999, 
CON VOLVULUS pudibundus. 
Various-leaved Convolvulus major. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
- Nat. ord. Gonranerncrn! 
CONVOLVULUS. Supra, vol. 2. fol. 133. 
C, pudibundus ; foliis cordatis integris, trilobisque acuminatis glabris, pe- 
dunculis multifloris sepalisque ovatis acutis subfoliaceis glabris, corollee 
tubo inflato limbo 5-dentato longiore. 4 
‘Caulis annuus, volubilis, teres, glaber, ut et omnes partes, st pubem 
aliquam levem in ramulis novellis exctpias. Folia glabra, nunc triloba, 
bast alté cordata, acuminata, nunc integra, subrotundo-cordata, acuminata. 
Pedunculi multiflori, petiolis breviores. Calyces foliacet, glabri, sepalis 
corolld multd brevioribus. Corolla pulcherrime rosea, tubo subcylindrico 
inflato, limbo patente 5-dentato, tubo breviore. Stigma capitatum, bilobum, 
staminibus fere equale. 
Nearly related to C. purpureus, the Convolvulus major 
of the gardens, from which it differs in having some of its 
leaves deeply 3-lobed, in its general smoothness, in the 
proportion between the limb and the tube of the flower, 
and in the absence of all hispidity from the base of the 
calyx. 
Said to be a native of South America. Received from 
the Botanic Garden of St. Vincent’s, by the Comte de 
Vandes. Requires to be raised in a hot-bed in the spring, 
and planted out during the summer with other tender 
annuals. 
We trust that no apology is necessary for our having 
adopted the opinion that Ipomea and Convolvulus are not 
generically distinguishable, as at present constituted. But 
in admitting the propriety of this measure, it is necessary 
