Ipomoea. pentandria monogynia. 497 



Lettsomia bona-nox. Bracles lanceolate. Calyx, leaflets 

 linear-oblong. Corol with a cylindric tube, from two to 

 three inches long, border about four inches in diameter. 

 Floicers hairy at the base. Anthers within. Germ four-cell- 

 ed, four-seeded. Stigma of two linear-oblong lobes. Berry 

 oblong, shorter than the calyx, smooth, pointed, one-celled. 

 Seeds from one to four, (one is most common,) enveloped in a 

 little mealy pulp. Perisperm and embryo as in the order. 



IPOMOEA. 



Calyx five-leaved, (or five parted). Corol funnel-shaped. 

 Stigma two-lobed. Capsules two-celled ; cells two seeded. 



I. I. grandi flora. R. 



Perennial, twining, sometimes murexed. Leaves cordate, 

 rarely lobate, acute, smooth. Peduncles length of the peti- 

 oles, three- flowered. Stigma of two round lobes. Capsules 

 two-celled. 



Munda-Valli. Rheed. Mai. xi. 103. t. 50. 



Convolvulus grandiflorus. Linn, suppl. plant. 136. 



Munda-valli. Asiat. Res. iv. 257. 



Beng. Doodiya-Kulmi. 



Ipomoea bona-nox. Jacq. Ilort. Schoenb. 



Convolvulus maxiinus. Sloan. Jam. 96. J'. 1. is most likely 

 this plant, for I have reared it in Bengal from seed received 

 from the West Indies with that name. The only difference 

 is that the leaves of the West Indian plant are rather more 

 angular, and like Sloane's figure, than those of the East In- 

 dian one. 



A large, twining species, common in hedges near Samul- 

 cota, and in Bengal, and on the banks of water courses 

 amongst bushes. Flowers during the cold season in the Cir- 

 cars, and in Bengal during the hot and rainy seasons. 



Stem twining, running to the height of from ten to twenty 

 feet, smooth, except that it is sometimes armed with small in- 

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