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CONVOLVULUS seoparms. 



Canary Rosewood. 



PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Convolvulace^;. 

 CONVOLVULUS. Botanical Register, vol. 2.fol. 133. 



C. scoparius; erectus, fruticosus, ramosus, sericeus, foliis linearibus, cymis 

 axillaribus multifloris erectis racemosis, corollse plicatse limbo 5-partito, 

 staminibus limbo brevioribus, ovario villoso biloculari conico-acuruinato, 

 ovulis geminis, stylo nullo, stigmatibus linearibus. 



Convolvulus scoparius. Hortus Kewensis, 1. 213. Willd. sp. pi. 1. 8/2. 

 Ventenat choix des plantes, t. 24. Romer fy Schultes syst. veg. 4. 299. 



Breweria? scoparia. Lindl. Flora Medica,p. 400. no. 821. 



For an opportunity of figuring this curious little plant I 

 have to thank Mr. Young, Nurseryman, Milford, near Godal- 

 ming, who received it from Mr. Barker Webb. Whether or 

 not it is mentioned in that gentleman's work on the Canaries 

 I am unable, from the irregular and confused way in which 

 the book is published, to ascertain. It appears on other testi- 

 mony to occur near Santa Cruz, and elsewhere in the Canary 

 islands. 



Nothing can well be less like a Convolvulus than this, and 

 I presume it will be removed from the genus when M. De 

 Candolle revises the Convolvulaceous order. In the meantime 

 I leave it there, partly from not wishing to interfere with the 

 nomenclature about to be promulgated by M. DeCandolle, 

 partly from not knowing what the fruit is, and in part from 

 not being able to make up my mind in what of the modern 

 genera it can be surely stationed. At one time I had placed 

 it in Breweria, with a mark of doubt ; and it may possibly 

 belong there : but the narrow lobes of its style are not capi- 

 tate, and are rather to be considered as stigmata sessile on 

 the apex of a long-pointed ovary. Then there is a genus 

 Seddera, proposed by Steudel and Hochstetter for an Arabian 



