Convolvulus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 475 



dilated and dentate. Peduncles axillary, from one to two- 

 flowered. Leaflets of the calyx lanceolate, cuspidate. 



Tala-Neli. Rheed. Mai. xi. 113. I. 55. 



Found in various parts of India, in flower during' the rainy 

 and cool seasons. 



15. tridentatus. Willd. sp. pi. i. 848. 



Annual, leaves short-petioled, sub-cuneate, with sagittate, 

 acutely dentate, posterior lobes, and a somewhat retuse, or 

 rounded tridentate apex. Peduncles filiform, one, rarely 

 two- flowered. 



Evolvulus tridcntus. Burm. hid. 77. t. 10. f. 3. 



Sendera-clandi. Rheed. Mai. xi. 133. t. 65. 



Found common on the coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Sec. 

 Flowers during- the rainy season in Bengal. 



16. C. bicolor. mild. sp. pi. i. 850. 



Perennial, twining-, hairy. Leaves cordate, and generally 

 somewhat angular, downy. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 from one to four-flowered. Bracies lanceolar. Calycine leaf- 

 lets acute and very unequal. 



Hind. Jumd-kulmi. 



Is a species common in hedges, &c. over the coast of Coro- 

 mandel. Flowers during the rains. 



Stents twining, herbaceous, round, covered with soft hair, 

 or down, from one to two fathoms long. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, broad-cordate, sometimes slightly and irregularly 

 lobate, downy, from one to four inches long. Peduncles ax- 

 illary, twice as long- as the leaves, slender, erect, downy, end- 

 ing in a small head of from two to four sessile flowers. Bractes 

 lanceolate, one or two pressing on each of the calyces. Floivers 

 middle-sized, yellow, bottom of the bell, deep purple. Stigma 

 of two globular heads. Capsules hairy, four-celled. Seeds 

 black, one in each cell. 



Obs. Since writing the above description I have often 

 met with plants, having- one, and two-flowered peduncles. It i* 



