486 PENTANDRTA MONOGYN1A. Convolvulus. 



brought to tfae Botanic garden at Calcutta, amongst the. earth 



in which some spice plants came. They blossom during- the 

 hot season. 



Stems and branches creeping', perennial, striking- root at 

 the joints chiefly ; young shoots smooth, polished, pale green ; 

 length from one to three fathoms. Leaves, petioles erect, two- 

 lohed, or of a deeply emarginate, round, obcordate shape, 

 margins entire, and very smooth on both sides, about three 

 inches long, by two and a half broad. Petioles round, slight- 

 ly channelled, smooth, with two very conspicuous reddish 

 glands at the apex. Peduncles axillary, erect, slender and 

 longer than the petioles ; bearing from one to seven, or even 

 nine, large, purple flowers on their proper, clavate striated, 

 pedicels. Calyx ; leaflets ovate, somewhat three-ribbed, and 

 transversely rugose. Nectary, a glandular ring- round the 

 base of the germ. Filaments enlarged, woolly at the base. 

 Stigma of two round lobes. Capsules vertically compressed, 

 smooth, lined with a tough pellicle. Seed clothed with much 

 soft, short, dark brown hair. 



Obs. A variety, if not a distinct species has been reared in 

 this garden, from seed received from China. It flowers in 

 April and May; the peduncles one-flowered, the leaflets of 

 the calyx scarcely rugose, w ith subulate points ; when wound- 

 ed milky. In size, colour of the flowers, leaves, &.c. they 

 are the same. 



34. C. Pes-capra. Willcl. sp. pi. i. 876. 



Perennial, creeping to a great extent. Leaves long- petiol- 

 ed, two-lobed, smooth, at the base two glands. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, one or two-flowered. 



Benrj. Chhagvd-khooree. 



Hind. Dopati-tata. 



Schovanna-Adamboe. Rheed.JMal. xi. 117. t. 57. 



A native of the sandy shores of India ; where it blossoms 

 and ripens its seed most part of the year. 



Stems perennial, columnar, and smooth, never twining, but 



