. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . as taken; but are obliged entirely to Mr. Herbert forwhat we have to say of the plant. Root perennial; stem suffrutescent, giowing to aboutthree yards in height. Leaves sessile, about an inch and ahalf long or upwards, decrescent, scarcely the third of aninch broad, enclosing the branch between the lobes at theirbase. Peduncles solitary, somewhat shorter than the leaf,slender upright, one flowered, rarely 2 or 3-flowered (sub-villous ?) Bractes two, small, opposite, lanceolate, placed alittle above the middle of the peduncle. Flowers
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . as taken; but are obliged entirely to Mr. Herbert forwhat we have to say of the plant. Root perennial; stem suffrutescent, giowing to aboutthree yards in height. Leaves sessile, about an inch and ahalf long or upwards, decrescent, scarcely the third of aninch broad, enclosing the branch between the lobes at theirbase. Peduncles solitary, somewhat shorter than the leaf,slender upright, one flowered, rarely 2 or 3-flowered (sub-villous ?) Bractes two, small, opposite, lanceolate, placed alittle above the middle of the peduncle. Flowers straw-coloured, yellower at the plaits of the limb; tube crimsonon the inside; limh about | of an inch across: stigma green-ish : anthers cream-coloured. Cultivated in the stove, where it flowers from Juneto November, and ripens its seeds, which are of a pale browncolour, and about the size and shape of those of Ipomceacoccinea. The ends of the branches are clipped in thewinter, by which more abundant and stronger shootsare produced in the ensuing 318 CONVOLVULUS Guinea Bindweed, PEXTANDIIIA MOXOGYXIA. Nat. ord. Convolvuli. Jitssieu gen. 132. Con volvulacezt:. Brovcn prod. VOL V UL US. Supra vol. 2. foL 133. Div. Caule involucratus, foliis cordato-hastatis pabescentibus, pedunculis subtrifloris,calycibus bracteatis. JVilld. sp. jjl. 1. 84-,5. Planta annua, tota villosa, Caulis herbaceus, teres. Folia cordatOhastata, subtriuncialia, loho medio ovato-acuminato, cuspidato, lateralibttspluries minoribus horizontalibus, brevissime ovatis: petiolus teres, parumbrevior folio, crassitudine fere ramorum. Pedunculi ^o/zV^r//, \-2>-flori, mul-turn longiores at graciliores petiolo, longiores vel cequales folio, teretes, stric-tiusculi, nunc supra semel v. bis breviter divisi, bracteis 2 oblongo-acuminatissub quaque divisurd: pedicelli breves. Bracteae florales 2 angustce, lineari-lanceolatce, breviores calyce sub quoquefore.
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