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62. CONY 0LVT7L ACEiE. 
extreme shortness of the pedicel, indicate an approach to Caly- 
stegia. 
The closely allied C. elongatus Willd., Bot. Reg. t. 498, WB. 
iii. 24 (C. pseudosiculus CaY. DC. ix. 407), with 2-3-fld. ped. 
longer than the 1., distinctly pedicelled w. fl. and filiform br. 
remote from the cal., occurs in the Canaries but has not been 
found in Mad. 
( b ) Herbaceous; root per., st. ann, 
3. C. aryexsis L. Corriola. 
St. prostrate or tanning, spirally striate and angular; 1. 
shortly stalked sagittate or hastate oblong mostly obtuse and 
mucronulate, the basal lobes acute; ped. mostly 1-2-fld., 2-1- 
bracteolate at top, br. minute linear remote from the fl., shorter 
than the pedic. ; sep. oxal or broadly obovate very obtuse ; cor. 
p. and w. : caps, smooth 2-celled. — Linn. Sp. 218 ; Till. Dauph. 
ii. 484; Lam. Diet. iii. 540; Desf. i. 172; Fl. Dan. t. 459; 
EB. t. 312 ; Brot. i. 267 ; Pers. i. 177 ; Ait. Ilort. Ivew. i. 327 ; 
Buch 193. no. 200; Hook. Fl. Sc. i. 73; Sm. E. Fl. i. 284; 
Spr. i. 603 ; Koch 569 ; Seub. Fl. Az. 38 ; DC. ix. 406 ; WB. 
iii. 22 ; Coss. et Germ. 259; Gren. et Godr. iii. 500 ; Bab. 224; 
Willk. et Lange ii. 518. C. vulgaris minor arvensis &c. Moris. 
Hist. ii. 13, tab. 3. § 1. f. 9. — Herb. per. Mad. and PS. reg. 1, 
2, cc; not seen in the Desertas. Cornfields, vineyards and 
waste ground by roadsides &c. almost everywhere, especially 
near the sea. M arcli-Oct. — Roots w. slender running exten- 
sively and penetrating deep into the ground. Whole pi. mostly 
smooth, but sometimes very pubescent. St. slender wiry an- 
gular spirally twisted but only occasionally twining, 6 in.-2 ft. 
long leafy sparingly branched. Foliage dull gr. ; 1. 1-1 £ in. 
long, A-l in. broad ; petioles 2-5 lines long. Ped. slender about 
1 in. long, 1-3-fld. Pedic. 3-4 lines long; br. about 2 lines, 
both always puberulous. Fl. conspicuous and elegant, f-1 in. 
in diam., sometimes pure w. but mostly more or less, rarely 
altogether, rose-p. with 5 deeper-coloured rays, slightly fragrant 
with the smell of bitter almonds. Style of moderate length, 
fine and slender ; stigmas filiform almost as long as the style. 
“ Caps, ovoidal acute smooth. . . . Seeds black scaly ” (Gr. 
et Godr.). 
4. C. ALTHiEOLDES L. Corriola. 
WFole pi. more or less hispid-pubescent, often silky-hoary, 
sometimes silvery; st. elongate procumbent or diffuse climbing 
or partly twining; lower 1. undivided ovate-oblong or deltoidal 
sagittato-cordate obtuse irregularly crenate, upper deeply 5-7- 
pedate or palmate, the middlo lobe produced inciso-lobed or 
