Evolvulus. PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 105 



The cultivated sorts are ; 



1st. Yerra, or red garden Batsalla. 



It differs from the wild red in being more luxuriant ; it 

 is not much cultivated. 



2nd. Mattoo, or white Garden Batsalla. 



Voi, of the Hindoos and Bengalees. 



Like the last, it differs from the wild white only in being 

 more luxuriant, according to the nature of Ihe soil, and is 

 much cultivated. The above two are generally raised 

 from the seeds. 



3d, Pedda, or large Batsalla of the Telingas. 



B. liicida, and cordifolia. Willd. 1. 1514. 



Poi-sag of the Hindoos and Bengalees. 



Basella. R/ieed. MaL 7. t. 24. 



This is much cultivated, and always from slips taken 

 from the old plants ; it grows to a great size running over 

 extensive, trellises, erected for the purpose, and gene- 

 rally about the houses of the natives, where its numer- 

 ous, large, succulent branchlets and leaves form a most 

 agreeable shade to protect them from the heat of the sun. 

 This variety is also more used as a pot herb by the na- 

 tives, than any of the other four, though all are reckoned 

 equally wholesome. 



I think the whole may be reckoned varieties of one spe- 

 cies, and probably Basella Japanica Bnrm. ind. t. 39./. 4. 

 is nothing more than from a stunted specimen of one of 

 these varieties. 



EVOLVULUS. Schreb.gen. n. 524. 



Calyx five-leaved. Coro/ companulate, plaited. Germ. 

 Capsules superior, two-celled cells, two-seeded. 



1. E. ahinoides. Willd. 1. 1517. 



Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves subsessile, oblong, 



