Betteomia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, — 493. 
where the plant flowers during the cold season. The ea 
ripen four or five months afterwards, . 3 
_ Stem and large branches woody, twining ; young shits vils 
lous. Leaves round, reniform-cordate, villous; from three to 
four inches long, and from three to five broad. Peduneles 
axillary, solitary, generally longer than the leaves, each sup- 
porting a yellowish, dense cyme of many sub-sessile, large, 
pale pink flowers; embraced by one or more unequal small 
leaves, the largest of which are shaped like the other leaves, 
and peduncled ; the smaller ones nearly round, and sessile. 
Calyx, the exterior leaflets nearly round ; the inner ones ovate- 
oblong ; all are more or less recurved, and villous. Corol sub- 
infundibuliform, the outside villous, Sty/e much longer than 
the stamens. Stigma of two round, bright purple lobes. 
Berry smooth, yellow, soft, pulpy, round, size of asmall cher- 
ty; with from one to four, smooth, white seeds, Seeds and: 
embryo as in other convolvulacee, viz. a descending radicle 
with the lobes irregularly folded, and invested while fresh, 
in desea pone! same Seta ) 8 
OL Te plod R. arse 
© Perennial, twining. aes ekndcerdite, emarginate, 
-Peduneles dichotomous, from three to five,or scorcenilioreits 
Bractes ‘cuneate, Berry succulent, four-seeded.. fy 
~ Tpomoea zeylamica, Gert. carp. ii. 482. t..178. 
- A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds were sent by - 
Dr. Buchanan to the Botanic garden, where the plants thrive 
well, and blossom during the hot and soe Seasons me suite 
py. about eight months afterwards, Boe 
Stems twining, ligneous, as shisk-oahenieuacotie 
parts covered with tolerably smooth, ash-coloured bark, 
Branches mauris, oe very extensive young shoots 
cordat with the: nerf waved, iisiaiaeies both nidlde 
clothed with short hair; veins almost simple and parallel 
 Jength from two to four inches, the breadth nearly equal to ~ 
