Convolvulus. PENTANDRIA MOJfOGYKIA. 49 



extent of many fathoms, generally tinged with purple. Long run- 

 ners issue from the top of the root, and spread along the surface o£ 



the earth. Leaves cordate, in the young luxuriant shoots and runners. 



they are often variously lobate, or have their posterior lobes angular ; 

 all are smooth on both sides from two to four inches each way, and 

 like the' tender branchlets often tinged with purple, particularly the 

 margins, veins and nerves ; there are two round, smooth, rust-coloured 

 glands on the sides of the base of the nerve, where it joins the peti- 

 oles, which are from one to six inches long.— Peduncles small, deci- 

 duous.— Calyx smooth, leaflets obovate, acuminate, and very small 

 in proportion to the size of the corol. — Stamina within the tube. — 

 Stigma of two round lobes. — Capsules smooth, membranaceous, 

 from two to four-lobed with a single, dark brown or black, smooth 

 seed in each. 



5. C. maximus, Willd. Sp. PL i. 853. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves ovate, entire. Peduncles many-flow- 

 ered, longer than the leaves. Seeds woolly. 

 A native of Coromandel. 



6. C. malabaricus, Willd. Sp. PL i. 857-* 



Perennial, twining, every part smooth. Leaves cordate, entire; 

 Tcduncles many-flowered. 



Kattu-Kelengu, Rheed. Mai. xi. 105. t. 51. 



A very extensive, perennial species, found in Mysore by Dr. B. 

 Ileyne. In the Botanic Garden it began to blossom in February, 

 when the plants were four years old. 



Stem and larger branches ligneous, and clothed with spongy, un- 

 even, ash-coloured bark ; twining over trees, &c. to the extent of se- 

 veral fathoms ,* young shoots smooth, deep green ; every part, on be- 

 ing wounded, discharges a large quantity of dull-coloured, clammy 



• Jpomoea, Syst. Veg. iv.235.— N. W, 

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