. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . otero. viz. Caracoleiro { snail-plant); from Caracol^the Portuguese word for Snail. Brotero speaks of it as a subarborescent shmb; with usit has been looked upon as a perennial herbaceous tmning, from 12 to 20 feet high. Leaves very likethose of the Common Kidney Bean, only smaller. Calyxbilabiate, upper lip emarginate, lower tridentate. Vexillum(standard) cordate, obtuse, emarginate, reclined, with de-flex sides: alee (wings) ovate, the length of the vexillum,with long ungues: cai^ina (keel) narrow, twisted spirally.
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . otero. viz. Caracoleiro { snail-plant); from Caracol^the Portuguese word for Snail. Brotero speaks of it as a subarborescent shmb; with usit has been looked upon as a perennial herbaceous tmning, from 12 to 20 feet high. Leaves very likethose of the Common Kidney Bean, only smaller. Calyxbilabiate, upper lip emarginate, lower tridentate. Vexillum(standard) cordate, obtuse, emarginate, reclined, with de-flex sides: alee (wings) ovate, the length of the vexillum,with long ungues: cai^ina (keel) narrow, twisted truly diadelphous, twisted spirally within thecarina. Germen oblong, compressed, villous. Style fili-form, spirally twisted, pubescent at the upper part: stigmaobtuse, thickish, villous. Pod long, straight, coriaceous,obtuse with a p6int: seeds reniform, oblong, compressed. The seed is seldom produced in England. The twisted carina is a principal feature in the genericcharacter of Phaseolus. In the present species the vexillumis likewise 342 IPOMCEA Jalapa. Jalap Jpomcea* PENTANDRIA MONOGYNJA. Nat, ord, Convolvui,!. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. /. Stylus unicu6« CoNvoLVULACE-s. Brovon prod. 481. Sect, J, Germen unicum. J. Jalapa; pubescens; foliis cordatis integris lobatisque plicato rugosis sub-tus subtornentosis, pedunculis 1-3-floris, foliolis calycis ovalibus muticis^corollis campanulatis, seminibus prolixe lanuginosis, radice amer. sept. 1. 146. Ipomoea macrorhiza. Michaiix , 1. 14?1. Convolvulus Jalapa. Lin. Mailt, 42. Hort. Kexv, 1. 211. ed, 2. 1. sp. pi. 1. 860. Desfont. in annates du museum dhist. not, 2. 40. 41. !a) corollae limbo albo. Hujus loci.^) corollae limbo roseo. Curtiss magaz. tab. 1572. Radix tuberosa, magna, perennis. Caules herbacecef orgyales, volubileSyramosi, striati. Folia pubesceniia, cordata, subtus tomentosa, integra vol2-7-lobaia, nervosa : petiolus vix duplo brevior lamina. Pedunculi
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