Ipomoea, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 497 
Lettsomia bona-nox. Bractes lanceolate, Calya; Jeaflets 
Imear-oblong. Corol with a cylindric tube, from two to 
three inches long, border about four inches in ‘diameter, 
_ Flowers hairy at the base. Anthers within, Germ four-cell- 
ed, four-seeded. Stigma of two linear-oblong lobes, Berry 
oblong, shorter than the calyx, smooth, pointed, one-celled, 
Seeds from one to four, (one is most common,) enveloped in a 
' little mealy pulp. Perisperm and embryo as in the order, 
IPOMOEA. 
Calyx five-leaved, (or five parted), Corol funnel-shaped. 
ee two-lobed, Capsules two-celled ; celis two-seeded. 
LL. grandiflora. R. 
Perennial, twining, sometimes murexed, Iota Siblata, 
rarely lobate, acute, smooth, | Peduneles length of the peti- 
oles, three-flowered. eet of two round lobes, Ca a 
_ two-celled. 
- Munda-Valli, Rheed.. Mal. xi, 103. 1. 50, 
Convolvulus grandiflorus, Linn, suppl. aieids 136. 
Munda-valli, Asiat. Res. iv. 257. 
Beng. Doodiya-Kulmi. — 
Ipomoea bona-nox. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb, 
Convolyulus maximus. Sloan, Jam, 96, f.1. is unget ‘likely 
this plant, for I have reared it in Bengal from seed received 
from the West Indies with that name. The only difference 
is that the leaves of the West Indian plant are rather more 
angular, and like Sloane’s aligns than those of the valk In- 
dian'one. = 
A Lies sosindegiapuelens einen Te: gallery: adn 
cota, and’ in Bengal, and on the banks of water courses 
amongst bushes. . Flowers during the cold season in the Cir- 
cars, and in Bengal during the hot and rainy seasons. 
Stem twining, running’ to the height of from ten to twenty 
feet, smooth, except that it is sometimes armed with small i in- 
- ‘VOL. I. = 
