31* FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Pttederid, 



Convolvulus foetidus, Rumph. arnb. v. 436. t. 160. 



Apocynum foetidum, Burm. ind. p. 71. 



Is rather a rare plant, 1 have only found it in the vicinity of Cah 

 eutta, twinining up and over trees, &c. Flowering time the begin- 

 ning of the cold season. Its root is used by the Hindoos as an emetic. 



Stem ligneous, twining j young parts round, smooth. Leaves op- 

 posite, long-petioled, oblong-cordate, pretty smooth, entire. Stipules 

 broad-cordate. — Panicles axillary and terminal, brachiate. — Flowers 

 numerous, of a deep pink colour.— BraCtes ovate. — Caly x five-tooth- 

 ed.— Coroh Tube pretty long, somevt hat gibbous, inside woolly. Bot- 

 tier narrow, divided into five cordate, crenulate segments. — Filaments 

 short, inserted irregularly about the middle of the tube. Anthers 

 erect, within the tube. — Germ inferior, turbinate, two-celled ; cells 

 containing one ovuttim each, attached to the bottom of the cell. Stylf 

 single. Stigma two-cleft; segments various, bent amongst the an« 

 thers. — Berry dry, compressed, sniooih, with five lines on each side; 

 one-celled, two-seeded. — Seeds compiessed, smooth, enlarged with 

 a somewhat membranaceous ring all round.— Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, but scanty. — Embryo large, erect. Cotyledons round, cordate. 

 Radicle short, inferior. 



Obs. by Ni TV. 



This is a very common shrub in Nipal, blossoming during the 

 rainy season, and ripening its fruit in December. It is also found at 

 Sifhet.* — Mr. Porter lias communicated wild specimens from Pe* 

 nang. — The leaves vary much in figure and size. — N. W. 



fi. P. recurta, R. 



Shrubby. Leaves lanceolar, acuminate. Corymbs terminal, xe< 

 curved. 



A slender shrubby species; a native of Chittagong, where it is 

 chiefly found in moist situations amongst the hills, flowering in the 

 toot season. The seeds ripen in October and November. 

 * It is found in the North of Be D gal. Ed, 



