Convolvulus. PENTANDRIA MONOGTNIA. 4? 



Jy period — Leaflets of the calyx obvolute, reniform, emarginate, with 

 thin, membranaceous edges, increasing in size with the fruit, and 

 covering it completely at all times.— Germ four-celled, with one 

 ovulum in each cell, attached to the bottom, stigma of two round 

 lobes.— Capsules entirely hid in the calyx, which together with them 

 is the size of a large nutmeg. — Seeds covered with a dense coat 

 of fine brown down, and hairy round the umbilicus. 



2. C. semidigynus, R. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate villous. Peduncles three or 

 more-flowered. Style half two-cleft. Stigmas globular. 



A native of the Shree-nwg?<r mountains, from tlience Captain 

 Hardwicke sent seeds to the Botanic Garden, where the plants, three 

 years old when this description was taken, are very extensive and in 

 full blossom in December. 



Stems woody, twining; young parts villous. — Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, cordate, and ovate-cordate, entire, pointed, of a very soft, 

 villous texture, particularly underneath; three or four inches long, 

 and about two broad. — Petioles half as long as the leaves, villous. — 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the petioles, round, downy, 

 each bearing three or more large, pure white, inodorous flowers. — 

 Bractes ovate, caducous. — Calyx downy. — Carol villous on the 

 outside. — Anthers with their points bent buck towards the bottom olf 

 the corol, and their sagittate bases pointing to its mouth. — Germ 

 bearded. — Style two-cleft. Stigma globular. 



3. C. binectariferus, Wall. 



Twining, hairy. Leaves cordate, acuminate, five-nerved, rather 

 longer than their petioles ; the lowermost with an acute lobe on one 

 or both sides. Corymbs axillary, shorter than the petioles, dense, 

 on a flattened peduncle. Corolla thrice as long as the equal, ovate 

 calyx. Exterior nectary five-parted, valvular, attached to the base 

 of the corolla, bearing on its back the shoit filament tinterter fleshy . 

 annular. 



