492 ?l vr.vxniu \ moxogynia. Let/somia. 



Convolvulus cuneatus. Willd. spec. i. 873. 



Some plants of this uncommonly elegant species, were 

 brought from the Mysore country, by General Martin in 1792. 

 He gave one of them to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, which 

 lias been multiplied by layers, and blossoms about the close 

 of the rains in September, and October. 



Stems woody, twining, of very considerable extent. Bark 

 smooth, dark grey. Young shoots covered with short depress- 

 ed hairs. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, cuneate, emargi- 

 nate, entire, smooth above, a little hairy underneath ; general 

 length about two inches. Peduncles axillary, solitary, three- 

 flowered, round, villous,about three quarters of an inch long - . 

 Pedicels shorter than the peduncles, always consisting of an 

 opposite incurved pair, with a solitary shorter one in the cen- 

 tre. Bractes linear. Calyx, leaflets ovate, a little villous. 

 Corol large, of a beautiful deep bright purple colour. Tube 

 ample; the five lobes of the border cmarginate, which makes 

 the whole appear ten-lobed. Nectary, a fleshy ring round 

 the base of the germ. Filaments broad, and hairy, at the 

 base. Stigma of two, round heads. Berry oblong, dry, one- 

 celled. Seeds from one to four, immersed in a little dry fari- 

 naceous matter. 



Obs. This when in blossom, is one of the most beautiful of 

 the whole order; the large, very bright, deep purple flowers 

 make it particularly conspicuous amongst its own deep green 

 leaves, and this is much augmented by making it run over 

 any other stout plant with dense deep green foliage. 



8. L. cymosa. R. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves round, reniform-cordate. Pe- 

 duncles larger than the leaves. Flowers many, in an involu- 

 cred, dense cyme. Berry globular. 



An extensive, stout, perennial, twining- plant, a native of 

 the Malabar mountains; from Wynaad the seeds were sent. 

 by Captain Dickenson, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 



