Flora Medica

CONVOLVULACE^:.Nat.syst.ed.2.p.231.ARGYREIA.Sepals 5. Corolla campanulate. Style 1. Stigma capitate,2-lobed. Ovary 2-celled 4-seeded. Capsule baccate.805. A. bracteata Wall cat. No. 1419. Choisy Convolv. or. 30.Compan. to Bot. i.Mag. 38. t. 3. Common near Madras.A large twining, branched, milky shrub, the young shoots strigose.Leaves alternate, on long petioles, which are round, and furnished atthe base with 2 thick oblong glands ;limb broadly cordate-ovate, ratheracute, entire, glabrous, dark shining green above, beneath strigoselyhirsute, and somewhat silky. Peduncles axillary, rather longer thanthe petioles, dividing at the extremity into 2 or 3 branches, with a sessileebracteated flower in the fork ;each branch divides again in the samemanner : the solitary flower in the second and all succeeding divisionsfurnished with a long, lanceolate, waved, pale green, hairy bractea. Inthis manner, what was at first an umbel, progressively becomes a panicle,bearing flowers and fruit in all stages, each of the pedicelled flowershaving 3 bracteas closely appressed to the base of the calyx. Calyx of5 ovate and mucronate hairy sepals. Corolla campanulate, externallyhairy, of a purplish-white colour; within, near the bottom, deep-purple,becoming paler near the throat limb : spreading, cream-coloured.Stamens 5; filaments unequal, enlarged at the base. Ovary superior,seated in a yellow glandular cup-shaped disk. Style aa long as thestamens. Stigma 2-lobed. Pericarp a 3- to 4-seeded berry, deeporange-coloured when ripe. Seeds imbedded in pulp. Wight and Arnotl.Decoctions of the leaves are used by the natives as fomentations incases of scrophulous enlargements of the joints; the boiled leavesbeing employed as a poultice at the same time. Juice milky. Wight.IPOM^EA.Sepals 5. Corolla campanulate. Stamens included. Style 1.Stigma 2-lobed ; the lobes capitate. Ovary 2-celled ; cells2-seeded. Capsule 2-celled.806. I.Turpethum RBr.prodr. 485. Bot. t.Reg. 279. Nee*and Eberm. handb. ii. 642. Plant, med. 105. Choisy convolv.or. 68. Convolvulus Turpethum Linn. sp. plant. 221. Roxb.Fl. Ind. i. 476. The East Indies, Malayan Archipelago, NewHolland, Timor, Otaheite, Friendly Islands, Marianne Islands,Tinian, &c.Roo perennial. Stems twining, several fathoms long, from 3 to 4sided ;a little downy, with winged angles. Leaves stalked, varying in395