Jpomoea. pentandria monogynia. 91 



Peduncles axillary, length of the petioles, hairy, at all times erect, 

 from one to three-flowered. — Flowers pretty large; their colour when 

 they first expand early in the morning, is a beautiful lively pale blue, 

 or azure, gradually growing darker. — Bractes lanceolate, hairy. — 

 Calyx five-cleft ; segments ensiforrn, hairy, about half the length of 

 the tube of the corol. — Corol; Tube widening a little from the base, 

 paler than the undivided border.— Germ three-celled. Stigma 



three-lobed ; lobes round — Capsules smooth, three-celled, with two 

 smooth, black seeds in each. 



Obs. This, and I. c&rulea (probably I. hederacea of Jacquin,) 

 are exactly the same in the inflorescence, germ, stigma and capsules; 

 but they differ specifically. This being perennial, and having the 

 leaves constantly without any tendency to be lobate ; whereas that 

 is annual, with three-lobed leaves. I may farther add, that plants 

 raised from seed received from the Honourable Charles Greville, in 

 London, under the name Convolvulus hederaceus, differ only in the 

 colour of the flowers from my I. carulea, in which it is blue, and in 

 this, hederacea, white. 



7. I. Cicrulea, Kon. Mss.* 



Annual, twining, hairy. Leaves cordate, three-lobed, downy. 

 Peduncles from two to three-flowered, margins of the corol sub- 

 entire. Stigmas three-lobed. Capsules three-celled. 



Beng> Neel-kwlm/. 



It is common during the rains in most parts of India. 



Stems and branches twining, annual, round, hairy, from six to 

 twelve feet long, as thick as a crow quill. — Leaves alternate, petiol- 

 ed, broad. cordate, three-lobed, downy ; from two to four inches Ion?, 

 acute, &c. almost as in Dillenius's figures of Convolvulus Nil. — 

 Peduncles axillary, length of the petioles, round, hairy, from two to 

 three-flowered. — Bractes and leaflets of the calyx linear. — Flowers 

 large, of a beautiful light, but bright blue. — Stigma subglobuUr, 



• This, as the author hints above, is undoubtedly I- hederacea, Linn. I have 

 found it, though rarely, in the valley of Nipal, blossoming in May — N. W. 



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