Lellsomia. *entandria monogynia. 83 



ones ovate-oblong; all are more or les9 recurved, and villous. — Co- 

 rol sub-infundibuliform, the outside villous. Style much longer 

 than the stamens. Stigma of two round, bright purple lobes.— 

 Berry smooth, yellow, soft, pulpy, round, size of a small cherry; 

 with from one to four, smooth, white seeds. — Seeds and embryo as 

 in other convohuJacea, viz. a descending radicle with the lobes irre- 

 gularly folded, and invested, while fresh, in something like a thin 

 perisperm. 



9. L. pomacea, R- 



Perennial, twining. Leaves round-cordate, emarginate. Peduncles 

 dichotomous, from three to five, or seven-flowered. Bractes cu- 

 neate. Berry succulent, four-seeded. 



Ipomoea zeylanka. Cart- carp. ii. 482. t. 178. 



A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds were sent by Dr. Bu- 

 chanan to the Botanic Garden, where the plants thrive well, and 

 blossom during the hot and rainy seasons ; the seeds ripen about 

 eight months afterwards. 



Stems twining, ligneous, as thick as a man's arm ; young parts co- 

 vered with tolerably smooth, ash-coloured bark. Branches nume- 

 rous, twining, very extensive; young shoots clothed with short, white 

 depressed hairs. — Leaves pelioled, round-co; date, with the margin 

 waved, emarginate, both sides clothed with short hair; veins almost 

 simple and parallel; length from two to four inches, the breadth 

 nearly equal to the length. — Petioles round, shorter than the leaves, 

 hairy ; an obscure green gland on each side of the apex. — Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, longer than the petioles, round, hairy, dichotomous ; 

 each division bearing one, two, or three large rose-coloured flowers, 

 with one in the fork. — Bractes several, cuneate, hairy. — Calyx; 

 leaflets ovd, obtuse. — Corol, tube somewhat gibbous, a little hairy 

 on the outside. — Sligma of two round lobes. — Berry spherical, 

 smooth, size of a cherry, when ripe yellow, consisting of soft yellow 

 pulp, containing four large roundish, smooth white seeds. 



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