wards or diverging, giving the leaves a hastate or gagittated form,. All 

 the parts of the inflorescence densely hairy.— Bract es much smaller 

 than the calyx, which consists of five unequal segments, hispid cp 

 bpth sides. Corolla hairy without, oblong, especially in. the middle of 

 the five acute short lobes.— Stamina unequal. It differs from.^. 

 tamwfolifl, (UUJ. Wort. Eltham. 428. t. 318. f. 410.) in the much 

 narrower leaves and larger corols. It cprpes near to G, cogitata^ 

 Vahl. Symb. iii. 28.— N. W, 



13. C. (Ipomoea.) airopurpureus, Wall. 



Twining, densely villous. Leaves ovate-cordate, acute or acur 

 minate, longer than their petioles. Flowers aggregate, axillary, 

 sub-sesrile, with numerous involucre-formed, membranaceous 

 grades. 



A native, of the northern parts, of l^epaL?, *»§»$ Gosam-Thaiit, 

 where it blossoms in November* 



Stem slender, rounds densely covered with depressed^ pale-ferrur 

 gineous, short, soft hair. — Leaves somewhat remote., most, entire,, 

 #bout four inches long, generally seveounerved, besides, sending seve- 

 ral alternating nerves from the sides of the middle rib, cilia|e, hair};, 

 especially underneath ; lobes of the base large and rounded. — Petioles 

 about an inch long, bearded, round. — Stipules nosqe, — Pedjincles 

 axillary, very short, slightly bifid, bearing a few sub-sessile,, I§ rge, 

 deep purple, villous, fascicl edjlowers. Bractes large and numerous, 

 lanceolate^oblong, hairy, thin and membranaceous, larger than the 

 calyx ; those within smaller.— Calj/x consisting pffive unequal, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate leaflets. —Corolla twice as long as the calyx, cam- 

 panula te, hairy without; border obtuse, slightly five-lobed. — Fila- 

 ments subulate, unequal, reaching to about the middle of the corolla, 

 inserted a little above its bottom with their villous bases. Anthers 

 linear. — Ovarium smooth, ovate, surrounded with a narrow nectary, 

 four-celled, four-seeded. Style capillary. Stigmas two, globose.— 

 N. W. 



