•Convolvulus. PENTANDUl'A MON0GYNIA. 71 



A native of Silhet and Nepala, blossoming in November and De- 

 cember. 



Stems slender, divided into a few branches, prostrate on the 

 ground, striking roots as they lengthen ; their upper ends seem to 

 have a tendency to climb — Leaves from two to four inches long, 

 varying considerably in figure, from linear-oblong to cuneate, mostly 

 acute at the base with a very few hairs. — Petiol about half an inch 

 long — Peduncles hairy, round, above the middle with two opposite 

 linear very small bractes ; mostly one-flowered, sometimes divided at 

 the apex into two or three generally barren, shoit pedicels, each with a 

 pair of minute bractes at the middle. — Calyx scariose, reticulated, 

 consisting of five very unequal leaves : the two outermost opposite, 

 nearly equal, ovate, more than half an inch long, their cordate base 

 adnate, unequal, with somewhat recurved lobes ; the third between 

 these, nearly equalling them in length, but much narrower, dimidiate- 

 cordate, sub-falcate ; the two innermost small, alternating with the 

 outer leaves, lanceolate, villous. — Corolla white, campanulate, pube* 

 scent, with villous plicatures, obscurely five-lobed, scarcely twice the 

 length of the calyx ; tube very short. — Stamina hairy, inserted within 

 the tube, decurrent, short ; anthers sub-cordate. — Ovarium 2-locular, 

 4-sporous. — Style as long as the stamina; stigma rleshy, tuo-lobed. 

 —Capsule about half the size of the permanent calyx, 4-vaIved ; 

 4-seeded. Seeds oval, triangular, smooth. 



Obs. My plant certainly is very iike C. unifiorus, Burro. Ind. 47, 

 t. 21. f. 2. which appears to be a species of Cali/slegia as has 

 been remaked by the editors of Syst. Veg. iv. 248. (under Ipomoea). 

 Independently of its wanting the large calycine bractes, the leaves 

 are broader than those figured by Burman. — N, W. 



34. C. stipulaceus, R. 



Creeping, smooth, with apices twining. Leaves cordate-sagit- 

 tate, with lobes repand. Stipules recurved. Peduncles many-flowered. 

 Calyx smooth. Lobes of the corol obcordate. Sad woolly. 



