Convolvulus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 471 



than the leaves, round, hairy, many-flowered, the divisions of- 

 ten accompanied with a leaf or two. Bractes small, hairy, ca- 

 ducous. Flowers of a moderate size, rosy. Calyx with equal, 

 ovate, rounded, smooth, segments; their margins coloured. 

 Corol ; tubs or bell sub-cylindric; the inside deep purple; the 

 outside and border pink ; lobes emarginate, and slightly se- 

 parated. Nectary a yellow, fleshy ring, surrounding the base 

 of the g-erm. Filaments inserted on the bottom of the bell of the 

 corol, there of a purple colour and bearded. Anthers ovate- 

 oblong. Germ sub-obovate. Stigma of two globular lobes. 

 Capsule nearly round, size of a large pea, fleshy, two-celled, 

 with two smooth seeds in each. 



8. C. parviflorus. Willd. sp. pi. i. 856. 



Annual, twining. Leaves cordate, smooth. Peduncles as 

 long as the petioles, many-flowered ; lobes of the corol point- 

 ed. Stigma two-cleft, lobes revolute. 



Ipomoea paniculata. Burnt. Fl. hid. p. 50. t. 21.^/1 1. 

 (bad.) 



A native of hedges, &c. Flowering time the cool season. 



Stems twining, annual, round, sometimes slightly hairy. 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, exactly cordate, entire, fine-point- 

 ed, sometimes very slightly hairy, from one to four inches long. 

 Peduncles axillary, rather longer than the petioles, erect, ma- 

 ny-flowered, umbel-bearing. Flowers pure white, lobes 

 acute. Stigma two, clubbed, revolute. 



9. C. calycinus. R. 



Perennial, twining, hairy. Leaves cordate, acute. Pedun- 

 cles from two to three-flowered. Exterior three leaflets of 

 the calyx sagittate, ciliate, as long as the gibbous tube of the 

 corol. Fruit drooping. 



A native of the interior parts of India ; from Cawnpore 

 Captain I lardwicke sent plants to the Botanic garden, where 

 they blossom about the beginning of the cool season. 



Stem twining, perennial ; tender shoots very hairy. Leave* 



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