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or subacuminate. Petioles slender, an inch long ; the upper- 
most or floral, and lowest, half an inch. Cymes produced chiefly 
on short erect thickly leafy side-branches but also along the long- 
new shoots, 3 or 4 in. long, with the 11. only just overtopping 
the 1. and much resembling those of C. arvemis L. Ped. round 
slender glabrescent, 1^-2^ in. long; pedic. a little thicker, 
f in. long. Cal. or sep. | in. long, their leafy spreading concave 
upper half 1 in. long and broad at the subauriculately plicate 
base, closely and distinctly nerved, acute ; the lower half closely 
imbricate forming a pale smooth even hard fleshy subscariose 
tube. Cor. 1 in. long, about 1^ in diam., w. or faintly tinged 
with very pale blush -p. or purple, with 5 broad and 5 narrow 
reddish-lilac or rose-purple streaks outside and the tlifoat y. 
Stam. as long as the 2 linear divaricate w. stigmas. Fil. and 
style smooth w. Caps, globosely ovate tipped with the per- 
sistent style and nearly concealed by the brown dry membranous 
or scarious enlarged spreading or partly reflexed sep., 8-10 mil- 
lim. high, 6-7 in diam., smooth, even, brown. 
The young shoots and petioles of 1. are sparingly milky ; the 
milk sweet and creamy or nutty, in taste. FI. mostly scentless 
but sometimes very slightly fragrant. 
5. Calystegia It. Br. 
tfl- C. sepium L. 
Smooth strongly twining ; roots per. creeping ; st. aim. exten- 
sively climbing twisted angular; 1. repandly or subangularly 
cordate or sagittate acuminate ; ped. 1- (rarely 2- )fld. ; br. large 
cordate very obtuse pale gr. inflated bladdery or submembranous; 
sep. equal lanceolate ; cor. rather large w. rarely blush or rose. 
— ■“ Br. Prodr. 483 ;” Chois, in DC. ix. 433 (excl. varr.) ; Coss. 
et Germ. 260 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 519 (excl. varr. (3 ). Convolv. 
Sepium Linn. Sp. 218 ; FI. i )an. t. 458 ; Vill. Dauph. ii. 484 ; 
Lam. Diet. iii. 539 ; 111. 450, t. 104. f. 1 ; EB. t. 313 ; Brot. i. 
268 ; Pers. i. 177 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 327 (excl. var. /3) ; 
Hook. FI. Sc. i. 74; Sm. E. FI. i. 284 ; Spr. i. 003 ; Koch 568 ; 
Seub. FI. Az. 38 (excl. var.) ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 500 ; Bab. 224. 
Conv. major albus vulg. &c. Moris, liist. ii. 12, tab. 3. § 1. 
f. 6. — Herb. per. Mad. reg. 2, rrr. Naturalized at the Livra- 
mento, an old Quinta a little to the right of the Mount road 
about halfway up. First found by Capt. Norman in 1866. “ FI. 
w. in July,'’ S r Moniz. — St. slender wiry hard tough twining 
sometimes to a considerable height, gr. * Roots w. brittle ana 
diflicult to extirpate, running both deep and far horizontally. 
Foliage copious, rather dark gr. L. dark gr. above, paler be- 
neath, thin or flaccid, cordate-acuminate, the basal lobes angular 
