38 
os oes in Phil. Mag. (Apr. 1832. 
n Guill. Arch. 2. gr Sia : 
Bot. H t. 873. in Da nn. S 
much narri 
inside at the aie so that Lessing’s cha- 
racter of the 
ria- 
sg pai pi ‘but more resembli ing 
assauvia. e are ag OE; with 
. Macrae and Mr. 
u All se species, as we have 
limited” the genus, are annuals, 
(To be continued.) 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN 
: BOTANY. 
“By Dr. Wight & G. A. Wi Arnott, Esq. 
( Continued from p. 21.) 
ARGYREIA BRACTEATA. 
Tas. III. 
PENTANDRIA Monocynia.—Nat. Ord. 
ONYOLVULACEJE. 
Gey. Can. Sepala 5. Corolla campa- 
nulata. Stylus l. Stigma capitatum, 
bilobum. Ovarium 2-loculare, 4-sper- 
mum. Capsula baccata.—Plantm ve- 
is aspectu plereque spectabiles, 
€ gen C@, ser ic ec, tor nentose, 
Omnes Indice aut Chinenses 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
Argyreia bracteata ; caule scandente seri- 
ceo-strigoso, foliis cordato-rotundis basi 
truncatis supra glabris inferne sericeo- 
hirsutis strigosis, pedunculis petiolos 
superantibus cymoso-multifloris, bracteis 
lanceolatis cymam ambientibus, sepalis 
ovatis acutiusculis—Chois. Conv. In 
Wall. Cat. n. 1419. A. Con- 
volvulus pomaceus ? eis — Ipomea 
bracteata, Herb. He 
DESCR large iie branched, 
milky shrub, the young shoots strigose. 
Leaves alternate, on long petioles, which 
are round, and furnished at the base with 
two thick oblong glands: mb broadly 
cordato-ovate, rather acute, entire, glabrous, 
dark shining green above, beneath stri- 
gosely hirsute, and somewhat silky. Pe- 
duncles axillary, rather longer than the 
petioles, dividing at the extremity into two 
or three branches, with a sessile ebracteated 
wer in the fork; each branch divides 
again in the same manner: the solitary 
flower in the second and all succeeding 
divisions, furnished with a long, lanceolate, 
waved, pale-green, hairy bractea. In this 
i 
ag. manner, what was at first an umbel, pro- 
|. gressively becomes a panicle, bearing 
flowers and fruit in all stages, each of the 
pedicelled flowers having three bracteas 
closely appressed to the base of the calyx. 
Calyz of five ovate and mucronate hairy 
sepals. Corolla campanulate, externally 
hairy, of a purplish-white colour; within, 
near the bottom, deep-purple, becoming 
paler near the throat: lm spreading, 
cream-coloured. Stamens five: filaments 
unequal, enlarged at the base : the enlarged 
portion thickly covered with viscid, glan- 
dular hairs. Anthers linear-oblong, deeply 
cordate at the base. Ovary superior, 
seated in a yellow glandular cup-shaped 
nectary. Style as long as the stamens. 
Stigma two-lobed. Pericarp a three to 
four. berry, deep orange-coloured 
when ripe. Seeds imbedded in pulp. 
This fine species is frequent in the 
neighbourhood of Madras, and is usually 
seen growing in sandy soil, twining most 
A e ruens ote 
and concealing them with its large umbra- 
