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crenate ; petioles slender, of lower 1. long, of upper sliort ; ped. 
erect straight slender much longer than the 1., 1-2-fld., 2-brac- 
teolate at base of pedic. a little below the fl., br. minute linear- 
filiform; pedic. distinct moderately long; fl. large conspicuous; 
sep. elliptic-oblong acute glabrescent ; cor. broadly campanulate 
widely patent purplish p. or rose; stigmas not overtopping the 
anth. ; caps, elliptic-oblong smooth. — Linn. Sp. 222 ; Lam. 
Diet. iii. -364 ; BM. t. 359 ; Desf. i. 173 ; Brot. i. 268 ; Pers. i. 
179; Fl. Gr. t. 194; Hort. Kew. (ed. 1) i. 333; Buch 193. 
no. 203 ; Spr. i. 591 ; WB. iii. 24; DC. ix. 409 ; Gren. et Godr. 
ii. 501 ; YVillk. et Lange ii. 519. C. argyreus DC. Fl. Fr. 
“Suppl. 423 ” (a mere extreme silvery-silky state) . C.tenu- 
issimus Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Gr. t. 195 ; Spr. i. 591 ; Koch 569. 
C. aiihceoides rj. pedatus DC. 1. c. Convolvulus betoniece althce- 
ceque fol. repens argenteusji. purp. Barr. Icon. 312. C. argenteus 
Althcece folio &c., Moris. Hist. ii. 13, tab. 3. § 1. f. 10. 
(3. virescens ; greener and less hispid, 1. more broadly and less 
deeply or distinctly lobed or divided. — C. aiihceoides y. hirsutus 
Chois, in DC. 1. c. C.Jlexuosus Sol. MSS. and BH. ! Buch ! 193. 
no. 202. C. bryonicefolius Sims, in BM. t. 943 ; Willd. Enum. 
205 ; Lam. Diet. Suppl. iii. 464 and 473. C. hirsutus Ten. Fl. 
Nap. i. 60, 1. 15. — Mad. everywhere about Funchal &c., up to 
1000 ft. March-June. Scarcely more than an early stage of 
the pi. or as growingunder shade or shelter. — Herb. per. Mad., 
PS., reg. 1,2, ccc. Sunny banks and rocky ground everywhere 
chiefly from the sea up to 1000 ft. All along the Cani^o road 
amongst Cacti &c. for the first 2 miles out of Funchal ; P ta de 
S. Lourenco at the Piedade &c. Marcli-Sept. — Boot w. hard 
tough slender penetrating deep into the ground. Whole pi. pale 
dull gr., becoming more or less silvery-grey or hoary as the 
summer advances or in exposed hot dry sunny places. St. 
2-4 ft. long straight or slightly flexuous somewhat hard or wiry 
round obsoletely striate pubescent, the ends mostly twining. 
Petioles of lower 1. 1-2 in. long, of upper |--j in., all pubescent. 
L. about 1 in. long and |-f broad, varying from light gr. to 
silvery-grey or silky-hoary, and from broad and, shallow to 
narrow-linear deeply cut divisions, the upper pedate with the 
lobes divaricate and the middle one produced.. Ped. about 2 in. 
long ; braotlets about 2 lines, very fine and narrow-linear or 
filiform. Pedic. 2-3 or 4 lines long pubescent like the ped. and 
petioles, but more densely. Sep. oval-oblong or elliptic 4 lines 
long, the inner blunt, the outer acute hairy-pubescent. Cor. 
bright purplish p. or rose of various intensity, the throat darker, 
1 in. long, 1^-2 in. in diam. Stam. and stigmas scarcely rising 
out of the throat. Anthers dark vinous-purple blackish. Stigmas 
and upper part of style and fil. crimson, the former divaricate 
filiform 3-4 mill. long. Ov. style and fil. smooth. Nectary cup- 
