&8 TENTANDKIA M9NOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 



Sung. Synonyma, See page 60. 



Seng. Teoree, Dood-k/dn». 



Welixg. Tell a- ta gada. 



Common in hedges, &c. Flowering time the rainy season.* 



Mcot perennial. — Stems twining, several fathoms long, from three 

 to four-sided, angles membrane-winged, a little downy, perennial. 

 — Leaves alternate, petioled, form various, from cordate to linear, 

 all are pointed, and lobate, or angular ; behind a little downy. — 

 Stipules none, but instead thereof glands. — Peduncles axillary, 

 many-flowered.^— Flowers large, white. — Bractes oval, concave, 

 falling. — Germ elevated on a large glandular body. Stigma two- 

 lobed. — Capsules involved in the dry calyx, absolutely four-sided, 

 four-celled, one-valved ; apex transparent. — Seeds round, black, one 

 3« each cell, dee. 



Ohs. The bark of the roots is by the natives employed as a pur- 

 gative, which they use fresh, rubbed up with milk. About six inches 

 in length of a root as thick as the little finger, they reckon a com. 

 anon dose. Cattle do not eat the plant. 



Additions bij N. TV. 



The drug which this plant yields is so excellent a substitute for 

 3alap and deserves so much the attention or practitioners that I 

 doubt not the following account will prove acceptable. I am in- 

 debted for it to my highly esteemed friend Mr. G. J. Gordon, a 

 Surgeon on the Bengal Establishment and one of the Commissioners 

 of the Court of Requests at Calcutta, and the trials which I have 

 made with the pounded root kindly communicated to me by Mr. J« 

 Glass at Bhaugulpore, in 1817, amply corroborate it. I am informed 

 by the hist mentioned gentleman that he is in the habit of using the 



* *The plautls also common about Kautmamla. — X. W. 



