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2. PEDALIUM, Royen. 



1. P MuREX, Linn. sp. 892.^A low annual succulent herb ; 

 leaves petioled, oval, inciso-dentate, obtuse, a little cuneate at the 

 base ; pedicels axillary, 1 -flowered, shorter than the petiole, 

 without bracts ; flowers yellow ; fruit corky, with 4 conical spines, 

 from the base. The fruit is sold in the bazars under the name of 

 Gokroo ; it is mucilaginous, and the leaves infused in water render 

 it mucilaginous. On the sandy shores of Kattywar, and Deccan. 



. XCVI. CONVOLVULACE^. 



1. EVOLVULUS, Linn. 



1, HiRSDTUs, Lam. Encycl. iii, 638. — A very small herbaceous 

 plant, cespitose procumbent, covered with adpressed hairs ; leaves 

 ovate-oblong, subsessile, less than half an inch long ; peduncles 

 1-flowered, as long as the leaf or longer; flowers of a beautiful 

 deep blue, very small. Common everywhere in grassy places. 



2. CRESSA, Linn. 



1. Cretica, Linn. sp. 325. — A very small, shrubby, diffuse 

 plant ; leaves ovate-sessile, very small, acute, numerous, ashy or 

 hoary pubescent; flowers small, white or pink, subsessile, in the 

 superior axils, forming a many-flowered head. Very common in 

 cultivated fields in the cold weather. Sibth. Fl Grae. t. 256 ; 

 Syn. C humifusa, Lam. Encycl. ; Quamoclit minima, Tournef. ; 

 C indica, Retz. Obs. iv, p 24 ; C australis, Br. Prod. Fl nov. 

 Holl., &c. &c. 



3. BREWERIA, R. Br. 



1. RoxBURGHii, Chois. DC. Prod. 9, p 438. — Stem twining, 

 branched ; branchlets rusty-coloured ; leaves ovate-cordate, sub- 

 acuminate, long-petioled, ferruginous ; peduncles 3, many-flowered, 

 scarcely so long as the petiole ; flowers white, pretty large. ' Near 

 Vingorla; flowers' in October and November. Syn. Convolvulus 

 semidigynus, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 47, ed. Wall; Wight. Ic. 



4. PORANA, Burm. 



L Racemosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 566.— Herbaceous, climbing 

 to a great height ; leaves cordate, acuminate, glabrous or pube- 

 scent, long-petioled ; panicles racemose, leafy, few-flowered ; calyx 

 increasing with the fruit, becoming scariose ; corol white, tubular, 

 small, Mahableshwur and the higher Ghauts ; common. Native 



