42 >PENTANDUIA MONOOYNIA. CoflVOlvulllg* 



21. C. denied us, Willd. Sp. PL i. 8 49. 



Twining, and creeping, muricated. Leaves cordate, ihree-lobed, 

 dentate. Peduncles from two to three-flowered ; leaflets of the ca- 

 lyx obovate. 



In Bengal it is more luxuriant than on the coast, leaves generally 

 entire, stem&, Sec. generally smooth, and with longer, many- flowered 

 peduncles. 



Tiling. Talla-antoo tiga. 



A native of hedges, thickets, &c. Flowering time the rainy season. 

 Stems and branches twining, or creeping, filiform, often perenni- 

 al, coloured, armed with small inoffensive prickles, otherwise smooth, 

 one or two fathoms long.— Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, three* 

 lobed, toothed, smooth, from one to two inches long.— Petioles 

 prickly, branch-like.—: Peduncles axillary, as long as the petioles, 

 and like them, from two to three -flowered — Flozvers short-pediceT- 

 led, small, yellow.— Filaments woolly at the base.— Stigma single, 

 large, globular. 



22. C. copticus, Willd. Sp. PL i. 863 * 



Herbaceous, procumbent, angled. Leaves palmate ; lobes lan- 

 ceolate, serrate. Flowers terminal, on minute branchlets. Calyces 

 murexed. 



A native of pasture ground, flowering in the rains. 



Stems procumbent, rarely twining, herbaceous, angled from the 

 insertion of the leaves, from one to two feet long. — Leaves alternate, 

 short-petioled, palmate, scarcely an inch long, lobes from five to se- 

 ven, divided to near the base, lanceolate, serrate, smooth, the inner 

 ones smallest. — Stipules like the leaves, but small, and sessile. — • 

 Flowers terminal, small, white. — Calyx murexed. — Lobes o^ the co- 

 rol semi-orbicular with a point. 



• Jpomoea, Roth. Syst- Veg. iv. 20S.-N. W. 



