ATA PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 
margins, Flowers numerous, of a lively pink colour, expand- 
ing about an inch, Calyzx ; leaflets linear, acute, longer than. 
the tube of the corol, on the outside glandular, and very hai- 
ry. Stamens equalling the tube. Stigma of two round lobes. 
Capsules globular, half the length of the calyx. Seeds four, 
woolly. 
13. C, Malcolmi. R. 
Root perennial, Stems twining, farsateal Leaves ate 
tate, with large, angular barbs. Peduncles two-flowered. 
Bractes lanceolate. Stigma of two linear lobes, 
The seeds of this plant were brought from Persia by Ma- 
jor Malcolm, in 1801. . The plants raised from them in the 
Botanic garden, blossomed during. the hot season of 1802, 
when they were about one year old. 
Root perennial. Stems and branchlets twining to an ex- 
tent of six or eight feet; somewhat furrowed, twisted, and 
villous, herbaceous, Leaves petioled, sagittate; margins a _ 
little hairy ; smooth on both sides, from one to three inches 
long. Barbs or posterior lobes dilated, spreading, some- _ 
what acute, often dentate, and always angular. Peéioles 
scarcely half the length of the leaves, channelled. Peduncles — 
axillary, iieodoseretiin three times longer than the petioles, _ 
round, Pedicels clavate, as long as the petioles, villous. _ 
Bractes two, opposite, at the base of the pedicels, lanceolate. 
. bre « ccsornaaacml fivale Corot large, ae sheansifel lively 
Germ with a yellow ring round the base. - “Siyle} iocaes than if 
the stamina. Stigma of two linear, spreading lobes... 
Obs. 1 must leave the European Botanist to determine how - 
nearly this is allied to arvensis, a Plant I have never seen ip 
— if this be not it, _ weds (veetitco:ipaiebwiaeba t2 
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