96 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
Ipomæa cymosa, Roem. et Schult.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 211.— 
Shan hills terai at 3000 feet. 
Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
Ipomæa dissecta, Willd.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 200.—Near 
Meiktila. 
Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
Ipomæa eriocarpa, R. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 204.—Shan 
hills at 3000 feet. 
Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, and extending into some 
extratropical regions, as Afghanistan. Also colonized in the 
West Indies. 
Ipomea obscura, Ker; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 207.—Meiktila, 
very common. 
Widely spread in tropical Asia, and occurring in the Mascarene 
islands, East Africa, and Australia. 
Ipomea palmata, Forsk.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 214.— 
Meiktila. 
Throughout the tropics, and reaching some subtropical parts. 
Ipomea palmata, Forsk., var.? gracillima, Coll. et Hemsl.— 
Glaberrima, gracillima, foliis pedato-lobatis segmentis angustis, 
pedunculis filiformibus elongatis, floribus quam in typo saltem 
dimidio minoribus.—Meiktila. 
Ipomea palmata, Forsk., is spread over the tropics of both 
hemispheres. 
Ipomea petaloidea, Choisy; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 212; syn 
1. xanthantha, Kurz, Forest Fl. Burma, ii. p. 219, et I. Riedeliana, 
Oliver, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1424.—Shan hills at 3000 feet. 
Eastern India and Malaya, and also recorded from North 
Oude. 
Choisy (DC. Prodr. ix. p. 360) describes his Ipomea petaloidea, 
of which Convolvulus crispatus, Wall. (Cat. 1403), was the typ® 
as having “corolla rubra speciosa in lacinias 5 alte divisa "; 
whereas the corolla of Wallich’s plant bearing this number in the 
set at the Linnean Society’s rooms is entire and remarkably 
hairy on the outside. From Choisy’s description of the leaves 
