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62. C0NY0LVULACE.E. 
subsagittate or obliquely truncate, 1-2 in. long, f-l^ broad (in 
English spec, often Sin. X 4). Petioles slender 1-1| in. long. 
(The following from English spec.) 
Ped. 1-fld. round or angular, 1^-2 in. long. Br. 6-8 lines long 
tumid or inflated and bladdery erect and closely embracing and 
quite concealing the sep. and base of cor.-tube, broadly cordate, 
very obtuse in th, subacute in fir., light gr. with membranous 
thin purplish edges, persistent and finally in the ripe fr. pale 
brown and scarious. Sep. lanceolate equal, 4 in. long, 1^-2 lines 
broad, thin membranous very pale gr. and shining. Cor. pure 
w. tubular-campanulate, i. e. with the tube longer than usual in 
proportion to the limb which is distinctly 5-angular with the 
edges reflexed or revolute and 2-2^ in. in diain., the tube rising 
an inch at least above the br. and smooth inside. Stain, and 
stvle w. not reaching to the throat or shorter than cor.-tube, 
style longer than the stam., smooth, splitting at the base m fr. 
into 2 parts ; fil. furry or glandular-pubescent, broadly dilated 
and flattened downwards ; anthers and pollen w. ; stigmas 2 w. 
erect and closely parallel but distinct, narrow-oblong and flat- 
tened inside or lialf-clavate, coarsely granulate or scaly. Nectary 
a thick tumidly 5-angular y. cup. Ov. small smooth and shi- 
ning pale yellowish mostly abortive. Caps, rarely perfected hard 
pale brown globosely ovate or ovoidal tipped with the 2-cleft or 
2-partite base of the style and completely enclosed in the dry 
scarious persistent cal. -hr., about 4 lines in diarn., smooth out- 
side, puberulous within, 1-celled or imperfectly 2-celled down- 
wards, 4-seeded but 1 or 2 only of the seeds perfected and then 
large ovoidal irregularly angular, about 2 lines in diam., quite 
smooth and even, dark blackish brown ; the rest minute abor- 
tive. 
2. C. SoLDAXELLA (L.). 
Succulent smooth not twining; roots per. creeping; st. ann. 
prostrate or procumbent ; 1. a little fleshy orbicularly reniform 
or cordate mostly very obtuse or refuse and entire rarely sub- 
acute and repandly angular ; ped. 1-fld. as long as or longer than 
the 1. 3-4-angular thickened upwards ; br. broadly oval or ovate- 
oblong, rather shorter than and not quite concealing the cal. ; 
sep. equal ovate-oblong or oval ; cor. large rose-p. or purple with 
5 pale yellowish plaits or rays. — Chois, in DC. ix. 433 ; Willk. 
et Lange ii. 519. Convolvulus Soldanella Linn. Sp. 226; Lam. 
Diet. iii. 549 j KB. t. 314 ; Desk i. 17(5; Brot. i. 268; Pers. i. 
182; Ait. llort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 337 ; Ilook. FI. Sc. i. 74; Sm. 
E. FI. i. 285 ; Spr. i. 609 ; Koch 569 (11. albis) ; (Iron, et Godr. 
ii. 500; Bab. 225. Conv. marinus noster rotundifolius nobis, 
Brassicn marina Matth., &c., Moris. I list. ii. 11, t. 3. § 1. f. 2. — 
I lerb. per. PS. r«>g. 1, cc. Sandy sea-beach and sand-hills close 
behind it, near the town and to the eastward. May, June.— 
