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62. C02TY OLVUL ACEiE . 
No sp. of Ipojlea L., Chois, proper (artificially and imperfectly 
defined by its capitate mostly 2-lobed stigma, 2-celled 4-ovu- 
late ov. and 2-celled 4-seeded caps.) is found wild or even 
naturalized in Mad. : but several occur in gardens — as occa- 
sionally, spreading thickly over arbours, walls or trellises, I. 
tuberosa L. (Bot. Beg. t. 768\ a large twining shr. with a 
tuberous root, palmate I. bright y. fl. and very large seeds 
and caps., and more frequently the lovely I. rubro-ccerulea 
Hook, in BM. t. 3297, a tall stout twining ann. pi. with cor- 
date 1., and fl. (in Mad. always) of the purest imaginable sky 
blue, without a tinge of red or purple. 
4. CoxvoLYTJLrs L., Chois. 
§ 1. St. not twining — Orthocaulos Don. 
(a) Herbaceous ; root and st. ann. 
t+1. C. tricolor L. 
Hairy-pubescent or subvillous; st. pale suberect ascending 
or diffuse, villous upwards ; 1. sessile oblong-lanceolate or ob- 
long-spathulate pubescent ciliate especially towards the base ; 
ped. 1-fld. 2-bracteate mostly longer than the 1. spreading and 
flexuous in fr. ; sep. ovate or oblong-lanceolate hairy or villous ; 
cor. 3 or 4 times the length of sep. b., throat v., tube w. ; caps, 
villous. — Linn. Sp. 225 ; Lam. Diet. iii. 548 ; BM. t. 27 ; Desf. 
i. 175; Brot. i. 268 (excl. var.) ; Pers. i. 182; Hort. Kew. 
(ed. 2) i. 337 ; Spr. i. 610 ; DC. ix. 405 ; Coss. et Germ. i. 259 ; 
Gren. et Godr. ii. 502; Willk. et Lange ii. 517. C. longifolius 
See. Barr. Ic. p. 4. nos. 28, 29, tt. 321, 322. C. peregriuus. 
caruleus , folio oblongo Sec. Moris. Hist. ii. 17, t. 4. § 1. f. 4. — 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, rr. Vineyards and waste ground about 
Funchal here and there occasionally ; below the Quinta do 
Valle ; along the road to S. Antonio opposite the Q ta das 
Maravilhas, &c. May, June. — St. hard stiff subflexuous one or 
many from the root, pale gr. often straw-colour or whitish, 1- 
2 ft. long. L. rather dark or full gr., 1-14 in. long, 4—6 lines 
broad, often subundulate at the edges, fringed with long w. soft 
fine hairs. Ped. in fl. about an inch, in fr. 1£ in. long. Br. 2 
minute linear, opposite in fl., alternate and subremote in fr. 
Sep. subcoherent or close-pressed into a pale obovate-oblong or 
half-obovoidal tube for about frds upwards from their base, 
their limb gr. leafy half-ovate spreading ciliate like the I. Cor. 
1-2 in. in diam., mostly sky-b. with the mouth w. and throat 
bright y. in 5 rays; but sometimes (though not observed in 
Mad.) the b. is changed into dark v., or the whole fl. except 
the throat becomes pure w. Slam, subequal rising with the 
stigmas quite out of the throat; antli. -lobes each with 2 lon- 
gitudinal dark v. streaks in the b. or v. -coloured fl. ; fil. smooth y. 
