l. P, Convolvulus L. bindweed. Stems prostrate, branching, climbing 
and twining; leaves 4-8 cm, long, broadly ovate and deeply cordate below, { 
narrowly lanceolate and subhastate above, pale green, glabrous; ocreae 
cylindrical above, funnelform below, 3-4 mm, long; axillary recemes 8-10 
em, long, lower bracts leaflike, much reduced, each subtending a cluster of 
2-5 drooping flowers; perianth whitish or green, 5-4 mm, long, 5-cleft, the 
lobes oblong, tightly enclosing the fruits; achene 3 mm, long, ovoid, 3-angled, 
black and shining. 
Us 
In waste places; introduced from suropee Much resembles, Vonvolvulus 
4 
in habite 
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