very hairy. ‘lieth de cor- 
date, entire, or slightly three-lobed, hoary underneath, S¢i- 
pules ear-shaped. Cymes long-peduncled. pe ota leaflets 
and bractes ensiform and ciliate. 
_A native of Mysore; the seeds were sent from thence by 
Res Heyne, to the Botanic garden, where the plants spring 
up during the rains; jbleasdtniny and ripening their seeds 
Per the cold season, | 
Annual, Stem and branches twining, extensive, oak 
very hairy, every part replete with a clammy white juice. 
Leaves broad-cordate, sometimes a little three-lobed, on the 
upper side a little hairy and deep green, underneath clothed - 
with soft white wool; length from two to six inches, breadth 
nearly the same. Petioles about as long: as the leaves, chan- 
nelled, and hairy. Stipules yeniform, with callous, ciliate 
margins ; they are always present where there is a peduncle, — 
Peduncles axillary, about as long as the petioles, bearing 
from one to ten or twelve, small, rose-coloured, pedicelled 
flowers. Bractes opposite, with a cordate, peduncle-clasp- 
ing base; long, taper, recurved points; and ciliate, callous ~ 
