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1 -2-celled, cells 1-2-ovulate. Caps. 2 distinct, 1-2-celled, 1 or 
2-4-seeded. — Small herbaceous creeping- or procumbent pi. 
tf6. Diciiondra. Cal. 5-partite or sub-5-sepalous. Cor. 
5-partite rotate or sub-5-petalous. Ov. 2 distinct 2-ovu- 
late ; styles 2 distinct ; stigmas capitate or clavate subtri- 
iobed. Caps. 2 (rarely by abortion 1) distinct binate 
forming a bladdery double globe connected only at the 
base, each 1-celled indehiscent and 1- or rarely 2-seeded. 
— Minute cespitose leafy herbs with creeping st., orbicular 
undivided long-stalked 1., and small inconspicuous ti. on 
short hooked or deflexed axillary 1-fld. ped. 
Tribe I. Convolvidece . 
tfl. Quamoclitia Tourn., Chois, 
ttl. Q. COCCINEA (L.). 
Glabrescent; 1. cordate-acuminate entire repand or angular 
at the base ; peck loosely many-fld. longer than the petioles ; 
sep. aristate subequal. — Quamoclit coccinea Chois, in DC. ix. 
335. Ipomcea coccinea Linn. Sp. 228 ; BM. t. 221 ; Poir. in 
Lam. Diet. vi. 12; Pers. i. 183; Hort. Kew. (eel 2) i. 338; 
Griseb. W. I. FI. 472. Convolvulus coccineus et C. luteolus Spr. 
Syst. i. 599. — Ann. herb. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. Formerly (182(5- 
1832) quite naturalized in Batata-fields below and about the 
Quinta do Valle, Funchal ; but it seems now to have disap- 
peared there altogether. Aug., Sept. — A small delicate short- 
lived ph, not lasting above a month or two, with light gr. thin 
flaccid 1. and small but pretty tubular salver-shaped bright or.-r. 
or scarlet fl. St. not more than 12-15 in. long slender or fili- 
form twining. L. about 3 in. long, 2 broad. Fl. about 1 in. 
long, limb f in. in diam. 
Q. pennata (Desr.)=<2- vulgaris Chois, in DC . = Ipomcea, Quamo- 
clit L., BM. t. 244= Convolv. pennata Desr. in Lam. Diet. = 
C. Quamoclit Spr. with 1-fld. ped., crimson fl. and remarkable 
pectinately pinnatipartite foliage, occurs also occasionally in 
gardens about Funchal. 
t++2. Batata Humph., Chois. 
tttl- B. edttlis (Thunb.). Sweet Potato. Batata Mad. ; Ba- 
tata doce Lisbon. 
Roots tuberiferous ; st. prostrate or procumbent trailing sar- 
mentose, not twining; 1. heteromorphous simply cordate or cor- 
dately or hastately deltoidal, entire, angular, or 3-5-7-lobed, 
stalked, smooth on both sides ; cymes axillary many-fld. stalked, 
about as long as the 1., fl. congested shortly pedicelled; sep. shortly 
