482 ri.NTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 



Bel-Adamboe. Rheed. Mai. xi. p. 119. /. 68. may be this 

 p1:i 1 1 1 though iii some respects they will !>c found to differ a 

 little. 



[pomoea repens. Lamarck ilhist. i. 45>7. 



A native of the Mysore country, from thence the seeds 

 were senl by Dr. B. Heyne to the Botanic garden* where the 

 plants thrive luxuriantly, and are in blossom most part ot* the 

 year. 



Stem and branches creeping-, perennial, long, ample, sl<n- 

 dcr, and smooth. Leaves reniform, or cordate-reniform, with 

 a small terminal bristle for a point, smooth on both sides, and 

 as in C. brasiliengis, having- two glands on the under" side of 

 the base; breadth from two to three inches, and the length 

 considerably less. Petioles as long as the leaves, channelled, 

 swelled at the insertion, and there marked with some glan- 

 dular knobs. Peduncles axillary, solitary, larger than the 

 petioles, round, smooth, bearing- from three to six, large, pure 

 white flowers. Leaflets of the calyx ovate, fleshy ; outside 

 transversely rugose. Stigma of one, transversely oval, large 

 lobe. Capsule with generally four, light brown, smooth seeds. 



28. C. repens. Willd. sp. pi. i. 874. 



Annual, creeping, or floating, piped, smooth. Leaves ob- 

 long-cordate, posterior lobes angular. Peduncles shorter 

 than the petioles, from three to six-flowered. Corol sub-in- 

 fnndibiiliform. 



Ballel. Rheed. Mai. xi.p. 107. t. 52. 



Olus-vagum. Rumph. Amb. v. 41.9. t. 155. f. 1. 



C. reptans. Willd. sp. pi. i. < s ?5. is probably this plant, 

 or a variety of it. 



Benff. Kulmi-shak. 



Telvng. Tootie-kura. 



A native of standing sweet water, or places where water 

 lately stood, very common. 



Stems creeping, or floating on the water, annual, or bien- 

 nial, round, piped, jointed, smooth, many fathoms long. 



