Jacquemontia. | CONVOLVULACEAE. 317 
10. I. insularis, Steud. Nomencl. — A stout twiner with woody base, 
the young branches hispid with soft pole hairs. Leaves cordate, with 
broad rounded sinus and auricles, 3—4'/2‘ long and nearly as broad, 
acuminate, silky-pubescent on both faces when young, the petioles 2—4‘ 
long. Peduncles exceeding the petioles, 2- to several-flowered, the pedi- 
s 2—6”, the linear-lanceolate bracts of the same length or more. 
Sepals herbaceous, lanceolate, long acuminate, !/2—*/4‘, pubescent. Cor 
tubular-campanulate, 2—-3‘ long, azure blue, reddish when dry, phon at 
the bottom of the tube, as are also the bases of style and stamens. 
Stamens '/2 as long as the corolla. Style as he as the stamens, the 
stigma entire, globose. Capsule globose, about the size of a small cherry, 
the two seeds dark brown, glabrous. — Pharbitis sasuke Choisy, in DC. 
Prod. IX, 341. — sent ee Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. — Mann, 
Enum. no. 374. — Wawra, |. c. 1874, p. 363. — Remy’s No. 414 has the leaves 
lobed and rather cea! — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 12. 
Very eee ass the dower woods, where it wraps small trees and shrubs in dense 
berate ape ig roseate. Nat. names: «Koali» and «Koali awahia». 
urs also in the Tonga and Viti Islds., the Ladrones, Tanna, Norfolk 
Isla. and ou the east — of Austr alia. mg root is a powerful cathartic, muc 
inn , but s it irritates the kidneys; is also employed 
externally in bruises ahi ef lesen of ited : 
3. JACQUEMONTIA, Chois. 
epals 5. Corolla campanulate, angular or broadly 5-lobed. Stamens 
Ealeied Style filiform, with 2 flattened ovate or oblong stigmatic lobes. 
ary * celled, 4-oyuled. Fruit a capsule opening into 4 or rarely 8 valves. 
— Twining or prostrate herbs, sometimes woody at the base. Leaves 
entire, very rarely lobed. Flowers rather small, in axillary pedunculate 
cymes, rarely paniculate. 
A tropical genus, chiefly American, distinguished from Convolvulus by the thicker ane 
complanate stigmatic lobes. Our plant is in this respect intermediate between the tw 
1. J. Sandwicensis, Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. V, 336. — Stems prostrate, 
1—2 ft. long, glabrous or pabeacent, scarcely woody at the base. Leaves 
rather thick, obovate or broadly cuneate, %/s—1'j2‘ >< 1/2—1‘, on petioles 
slender, about 1‘ long, umbellately or cymosely 3—7-, often only 2- or 
1-flowered, the pedicels 6—9”, the bractlets linear and small or lanceolate 
and larger. Sepals herbaceous, 3—5, the three outer ones broadly ov; 
obtuse, the two inner ones little shorter, but much narrower and acuminate. 
Corolla campanulate, 5—6”, angularly lobed, glabrous, pale eh — 
shorter than the style, ae pe nd puberulous at the base. 
Sagittate, versatile. Stigmatic lobes thick clavate- oblong, oe sila 
nate. Capsule globose, 2’. Seeds glabrous or y puberulous. — 
