188 CI. CONVOLYULACEEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Argyreia. 
Tropical Africa (if A. populifolia, var. africana (Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 
114) can be identified with any Indian plant). 
19. A. bracteata, Chois. Convolv. Or. 39, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 328; 
leaves ovate base rounded glabrate above fulvous densely silky beneath, 
peduncles mostly short, lowers subcapitate, bracts prominent oblong or elliptic 
silkily villous persistent, sepals } in. ovate subacute. Wight in Hook, Comp. 
Bot. Mag. i. ba, t. 3. Convolvulus pomaceus, Wall. Cat. 1419, type sheet 
partly. Ipomea Kleiniana, Roem. § Sch. Syst. iv. 789. 
Deccan PENINSULA; Rottler; Madras, Shuter ; Coimbatore, Wight. . 
Seandent. Leaves 2-34 in., obtuse or scarcely acuminate, base sometimes slightly 
cordate ; petiole 1 in. Peduncles 3-2 in., bracts $ in. Sepals with scarious margins. 
Corolla 2 in. and upwards, tubular-campanulate, hirsute without. Berry $ in. 
yellowish-brown, pulpy.—Easily distinguished by its leaves being glabrous above 
shining silky beneath ; hence often contounded with 4. argentea. 
13. A. pomacea, Chois. Convolv. Or. 31, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 329; 
leaves elliptic-ovate obtuse closely softly hairy on both surfaces, peduncles 
short, corymbs small lax, bracts narrowly oblong caducous, sepals } in. round- 
ovate. Wight Ill. 168 bis fig. 2. Lettsomia pomacea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 18, 
and Fi. Ind. i. 493, and ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 83. Rivea pomacea, Wight lc. 
t. 888. Convolvulus pomaceus, Wall. Cat. 1419, part of second sheet. 
Soutu Deccan ; Mysore, Roxburgh; Coimbatore, Wight ; Nilgherries, G. Thom- 
son, &c. 
Large, scandent. Leaves 1-3 in., sometimes emarginate, often undulate, base 
rhomboid or rounded; petiole in. Peduncles 0-2 in.; bracts 4-% in. Corolla à 
in, tubular-campanulate, hirsute without, Berry $ in. diam., yellow-brown, 
pulpy. 
Van. triflora; leaves narrowly elliptic rhomboid at the base glabrate above 
sparsely strigose beneath, peduncles 4-2 in. 1-8-flowered, bracts j-j in. narrowly 
oblong obtuse glabrous, sepals glabrous. A. Leschenaultii, Thwaites Enum. 209, not 
of Chois. Ipomæa n. 43, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T.—Ceylon; Thwaites (C. P. 
n. 1932). 
14. A. sericea, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 169; leaves ovate-cordate 
acute hispid or strigose above densely silky beneath, peduncles as long as the 
petioles, flowers capitate, bracts prominent persistent oblong or elliptic nerv 
silky, sepals elliptic-lanceolate often unequal. Ipomæa bracteata, Graham Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 131, not of G. Don. 
Mararan Guavrs and Concan, frequent ; Stocks, Law, &c.; Belgaum, Ritchie. 
A powerful, silky twiner. Leaves 3-5 in., base of lower deeply cordate ; petiole 
1-3 in. Peduncles 1-4 in.; bracts attaining 1} in. Sepals 4 in., two outer often 
much longer. Corolla 2} in., tubular-funnel-shaped, pink, hirsute, without. Berry 
$ in. diam., orange-coloured, pulpy.—Perhaps, as Dalzell suggests, nearest to ^; 
argentea, but is usually referred to A. bracteata, Choisy, to which it is not 
very near. 
15. A. Leschenaultii, Chois. Convolv. Or. 31, and in DC. Prodr. 15. 
329, not of Thwaites; innovations white-tomentose, leaves subcordate ovate 
acuminate softly hairy on both surfaces, peduncles short, bracts linear, sep 
š in. ovate obtuse. Convolvulus Choisyanus, Wall. Cat. 2259, type sheet only 
( Choisy). 
NiteueErries, alt. 1-6000 ft. ; Wight, &c. 
A powerful climber. Leaves 6 by 5 in., suddenly shortly acuminate, closely 
villous subtomentose beneath becoming less so in age; petiole 2 in. Peduncles 
in., softly villous; bracts 2 by } in., subpersistent. Corolla 2 in., hirsute without- 
