Letlsomia. pentandria monogynia. 493 



where the plant flowers during the cold season. The seeds 

 ripen four or five months afterwards. 



Stem and large branches woody, twining ; young shoots vil- 

 lous. Leaves round, reni form- cordate, villous ; from three to 

 four inches long, and from three to five broad. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, generally longer than the leaves, each sup- 

 porting a yellowish, dense cyme of many sub-sessile, large, 

 pale pink flowers ; embraced by one or more unequal small 

 leaves, the largest of which are shaped like the other leaves, 

 and peduncled ; the smaller ones nearly round, and sessile. 

 Calyx, the exterior leaflets nearly round ; the inner ones ovate- 

 oblong; all are more or less recurved, and villous. Coro/sub- 

 infundibuliform, the outside villous. Style much longer than 

 the stamens. Stigma of two round, bright purple lobes. 

 Berry smooth, yellow, soft, pulpy, round, size of a small cher- 

 ry ; with from one to four, smooth, white seeds. Seeds and 

 embryo as in other convolvulacece, viz. a descending radicle 

 with the lobes irregularly folded, and invested while fresh, 

 in something like a thin perisperm. 



9. L. pomacea. R. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves round-cordate, emarginate. 

 Peduncles dichotomous, from three to five, or seven-flowered. 

 Bractes cuneate. Berry succulent, four-seeded. 



Ipomoea zeylanica. Gcert. carp. ii. 482. t. 178. 



A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds were sent by 

 Dr. Buchanan to the Botanic garden, where the plants thrive 

 well, and blossom during the hot and rainy seasons ; the seeds 

 ripen about eight months afterwards. 



Stems twining, ligneous, as thick as a man's arm ; young 

 parts covered with tolerably smooth, ash-coloured bark. 

 Branches numerous, twining, very extensive ; young shoots 

 clothed with short, white depressed hairs. Leaves petioled, 

 round-cordate,with the margin waved, emarginate, both sides 

 clothed with short hair ; veins almost simple and parallel ; 

 length from two to four inches, the breadth nearly equal to 



