Jpomoea. pentandria monogynia. 503 



Obs. This is by far the most gaudy plant of the kind I 

 have yet met with ; no painter can do justice to the brightness 

 of its flowers. 



9. I. Pes-tigridis. Willd. spec. i. 886. 



Annual, diffuse, or twining, hairy. Leaves palmate. Pe- 

 duncles longer than the petioles. Flowers several in a soli- 

 tary, aggregate, involucred head. 



Beng. Langwli-lwta. 



Pulii sehovadi. Rheed. Mai. xi. 121. t. 59. 



Volubilis zeylanica. Dill Elth. tab. 318./. 411. 



This is one of the most common, and generally diffused 

 plants we have in India. Flowering time the rainy season 

 chiefly. 



Stems diffuse, or twining when supported, round, and very 

 hairy ; hairs fulvous, and diverging. Leaves alternate, long- 

 petioled, palmate, hairy; lobes from five to nine, lanceolate, 

 entire. Peduncles long, or longer than the petioles, hairy, 

 each supporting a single head of sessile, white, or pink flow- 

 ers ; the latter variety is smaller than the white one. Involu- 

 cre from eight to twelve-leaved ; leaflets unequal, recurved, 

 lanceolate, obtuse, hairy. Calyx of five lanceolate, acute, 

 unequal, leaflets. Corol, with its five lobes deeply emargi- 

 nate. Stigma of two round lobes. Capsules two-celled. Seeds 

 two in each cell. 



10. I. Quamoclit. Willd. spec. i. 879. 



Annual, twining. Leaves pinnate, leaflets filiform. Pe- 

 duncles one or two flowered. 



Tsjuria-cranti. Rheed. Mai. xi. 123. 1. 60. 



Flos cardinalis. Rumph. Amb. v. 155. t. 2. 



Camalala. Asiat. Res. iv. 256. 



Sans. Kam«h*ta, Turooluta. 



Beng. Lai kambrta or lal t«rool«ta, the red variety ; sweto 

 kamlwta or sweta tuvoohiia, the white-flowered variety. 



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