478 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Convolvulus, 
Stems procumbent, rarely twining, herbaceous, angled 
from the insertion of the leaves, from one to two feet long. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, palmate, scarcely an inch 
long, lobes from five to seven, divided to near the base, lan-— 
ceolate, serrate, smooth, the inner ones smallest. Stipules * 
like the leaves, but small, and ‘sessile. Flowers terminal, 
small, white. Calya murexed. Lobes of the corol semi-or- 
bicular with a point. 
_. 21. C. paniculatus, Willd. sp. pl. i, 865. 
_ Root tuberous, perennial, twining, smooth. Leaves pal- 
mate, Cymes ane ee — four-celled.. Seeds 
woolly, 
Pal-modecea, Rheed. Mal, xi. 101. ¢. 49, epic Mo- 
decea. Rheed, Mal. viii, 39, t. 29.) — 
Ipomoea mauritiana, Jacq. Collect. iv. 206. 
Beng. Bhoomi-koomra, Se 
Teling. Matta-pal-tiga. 
A native of hedges, thickets, &c. Flowering time the wet 
season, ey 
_ Root perennial, tuberous. Stems and branches perennial ; 
young shoots round and smooth, Leaves alternate, petioled ; 
palmate, from three to six inches each way. Lobes generally 
five, divided little more than half way down, broad-lanceo- 
late, entire, smooth. Peduneles axillary, erect, as long.as 
~ _fhe petioles, : sub-umbel-bearing. | Flowers numerous, large, 
of a beautiful dark reddish b nara femee capers | 
‘Seeds woolly, all round. 
Obs, Cattle eat it, The r root is eohete ind as muah used , 
by the natives where is grows, si 
22. pedatus. R. 
_.. Perennial, twining, smooth. Leaves oeilaie-sdeeietacdale: 
Jets, lanceolate, entire. Stipules Aver rive Redan cle 
" one- ercoreds and etait as warted. ‘ 
