ft)U't.^s HORTUS JAMAICENSia 9 



BINDWf^EDS. EVOLVULUS. 



Cl. 5, OR. 4. Penfandria tefragjjnh. Nat. or. Campavace^. 

 Ilus name is derived from evoho, to roll ubout. 



'Gr.N. cil.M}. Calyx a five-leaved periantliium ; leaflets lanceolate, sliarp, perma- 

 nent; corolla one-petalied rotate, five-cleft; statuina, five capillary spreading 

 filaments, almost t^e length of the corolla, with little tibiong antSiers^ the pistil- 

 ]um has asomfwhat globo.se gernien, four capillary styles, diverging, length of 

 the stamens, with simple stigmas ; the pericarp is a somewhat globose ibur-celled 

 four-valved capsule ; the seeds are solitary, roundish, and cornered ou one sid^- 

 Wour species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. MUMMULARIUS. MGNEV. 



'Vonvolvulus minor repens, mnynmularici: folio, flore caTulen. J^Ioanc, 

 V. Ij-p. 1S^7, t. 99, f. 2. Ilerhaccus repens, Joliis iiibi-otmuU^^ Jluri- 

 bus tiiiinijue-crenatis sivgularibus alanbns. Browne, p. 153. 



Leaves roundish ; stem creeping ; flowers sub-sessile 



3^ rom a .small stringy fibrous root spring long trailing stalks, taking root here and 

 Shere, where they touch the ground, and putting forth, alternately, at small imeqiial 

 .ilistances, leaves almost round, three-quarters of an inch long, atid an inch broad, 

 having a small notch at tive end, and on petioles a quarter of an inch in length, and of 

 a brown colour. Flowers axillarv, on short peduncles, of d light blue colour ; legume 

 brown, containing two or three brown seeds. It grows very plentifully after raia in 

 the town savannas. Slouuc. 



Swartz says the corollas are white, though Sloane might have perceived a blueisli 

 tinge, which is frequently the case. Browne calls it the small creeping convohulus, 

 ana observes that the flowers h.re deeply crenated. According to Swartz the styles are 

 three or foui', and the capsule three or iouv celled and valved. 



2. LINirOLIUS. LIN'EAR-LEAVED. 



Ilerhaceus erectw, foliis linearibiis, pcdioicmis loitgis tenuissimis bi- 

 \ bracteatis alaribiis. Browne, p. 152, t. 10, f. 2. 



Leaves lanceolate villose, sessile ; stem npright ; peduncles three- flowered, 

 long. 



This little plant is sometimes found in the lowlands, and seldom rises above ten or 

 fourteen inches from the root. The stalk is generally simple, or in-it very little divid- 

 ed, slender and npright ; the le.aves are narrow and few, and throw out so many long 

 nd delicate flower stalks from their ala;, each furnished with a very small exterior bi- 

 phyllus cHp about the middle. The styles are two and bifid ; and the cajisuies divided 

 jnto two or four cells, and contain many seeds. The whole plant has the appearance 

 f a very fine species of the flax. . * 



S". SERICEUS. SILKV. 



Erecfus herbacais subhirsutiis, foliis linearibiis, pedinicuJis brevibiis 

 siniplicibus solitariis ad alas. Browne, p. 153, t. 10, f. 3. 



i-eaves lauceolate, sessile, silky underneath, peuunc]es short, one- flowered. 

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