Convolvulus* PENTANDRIA M0N0&YNIA.' (13 



23. C. penicillatus, Willd. Sp. PL i. 865 * 



Root tuberous, perennial, twining, smooth. Leaves palmate. 

 Cymes long-peduucled, capsules four-celled ; seeds woolly. 



Pal-modecca, Rheed. Mai. xi. 101. i. 49. (E>£lude Modecca^ 

 Rheed. Ala!, vm. 30. t. 20.) 



Ipomoea muuritiana, Jacq. Collect. W. 0.06. 



Sung. The dark variety, fqf^^, Vs'daree, ^jfcsr^u* Ksheera- 

 shookla, Tr^il*t[T> ikshoogi/ndha, ^fiift, Kroshtree. 



The pale yariety, ^rHf^i<f , Ksheenmdaree, H^I^cJI, Mtfha- 

 sbweta, ^^JJIptf^x, Rikshttgwudiuka, gixngt, Varahee. 



Be no-. Bhoomi-koomra. 



O 



Teling. Matta-pal-tiga. 



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



Rout perennial, tuberous. — Stems and branches perennial, young 

 shoots round, and smooth, — heaves alternate, petioled; palmate, 

 from three to six inches each way; lobes generally five, divided little 

 more than half way down, broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth. — Pg. 

 duncles axillary, erect, as long as the petioles, sub- umbel-bearing. 

 — Plotters numerous, large, of a beautiful dark reddish purple. — 

 Capsules four-celled. — Seeds woolly, all round. 



Obs. Cattle eat it. The root is cathartic, and as such used by 

 the natives where it grows. 



24. C. pedatus, R. 



Perennial, twining, smooth. Leaves pedate-triternate, leaflets 

 lanceolate^ entire, .S^w/esfiliform-pedate. Peduncles one-flowered j 

 and with the calyx warted. 



JMative place uncertain, as it has accidentally sprung up in the 

 Botanic Garden amongst plants received from friends in the vi"* 

 cinity of Calcutta. The flowers appear in profusion during the 



* Ipomoea, Brown Prodr. i. 286.— Syst. Veg. Lv. 20D-— N. W. 

 , f I have specimens collected at Ptuang by Mr. Jack.— N. YV. 



