40 FENTANDRIA MOXOGYNIA. Poranl, 



to the bot!om of the cell. Style short, and simple. Stigma of 

 two, large, round, lobes. — Capsule (utriculus,) ovate, one-celled, 

 evalvular, membranaceous, brittle, villous, size of a small pea, sur- 

 rounded by the remaining calyx, three of the five leaflets thereof 

 becoming scariose are enlarged into as many oblong, lanceolate 

 Mings many times longer than the capsule itself; the other two 

 continue of their original length, but so contracted in breadth as to 

 be filiform. — Seed solitary, affixed to the base of the capsule. Peris- 

 perm and embryo as in the Convolvulacece, to which order it belongs 

 Obs. A large plant, from thirty to forty feet long, covering a mango 

 tree, is now in full blossom before me, and is certainly a most lovely 

 sight ; the long pendulous extremeties of the branches, with their nu- 

 merous panicles of small, white flowers, and hoary leaves, render it a 

 very pleasing object. 



2. P. volubilis, Burnt, hid. 51. L 21./. 1, Willd. Sp. i. 843. 



Shrubby, twining. Leaves cordate, entire, smooth. Panicles 

 axillary, and terminal. Corol five-cleft. Style bifid. 



A native of various parts of India, but scarce in Bengal, flowers 

 during the cold season in the Botanic Garden, and when in that state 

 is uncommonly beautiful. 



Trunk and branches ligneous, twining to a very considerable ex- 

 tent, over trees, &c. — Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, entire, 

 smooth, pointed, from two to three inches long, and from one to 

 two broad. — Fanicles axillary, and terminal, drooping;' ramifications 

 thereof alternate, and downy. — Flowers numerous, small, white, in- 

 odorous, pedicelled. — Bractes small, villous, several on the base of 

 the pedicells, and one longer than the otheis under its insertion. — 

 Calyx of five, oblong, scariose leaflets, which, are nearly as long as 

 the corol.— Corol campanulate ; border five-cleft; divisions oblong, 

 and obtuse .—Filaments five, inserted near the bottom of the tube of 

 the corol, and nearly as long as the corol.— Germ ovate, one-celled, 

 containing four ovula, attached to the bottom of their cells. Style 



