completely expanded, had dropped off in the way to town, 
and could not be represented in the present figure. 
The species is native of the East Indies. There is like- 
wise a specimen of it in the Banksian Herbarium, from 
Otaheite. Mr. Brown having noticed a slight difference in 
the New Holland plant he has ranked under the present 
title, we have subjoined it in the synomyny, as the variety (6. 
until experience, or comparison between the living plants, 
has proved their identity. 
_ A perennial plant, except at the corolla loosely furred 
with a soft whitish pubescence. Leaves soft, green, mucro- 
nate, upper ones oftenest oblongly cordate, angular, on each 
side of the lower part repandly indented, lower ones ovately 
or broadly cordate, with horizontally branched nerves, two 
or three times longer than the petiole. Peduncles several- 
flowered, more roughly villous than any other part of the 
plant, shorter than the leaf. Calyx large, membranous, 
sericeously downy, whitish, sprinkled over in our specimen 
with dots; leaflets elliptic, pointed, two outer ones largest, 
about three fourths of an inch, or thereabout, high. Bractes 
large, of the same colour and substance as the leaflets of the 
calyx, caducous, placed below the flowers or at the base of 
the peduncles. Corolla white; segments rounded. Stigma 
capitate. 
Hermann speaks of the roots as woody, and as being of 
the thickness of the thumb, and says that they descend to 
the depth of three or four yards into the ground. He found 
the plant abundantly in wet shady places, at the sides of 
ditches, behind garden hedges and such-like places at some 
distance from the sea, both in the Island of Ceylon and on 
the coast of Malabar; and describes the flowers as of the 
size of the common Bind-weed. 
