Convohlllu*. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 479 



the Botanic garden amongst plants received from friends in 

 the vicinity of Calcutta. The flowers appear in profusion 

 during the cool season; they are pretty large, of a bright 

 sulphur colour and the stigma is of two round lobes. 



23. C. digitatus. R. 



Perennial, twining, spinulous. Leaves digitate. Pedun- 

 cles from three to four -flowered. Corols almost funnel shap- 

 ed. Stigmas of two round lobes. Seeds woolly on the con- 

 vex side. 



A native of hedges, Sec. Flowering time the cold season. 



Stems and branches twining, perennial, round, with here 

 and there a few small inoffensive prickles. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, digitate. Leaflets generally five, broad-lanceolate, 

 entire, smooth, the inferior ones smallest. Petioles channel- 

 led, armed as the branches, as long as the leaflets. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, about as long as the petioles, from three to four- 

 flu wered. Flowers pretty large, between campanulate and 

 funnel -formed, a pale bluish purple. Stiff ma two-lobed. 

 Seeds woolly on their outer angles. 



O'jS. This is one of the must beautiful Convolvuli in India. 



24. hirsutus. R. 



Annual, twining, extremely hirsute. Leaves digitate; leaf- 

 lets five, sessile, broad-lanceolate, entire. Peduncles from 

 one to three-flowered. Calt/x very hairy, entirely hiding, un- 

 til ripe, the cordate, smooth, four-celled capsule. 



A native of the interior parts of Hindoosthan ; flowering- 

 time the close of the rains, and cold season. 



Stem and branches annual, twining, very hirsute ; hairs 

 somewhat bristly, issuing from little brown glands; general 

 extent of the plant from six to twelve U-et. Leaves petioled, 

 digitate. Leaflet* live, sessile, lanceolar, acute, entire, hairy, 

 about three inches long by one broad. Petioles round, as 

 lono- as the leaflets, hirsute. Peduncles axillary, sometimes 

 *s long as the petioles, hirsute, bearing from one to three, 



