212 
COJNTYOLVULACEiE. 
[ Ipomcca . 
4-vulved, naked within. Bot. Mag. t. 221 ; A ndr. Bot. Beg. t. 449. 
Quamoclit coccinea, angulata, and phoenicea, Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 
335-6. 
Mauritius ; roadsides at Pailles and Pamplemousses. Round the world in the 
tropics. Amourette a feuilles en cceur. 
* I. Quamoclit, Linn.; Bot. Mag. tab. 244, (Convolvulus pinnatus, 
Lam. ; Quamoclit vulgaris, Choisy ; Q. pinnata, Bojer), spread through 
the tropics of both hemispheres and well known in cultivation, is some- 
times subspontaneous in Mauritius. (Sieber, ii. 213 ! etc.) It is a 
glabrous annual climber, with slender stems, pinnate leaves with 
numerous parallel 1 -nerved very narrow leaflets, flowers 1-3 on long 
peduncles, sepals ^ in. long obtuse with a cusp, corolla bright red 
narrowly tubular an inch long with small spreading deltoid lobes and 
stamens exserted from the throat, capsule \ in. long naked within, 
4-valved. Amourette. 
3. CONVOLVULUS, Linn. 
Sepals 5, broad, imbricated. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped. 
Stamens 5, inserted low down in the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled, 
with 2 ovules in each cell ; style filiform ; stigmas 2, cylindrical. 
Fruit a small 2-celled capsule. — Twining or erect herbs, with flowers 
solitary or in cymes in the axils of the leaves. Distrib. Temperate and 
subtropical regions. Species about 150. 
1. C. arvensis, Linn. ; Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 406. A perennial 
herb, with slender tough twining glabrous or hairy stems. Leaves in 
our plant (C. auriculatus, Desr. in Lam. Encyc. iii. 540) linear-sagittate, 
with acute auricles. Peduncles 1-4-flowered ; bracts small, linear. 
Sepals oblong, obtuse, unequal. Corolla white or reddish, 1 in. broad 
at the throat. Capsule small, globose. 
Mauritius, in cultivated fields and by roadsides. Chiefly in the north temperate 
zone. 
4. JACQUEMONTIA, Choisy. 
Sepals 5, oblanceolate, free to the base. Corolla small, cam- 
panulate. Stamens included. Ovary 5-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style 
filiform ; stigmas two, flat, ovate-lamelliform. Fruit a small membra- 
nous dehiscent capsule. — Twining herbs, with leaves usually cordate 
and flowers in axillary cymes or clusters. Distrib. All but this one 
species out of 36 natives of Tropical America. 
1. J. capitata, G. Don , Gard. Diet. iv. 283. An annual climber, 
with slender finely pilose stems. Leaves simple, cordate-deltoid, acute, 
entire, membranous, 2-3 in. long ; petiole 1-2 in. long. Peduncles much 
longer than the petioles ; flowers in a dense globose head, bracteated 
by Wo large leaves and many smaller one. Sepals i in. long, lanceolate, 
densely clothed with strong brown hairs. Corolla rather longer than 
