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Tripe 2, CoNVOLVULER. 
Pericarp capsular, Dehiscent. 
474. QUAMOCLIT. Don. Pentandria Monogynia. 
“From kuamos--a kidney bean, klitos--dwarf; because it resembles the kid- 
ney bean in ijs climbing stems, but is less tall”. (Don.) In what Greek au- 
thor does Kuamos—signify a kidney bean particularly; and klitos—dwarf? 
May the name not more easily be derived from its Indian appellation —‘‘Ca- 
enalata” Lam. ¢. 104. 
965. Q. PHoenicea. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 258. Ipomoea pheenicea. Rox. Flora. 
1. p. 502, Bot. Rep. t. 449. 
Crimson Quamoclit:—twining, leaves cordate reniform; side sinuate, 
flowers in the cold weather, of a most beautiful bright crimson colour:—tube 
long, slender. In gardens, pretty common. 
966. Q. Vutcaris., Don’s. syst. 4. p. 260. fpomoca Quamoclit. Rox. Flora. 
1. p, 503. Convolvulus pinnatus. Lam. Ency. 3. p. 567. Flos cardinalis. 
Rumph. Amb, 5. t. 2. Rheed. Mal. 11. ¢. 60. Bot. Mag. ¢, 244. 
Lam. Illust. 1. ¢. 104, Camalata. Asiat. Res. 4. p> 256. 
Its elegant blossoms are ‘ celestial rosy red, leve’s proper hue.”--(Sir 
W. Jones, queting from Milton.) 
Cupids fower,—Indian forget me not.—An annual, twining plant, with pin- 
nate leaves; leaflets filiform;—fowers in the rains.—Common in gardens. 
There is a pure white flowered variety, equally common. (Mr. Vau pell.) 
475. BATATAS, Don. Pentandria Monozynia, 
The West Indian and American name:—also applied to the common po- 
tatoe.—probably adopted into the Malay language, when the plant was in- 
troduced there by the Spaniards? 
967. B. Eputts. Don’s. syst, 4. p, 260. Convolvulus batatas, Rox. Flora, 
1. p. 483. Rheed. Mal. 7. ¢. 50. Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 180. Moris. Hist. 2, ¢. 3. 
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Rattaloo.--- Sukur-kund.---Sukurid-kind,---the Sweet potatoe:—very gene- 
rally cultivated all over India. It is held in much esteem in Scinde, where 
vegetables are scarce, and is the chief one cultivated. (Dr. Burnes, K. A.) 
According to Polack a redundant but pleasing writer, who talks of ‘‘ ne- 
bulous clouds” and ‘‘pluvious showers,” (Scottice—a ‘‘small little thing’’.) the 
Kumera or Convolvulus battatas, ‘is accounted the most invaluable food pos- 
sessed by the New Zeylander, and is the sole edible that has been handed 
-.dowu by tradition, as having been coeval in the country with the remotest of 
its aborigines.” 
Ke seems to be correct in identifying the Kumera, with the Batatas, not- 
withstanding he does in the same page call the rum esculentum, a well 
Known legume; with sundry other sayings cennected with the vegetable 
productions, which must be equally astounding te Botanists in the northern 
Hemisphere. Sut he may be right. 
““Ask where’s the north?—at Yerk ’tis on the Tweed”. 
(See Polack’s New Zeyland vol. 1. chap.9.) 
968. B. PanicuLata. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 261. Convolvulus paniculatus. 
Rox. Flora. 1. p. 476. Pul. Modecca. Rheed. Mal, 11. ¢. 49. Bot. Rep. ¢. 636. 
Bot. Reg. ¢.75. Ipomoea insignis. Bot. Mae. ¢. 1790. 
Perennial, twining; leaves palmate, Sor 7 cleft. Flowers in the rains, nu- 
merous, large; of a beautiful dark purple colour:—seeds woolly,—Malabar 
Hill; Bombay.—Cross Island, in great abundance; Mahim woods &c. 
969. B. Pentapnytua. Don’s. syst 4. p. 264. Convolvulus hirsutus. Rox. 
Flora. 1. p. 479. C. munitus. Wallich. Wight in Hookers. Bot. Misc. Part. 
ae 7, C. pentaphyllus, Sprengel’s syst, 1, p. 590. and Appendix, Vol, 4. p. 
