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CONVOLVULUS* farindsus. 

 Mealy-stemmed Convolvulus. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Con volvulacet!-'.. 

 CONVOLVULUS. — Supra, vol. 3. fol. 222. 



C. farinosus ; foliis cordatis acuminatis repandis, pedunculis trifloris, caule 



farinoso. Romer et Schultes species plant. 4. 278. 

 C. farinosus. Linn. Mantiss. 2. 203. Willd. sp. pi. 1. 846. Smith prodr. 



fl. GrcBc. Sihth. ]. 133. Jacq. hort. vind. 1. 135. 

 C. farinosus ; foliis subsagittatis oblongis acuminatis repandis supra rugosis 



subtus venosis, pedunculis folio longioribus, calycibus conniventibus, 



caule farinoso. Spreng. syst. 1. 598. 



Caules debiles, volubiles, tomentosi. Folia tomcntosa, petiolata, cor- 

 data, V. hastata, v. sagittatu, acuminata, leviter rcpanda. Pedunculi 

 scepius trijiori, foliis nunc longiores, nunc breviores. Bractese subidatce. 

 Sepala glabra, ovata, mucronata. Corolla in genere minima, limbo acute 

 pentagono. Stigmata 2, fliformia. 



Our drawing of this neat little perennial was made 

 some years ago in Mr. Colvill's Nursery. It represents 

 the upper end of a branch, in which the leaves are merely 

 cordate; but towards the root they become sagittate, or 

 even hastate. 



The peduncles vary in length, some being shorter, some 

 longer, than the leaves ; the flowers are also either three, 

 or some other number ; the former is, however, most 

 common. 



A native of Madeira, whence it was introduced to the 

 Kew Garden by Masson, in 1777. Also found by 



* So called from convolvo, to twine round; in allusion to the most 

 usual habit of the genus. 



