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CONVOLVULUS pentanthus. 
| Jacquin’s East India Bindweed. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIZA. 
Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. I. 
CONVOLVULACEX. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect, I. 
CONVOLVULUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 133. 
Div. Caule voludili. 
C. pentanthus, caule yolubili fruticoso, foliis oblongo-cordatis acuminatis 
subrepandis glabris, pedunculis umbellatim subquinquefloris, floribus sub- 
sessilibus, calycibus ciliatis. Jacq. ic. rar. 2. 10. tab. 316. . 
Convolyulus pentanthus. Jacq. coll. 4.210. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 855. Poiret 
suppl. Lamarck encyc. 3. 468. 
Frutex caule ramisque teretibus glabris, Folia oblongo-cordata v. sub- 
ovata, acuminata, nervosa nervo medio laterales plurimos parallelos divari- 
cato-ascendentes utrinque emittente, subtus reticulato-venosa, ad marginem 
villosiuscula, supra nuda, majora subtriuncialia interdiim basi subhastato- 
excisa sink brevi latissimo, juniora sini angusto: petiolus  villosiuscu- 
lus uni-sesquiuncialis v. ultra. Pedunculi awillares, solitarii, 2-6-unciales, 
filiformes, graciles, elastico-rigentes, ‘ascendentes, villosiusculi, terminatt 
cyma subcapitato-contracta pluri-(sub5-) flora subtrichotoma subfoliosd, folio- 
lis 2 v. bracteis ad dichotomias. Cal. foliaceus, tenuis, venosus, usque ad 
basin partitus, foliolis erectis, inequalibus, ovato-acuminatis, ciliatis, 2 
multd majoribus villosiusculis @ plano oppositis florem nascentem intercluden- 
tibus, lateribus refleais. Cor. cerulea, rotata, radiis 5 pallidioribus stellata, 
angulato-5-loba. Fil. equalia, basi barbuta: anthere pallide. Stylus albus, 
indivisus: stigmata 2 replicata, oblonga, cylindracea, brevia, albida, prui- 
nosa. 
It does not appear by any of the horticultural records 
that this pretty shrub has ever appeared in our gardens till 
last year; when it flowered in December in Mr. Kent's 
richly stored and well-managed hothouse at Clapton, haying 
been raised from seed from the East Indies. 
In regard to inflorescence the species has considerable 
affinity with ConvotvuLus involucratus, an account and 
figure of which will be found in Volume 4. (fol. 318) of this 
publication. But it comes still nearer to Convoivuxus ma- 
labaricus, as far as we can judge from an unpublished 
figure and description of that species among Dr. Roxburgh’s 
manuscripts in the Banksian Library; by which we find 
that it differs from pentanthus principally in having no 
