Ipomoea. fentandria monogynia. 87 



cylindric tube, from two to three inches long, border about four 

 inches in diameter. — Flowers hairy at the base. Anthers within.— 

 Germ four-celled, four-seeded. Stigma of two linear-oblong lobes. 

 — Berry oblong, shorter than the calyx, smooth, pointed, one-celled. 

 — Seeds from one to four, (one is most common), enveloped iu a 

 little mealy pulp. — Perisperm and embryo as in the order. 



IPOMOEA. 



Calyx five-leaved, (or five parted). Corol funnel-shaped. Stigma 

 two-lobed. Capsules two-celled, cells two-seeded. 



1. 1. grandiflora, R. 



Perennial, twining, sometimes murexed. Leaves cordate, rare- 

 ly lobate, acute, smooth. Peduncles length of the petioles, three- 

 flowered. Stigma of two round lobes. Capsules two-celled. 



Munda-Valli, Rheed. Mai. xi. 103. t. 50. 



Convolvulus grandiflorus, Linn, suppl. plant, 1 36. 



Munda-valli, Asiat. Res. iv. 257. 



Sens. Doodi\a-Kuhm. 



Ipomoea bona-nox. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 



Convolvulus maximus, Sloari. Jam. QQ.f. 1. is most likely this 

 plant for I have reared it in Bengal from seed received from the 

 West Indies with that name. The only difference is that the leaves 

 of the West Indian plant are rather more angular, and like Sloanes 

 figure, than those of the East Indian one. 



A large, twining species, common in hedges near Samulkota, and 

 in Bengal, and on the banks of water courses amongst bushes . Flow- 

 ers during the cold season in the Circars, and in Bengal during the 

 hot and rainy seasons. 



Stem twining, running to the height of from ten to twenty feet, 

 smooth, except that it is sometimes armed with small inoffensive 

 prickles,~-X,eai , es scattered, petioled, cordate, pointed, generally 



