plant of Kempfer, quoted by Thunberg as a synonym to 
his japonicus: But this of itself proves little; as we find 
Kempfer’s plants not unfrequently quoted rather too 
loosely in the synonymy of the above respectable and 
meritorious author. : 
Very lately introduced by Messrs. Whitley and Co. into 
their nursery at Fulham; where it was raised from seed 
received by the way of Berlin, from the botanic garden at 
Moscow, and is probably native of some of the parts of the 
Russian dominions which border upon the Chinese territory. 
- It'comes extremely close to our common Field-Bindweed (C. 
arvensis), but differs in the thicker substance, hastate form 
of the foliage, and larger deeper-coloured corolla. Quite 
hardy, and seems to have taken fast hold of the borders 
in the Fulham nursery by its vivacious creeping root. 
We do not believe it is in any other collection. The flower 
opens either in the night or betimes in the morning, and 
fades early in the forenoon. 
Perennial, 2-3 feet high. Root creeping. Leaves firm, 
subcoriaceous, greyish green, hastate, middle lobe elong- 
atedly oblong, somewhat tapered, blunt, with a small point, 
an inch or more long, side ones or auricles divaricate, short, 
quite entire: petiole linear, channelled, 3 times shorter than, 
the blade. Flowers at the upper part of the stem, axillary, 
solitary, pointing one way: peduncles spreading, sometimes ~ 
about two inches long: bractes 2, small opposite, linearly 
subulate, at a distance from the flower. Calyx greenish, 
cartilagineo-membranous, many times shorter than the co- 
rolla, nearly equal, scarcely % of an inch deep, imbricately 
connivent; leaflets obcordately oblong, elliptical, retuse, 
smooth. Corolla rotately funnelform; limb large, purplish 
crimson, marked in the disk with an unequally pointed pale 
yellow star surrounded by a purple radiant halo: tube the. 
length of the calyx; faux short. Stamens protruding be- 
yond the faux: filaments subulate, attached to the inner 
edge of the base of the tube, channelled inwards below, 
glandularly villous, 4 times longer than the anthers or more: 
anthers oblong, sagittate, narrow, blackish red at the sides. 
Germen small, conical, smooth, seated upon a thick roundish 
_ depressed far wider orange-coloured disk. 
