84 FENTANDRIA M0JfOfl\NlA. LtttSOtnia. 



Sect. 2d. Corol inJundibuUform. 



10. L. bona nox, R. 



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

 flowered, stigma of two cylindric lobes. Berry dry, ovate-oblong, 

 one-celled, from one to four-seeded. ^ 



Beng. Kulrm-l'uta. 



Clove-scented creeper, Asiat. Res. iv. 257. 



Midnapore creeper, its common English name. 



Ipomoea bona-nox, Gaert. carp, ii.247. t. 134, agrees better with 

 the seed vessel of convolvulus nervosus, Burm. than of this species. 



A native of the forests of Midnapore in Bengal; flowers during 

 the rains. Setd ripe in November, December, and January. 



Stem stout, in old plants as thick as a man's arm, covered with 

 spongy, cracked, dull ash-coloured bark.' Branches and branchlets 

 twining up and over large trees, to a great extent ; tender shoots 

 somewhat hairy. — Leaves long-petioled, round, and round-cordate, 

 entire, bristle-pointed, though obtuse, or even emarginate ; some- 

 what villous, particularly underneath, and there, while young, hoary ; 

 length from three to six inches ; breadth nearly the same. — Petioles 

 of various length, round, villous, with a dark-coloured gland on each 

 side of the apex. — Peduncles axillary, solitary, generally shorter than 

 the petioles, three-flowered, though frequently one of the three, or 

 even two of them, are abortive. — Florcers short-pedicelled, large, 

 pure white, expanding at sun set, and perfuming the air to a consi- 

 derable distance with a fragrance resembling that of the finest cloves. 

 in fact it is the Prince of the Convolvulacea. — Bractes sub-lanceo- 

 late, thiee to each of the lateral flowers. — Calycine leaflets ovate-cor- 

 date, obtuse, a little hairv. — Coiol ; Tube cylindric. Border ample 

 and nearly entire.— -Filaments woolly at the base.— Germ surrounded 

 with a yellow nectarial ring, ovale, four-celled, with one ovulum in 

 each cell, attached to its lower, inner, augle. Stigma composed of 

 two distinct, cylindric, glandular lobes.-- Berry dry, smooth, shin- 



