Convolvulus. PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 477 



fathoms long, the extremities of the branches are often high- 

 ly coloured, and less hairy than the other parts. Leaves al- 

 ternate, petioled, broad-cordate, frequently five-lobed, re- 

 motely serrate-dentate, a little downy ; size very various, be- 

 ing from one to six inches long. Petioles of the longer infe- 

 rior leaves equalling these in length ; those of the floral 

 leaves short. Peduncles axillary, about as long as the floral 

 leaves, from three to six-flowered. Flowers large, bell-shaped, 

 very beautiful, of a bright lively yellow. Calyx hairy. An- 

 thers becoming spiral after opening the extremities. Stig- 

 ma of two round lobes. 



19. C. dentatus. Willd. sp. pi. i. 849. 



Twinino-, and creeping, muricated. Leaves cordate, three- 

 lobed, dentate. Peduncles from two to three-flowered. Leaf- 

 lets of the calyx obovate. 



In Bengal it is more luxuriant than on the coast, leaves ge- 

 nerally entire, stems, &c. generally smooth, and with longer, 

 many-flowered peduncles. 



Teling. Talla-antootiga. 



A native of hedges, thickets, &c. Flowering time the rainy 

 season. 



Stems and branches twining, or creeping, filiform, often per- 

 ennial, coloured, armed with small inoffensive prickles, other- 

 wise smooth, one or two fathoms long. Leaves alternate, peti- 

 oled, cordate, three-lobed, toothed, smooth, from one to two 

 inches long. Petioles prickly, branch-like. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, as long as the petioles, and like them, from two to three- 

 flowered. Flowers short-pedicelled, small, yellow. Filament* 

 woolly at the base. Stigma single, large, globular. 



20. C. copticus. Willd. sp. pi. i. 803. 



Herbaceous, procumbent, angled. Leaves palmate. Lobes 

 lanceolate, serrate. Flotcers terminal, on minute branchlets. 

 Calyces murexed. 



A native of pasture ground, flowering in the rains. 



