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CONVOLVTTLACEifi. 
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the calyx, purplish-white, fugacious, \ in. broad when expanded. 
Capsule glabrous, the size of a pea glabrous within, 4-seeded. Convol- 
vulus capitatus, Desr. in Lam. Encyc. iii. 544. Ipomcea capitata, Ghoisy 
in DC. Prod. ix. 365. 
Mauritius, in waste ground, Telfair ! Through Tropical Africa. 
5. DICHONDRA, Forst. 
Sepals 5, free, oblanceolate, obtuse. Corolla smaller than the calyx, 
5-fid, cainpanulate. Stamens 5 ; filaments short, filiform. Carpels 2, 
distinct, subglobose ; styles distinct, short, subulate ; stigmas capitate. 
Capsules 2, small, globose, membranous, 1-seeded.- — Small prostrate 
herbs with minute flowers in the axils of the leaves. Distbib. Round 
the world in warmer regions. Species 4 or 5. 
1. D. repens, Forst . ; Choisyin DC. Prod. ix. 451. A perennial, with 
slender wide-trailing stems. Leaves 1-3 from a node, entire, cordate- 
reniform, finely silky, ^—1 in. broad ; petiole 1-3 in. long. Flowers 1-2 
from a node, on pedicels shorter than the petioles. Sepals finally 
in. long. Corolla minute, yellowish. Capsules pilose, T V in. thick. 
Seeds solitary, with a smooth black testa. Lam. III. t. 183. 
Mauritius, on the slopes of the Pouce and Trois Mamelles, and a form with 
very small in. broad) leaves densely white-silky below gathered by Dr. Balfour 
in Rodriguez on the patches of coralline limestone at the S. W. end of the island. 
Cosmopolitan in sub-tropical regions. 
Order LXVI. SOLANACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior, rotate, funnel- shaped 
or campanulate, with 5 long or short teeth. Corolla shallowly or deeply 
5-lobed, rotate or campanulate. Stamens 5 ; filaments inserted in the 
corolla- tube alternate with the lobes ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by 
longitudinal slits or terminal pores. Ovary usually 2-celled ; placentation 
axile ; ovules numerous ; style single, filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit 
baccate or capsular. Seeds albuminous. — Herbs or shrubs, with alter- 
nate exstipulate leaves, the flowers axillary, solitary or cymose. 
Distbib. Cosmopolitan, mostly tropical. Species 1200. 
Fruit a berry. 
Anthers dehiscing by terminal pores 1. Solanum. 
Anthers dehiscing by slits. 
Calyx remaining small. 
Corolla rotate. 
Calyx toothed. Leaves pinnate * Lycopersicum. 
Calyx truncate. Leaves simple * Capsicum. 
Corolla deeply funnel-shaped Lycium. 
Calyx becoming large and bladdery. 
Ovary 2-celled. 
Herbs with solitary flowers * Physalis. 
Shrub with clustered flowers 3. Withania. 
Ovary 3-5 -celled * Nicandra. 
Fruit a capsule which slits into four valves * Datura. 
