PHARBITIS LEA‘RI. 
~ LEAR’S PHARBITIS. 
EXOGENE oR DICOTYLEDONES, 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs. 
NATURAL ORDER, CONVOLVULACEA, 
. esi <puaamne § joie divisions PENTANDRIA, 
= to which os avait’: 
bncgateigie: ip Plant belongs, OF LINNEU 
No, 184. 
GENUS. Puarsitis. C. CaLyx quinguesepalus, Corotta cam- 
panulata vel infunbaliformis, limbo patente yar eacpe Stamina quin- 
que, corollz tubo inserta, inclusa RIM tri-quad- 
riloculare, rin biovulatis, Srytus simplex. st capitato- papas 
Capsvuta tri-quadrilocularis, tri-quadrivalvis, Semina sex vel octo erecta. 
EmpsryoniIs curvati cotyledones corrugate. HeErse rola, foliis. cordatis 
integris vel lobatis, pedunculis axillaribus uni- vel multifloris. 
SPECIES. Puarsitis Leari. Forts amplis cordatis Scheie trilobisve 
supra viridibus minute — vel piece — walgtees cano-se rive eis, ped- 
unculis petiolum ; 
sepalis lineari- lanceolatis acutissimis feasts basi pilosis. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PHarsiTis. Caryx of five sepals, 
Corotza bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, the limb spreading, with five 
folds. STameENs five, inserted in the tube of the corolla and enclosed 
within it, the filaments dilated at the base. Ovary three or four-cel- 
led, each cell with two ovules. Styze simple. Sricma capitate, 
granulate. CapsuLe three or four-celled, three or four-valved. Sreps 
six or eight, erect. Emsryo curved with corrugate cotyledons. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, PHarsitis Leari. STEM twining 
to a great height, much branched, clothed with a short somewhat silky 
down, composed of appressed reflexed hairs. Leaves alternate, 
stalked, broadly heart-shaped, with a short point, entire or deeply three- 
lobed, three to five inches long, and nearly as broad, silky on both sides 
when young, but when full grown the upper side appears smooth, 
though, in fact, there is almost always a thinly scattered appressed 
down, the under side remains covered with a close appressed whitish 
silky down. Pepunctes axillary, four or five inches long, with a 
short silky down, bearing at the top a loose head of sixteen or twenty 
large purple flowers. Bracrs leaf-like, the outer ones ovate, or 
heart-shaped, the inner ones linear lanceolate. PkrpiceLs much 
