41'^ PEIITANDRIA J10.NOCVMA. Convolvulus. 



Stems procumbent, rarely twining', herbaceous, angled 

 from tlic insertion of the leaves, from one to two feet Ion/. 

 Leaves alternate; short petioled, palmate, scarcely an inch 

 long, lobes from rive lo seven, divided to near the base, lan- 

 ceolate, serrate, smooth, the inner ones smallest. Stipule* 

 like the leaves, but small, and sessile. Flowers terminal, 

 small, white. Calyx mure\ed. Lobes of the corol semi-or- 

 bicular with a point. 



21. C. pameulatus. Willd, gp. pi. i. 866. 



float tuberous, perennial, twining', smooth. Leaves pal- 

 mate. Cymes long-peduncled, capsules four -celled. Seeds 

 woolly. 



Pal-modecca. Rheed. Mai. xi. 101. t. 4i>. (Exclude Mo- 

 decca. Rheed. Mai. viii. 39. t. 20.) 



Ipomoea mauritiana. J acq. Collect, iv. 206L 



Beng. Bhoomi-koomra. 



Teling. Matta-pal-tiga. 



A native of hedges, thickets, &c. Flowering - time the wet 

 season. 



Root perennial, tuberous. Stems and branches perennial ; 

 young shoots round and smooth. Leaves alternate, petioled ; 

 palmate, from three to six inches each way. Z,o/>es Generally 

 tive, divided little more than halfway down, broad lanceo- 

 late, entire, smooth. Peduncles axillary, erect, as long m 

 the petioles, sub-umbel-bcaring. Flowers numerous, large, 

 of a beautiful dark reddish purple. Capsules four-celled. 

 Seeds woolly, all round. 



Obs. Cattle eat it. The root is cathartic, and as such used 

 by the natives where is grows. 



22. pedaius. R. 



Perennial, twining, smooth. Leaves pedate-triternate, leaf- 

 lets lanceolate, entire. Stipules filiform-ped ite. Peduncles 

 one-flowered ; and with the calyx warted. 



^Native place uncertain, as it has accidentia sprung up in 



