486 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Convolvulus. 
brought to the Rotanke garden at Calcutta, amongst the earth 
in which some spice plants came. They bloga during the 
hot season, 
Stems and branches creeping, perennial, striking root at 
the joints chiefly ; young shoots smooth, polished, pale green; 
Jength from one to three fathoms. Leaves, petioles erect, two- - 
lobed, or of a deeply emarginate, round, obcordate shape, 
margins entire, and very smooth on both sides, about three 
inches long, by two and a half broad! Petioles round, slight- 
ly channelled, smooth, with two very conspicuous reddish 
glands at the apex. Peduncles axillary, erect, slender and 
longer than the petioles; bearing from one to seven, or even 
nine, large, purple flowers on their proper, clavate striated, 
pedicels. Calyx ; leaflets ovate, somewhat three-ribbed, and 
transversely rugose. MNeclary, a glandular ring round the 
base of the germ. Filaments enlarged, woolly at the base. 
Stigma of two round lobes. Capsules vertically compressed, 
smooth, lined with a tough pellicle. ‘Seed clothed with much 
soft, short, dark brown hair. : ° 
_. Obs. A variety, if not a distinct species has been reared in 
this garden, from seed received from China. It flowers in 
April and May; the peduncles one-flowered, the leaflets of 
the calyx scarcely rugose, with subulate points ; when wound- 
ed milky. In size, colene of Aho Rowers sisi ge. ia 
are the same, 
sh. cc Pes-capre. Willd. sp. A i, 876. aah 
1 Detenniel: creeping to a great extent, Leaves Lange ppeicl- 
ed, two-lobed, smooth, at the base two glands, “Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, one or two-flowered. ; 
Beng. Chhagul-khooree, i bs 
Hind. Dopati-luta. ak il 
~ Schovanna-Adamboe. Rheed. Mal. xi. 117. 4. Bre ) 
: A native of the sandy shores of India ; where. it blossoms ae 
and ri pens its seed most marist este ue isis BiBER. vad cs 
