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CONVOLVULWUS suffruticosus., 
Shrubby Madeira Bindweed. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Coxvorvuri. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. Stylus unicus. 
Convotyunace®. Brown prod. 481. Sect. J. Ger- 
men unicum, ro 
CONVOLVULUS,. Cal. 5-partitus, nudus, v. bracteis 2 mino- 
ribus imbricatus, persistens. Cor. 1-petala, hypogyna, regularis, cam 
panulata, 5-plicata, limbo 5-lobo, decidua. Stam. ime corolla inserta, 
ejusdem laciniis alterna, limbo breviora. Germ, 2-loc. (rard 3-luc. ?), 
loculis dispermis; basi cinctum glandula annulari. Stylus indivisus. 
Stig. 2, filiformia. Cups. valvata, valvis margine appositis angulis dissepi- 
menti liberi basi seminiferi. Herbe (rard frutices) volubiles 0. prostrate, 
sepius lactescentes. Folia alterna, exstipulata. Brown prod. 481, 482. 
\ Div. Caule volubili. 
C. suffruticosus, foliis oblongis subcordatis acutis, caule suffruticoso 
levi, pedunculis trifloris muluflorisque. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 
* 2.1. 331. 
Ons. Omnino diversus 4 Convolvulo suffruticoso Desf. Jl. atl. et Per- 
soon syn. qui species non volubilis. 
Caulis teres, viridi-fuscescens, ramosus, conspersus lanugine raraé atque 
via manifesta. Folia saturate viridia, oblongo-cordata, acuminata, utrinque 
[supra appressé] subvillosa, infra varicoso-nervosa, longiora triuncialia :- peti= 
olus Sento brevior, villosus. Pedunculi azillares, villosuli, superantes petion 
lum, breviores folio, sepits trichotomo-triflori, sub trichotomid bibracteati, 
nunc divisi ultra atque multiflori. Cal. tripla brevior corolla, herbaceus, venosus ¢ 
JSoliola superné patentia lata cum brevi acumine et ciliata. Cor. tota quanta 
usque ad calycem rotato-dispansa, uncias. fere binas transversa, alba, Wy asetccrs 
in disco, ad plicas linets 5 purpureis aliis totidem externis villoso-lanceolatis 
respondentibus radiata, obsolete Begonia, 5-quies emarginata: junior involuta 
tota extis sericeo-hirsuta. Stam. duplo ultrave brevioria coral Jasciculatay 
nee barbata: anth. sagittato-lineares, ochroleuce. Germ. pyramidatum, 
albicans, glabrum : stylus bisulco-filiformis ( Agee ex duobus conferruminatus ), 
apice breve bicruris ; stig. 2 filiformia, albida, cruribus styli pedicellata. 
A species introduced from the island of Madeira by Mr. 
Masson in 1788; but does not appear in the first Hortus 
Kewensis, and is only recorded in the late edition of that 
work. It affords a very decisive sample of the difference 
of the stigma of its genus and that of Ipomaa, now the 
main point of distinction between the two, as has already 
been noticed in the sixty-second article of this work. It 
is also an instance, among numerous others, by which we 
see the herbaceous genera of the colder climates assuming 
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