Conrohulus. pentandrja mcn'ocynia.' 45 



ciliated leave?, which like the corolla are hairy and ferruginous on 

 their outside, and smooth within. — Corolla twice as long as the 

 calyx not plicated, divided below the middle into five lanceolate, 

 acute lacinia, which during their aestivation are valvate. — Stamens 

 five, smooth, alternating with, and shorter than, the segment of the 

 corol \ filaments obscurely subulate, arising from rive-villous tuber- 

 cles immediately beneath the fissures of the corolla ; anthers linear, 

 deeply bifid at their base, erect, exceeding their filaments in length, 

 bursting along their margins from the base to the apex. — Ovarium 

 ovate, hairy, two-celled, four-seeded ; ovula erect; styles distinctly 

 two, diverging, pubescent, shorter than the stamens ; stigmas large, 

 fleshy, recumbent, reniform, crenulate. — Capsule round, membra- 

 naceous, of the size of a pea, twice as large as the calyx, which sup- 

 ports it, smooth, attached by a decurrent pedicel considerably be- 

 low the centre of the floral bracte, which has now become almost 

 orbicular, of an extremely delicate and membranaceous, sub-diapha- 

 nus texture, measuring two inches in diameter, smooth, entire, 

 retuse or emarginate at both ends, most beautifully reticulated and 

 veined ; the middle rib, the lower portion of which consists of the 

 decurrent pedicel, elevated beneath, as are also the sub-opposite, 

 approximate nerves ; those about the pedicel radiating, those above 

 them oblique, all of them uniting in sub-marginal arches. Cotyle~ 

 dons according to Mr.. Jack are contortuplicate as in Parana*.—* 

 N. W. 



CONVOLVULUS. Schreb. Gen. N. 287. 



Calyx five-leaved. Corol campanulate. Germ two-, rarely, three- 

 celled. Stigma from two to three-lobed. Capsule, two or three-cel- 

 led ; cells two-seeded. Embryo erect, curved ; cotyledons corru- 

 gated. 



NB. In far the greater number of our Ea3t Indian Coinokuli, act] 



