500 PENTANDKIA MONOGYNIA. Iponwea. 



Tiru tali. Rheed. MaL xi. p. 109. t. 53. is certainly this 

 plant, though quoted for Convolvulus maximus. Can they be 

 the same ? Probably they are, as Vahl's description agrees 

 tolerably well with my plant. 



Telivg. Metta-tootia. 



This is one of the most common species on the coast, it 

 grows plentifully in every hedge, thicket, &c. Flowers dur- 

 ing the rainy and cold season. 



Stem twining, perennial ; young shoots round, filiform, 

 hairy. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, pointed, somewhat 

 sagittate, or angular behind, otherwise entire; smooth, often 

 clouded with brownish spots in the centre ; from two to three 

 inches long. Peduncles axillary, as long as the leaves, round, 

 smooth, clubbed, many-flowered. Flowers large, of a beau- 

 tiful pale rose-colour. Stigma two-lobed ; lobes globular. 

 Capsule smooth. 



6. I. ceerulescens. R. 



Perennial, twining, all the tender parts hairy. Leaves round 

 cordate, acute. Peduncles erect, length of the petioles, from 

 one to three-flowered. Stigma of three round lobes. Cap- 

 sules smooth, three-celled. 



Native place uncertain, nor can any Asiatic names be pro- 

 cured for this beautiful, distinct species. 



Stems perennial, twining to a great extent ; young shoots 

 round, hairy, and twining ; hair reflexed. Leaves round-cor- 

 date, long-petioled, posterior lobes large and rounded, apex 

 acute, surface less hairy than the petioles and shoots, size three 

 or four inches each way. Peduncles axillary, length of the 

 petioles, hairy, at all times erect, from one to three-flowered. 

 Floicers pretty large ; their colour when they first expand 

 early in the morning, is a beautiful lively pale blue, or azure, 

 gradually growing darker. Bractes lanceolate, hairy. Calyx 

 five-cleft; segments ensiform, hairy, about half the length of 

 the tube of the corol. Corol ; tube widening a little from 

 the base, paler than the undivided border. Germ three-celled. 



