484” . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, —- Convolvulus. 
three inches Jong, and less than half an inch broad. Peti- 
oles clothed with long, soft, brown hairs, | Peduncle axilla- 
ry, longer than the petioles, hairy near the base, bearing from 
one to four, small, very pale-yellow, flowers, but when one, 
or two, these are accompanied with the rudiment of one or: 
two more, and some small, cordate smooth bractes. Calyx; 
leaflets oval, equal, smooth, concave, with callous, smooth, 
dark green margins. Stigma of two round lobes. Capsiiles 
globular, smooth, size of a pea, one-celled, aed es 
Sed gppoth, deep brown. 
“31. C: stipulaceus. R. 3 
| Creeping, smooth, with apices twining. Leaves cordate- 
sagittate, with lobes repand. Stipules recurved, Peduncles 
many-flowered. Calyx smooth. Lobes of the corol obcor- 
date. Seed woolly. 
A native of Chittagong, sent from thence by Mr. W. Rox- 
burgh to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it flowers 
about the beginning of the hot season. ‘ 
_ Root perennial. Stem and branches creeping, round, 
smooth, extremities twining ; length from one to two fathoms, — 
or even more, Leaves petioled, cordate-sagittate, with pos- 
terior lobes (barbs) often repand, smooth on: both sides, 
point rather obtuse, with a minute bristle ; length from two to’ 
three inches. Petioles channelled, from one to two inches long. 
Stipules two, stout, inoffensive, non acute, at the base’ 
the pet luncles ‘axillary, so! » about’as long as 
the petioles, round smooth, somewhat clavate, searing from — 
three to six or even more, large, pure white flowers. Pedi- _ 
cels clavate, shorter than the peduncles, round, smooth. Ca- 
lyx; leaflets ovate, equal, concave, smooth, and somewhat 
transparent. Corol ; lobes of the border large, obcordate. 
Neetary a pentagonal cup surrounding the base of the germ. 
