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| Iponwea. | CI. CONVOLVULACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 199 
5. I. coccinea, Linn.; Bot. Mag. t. 221; leaves ovate-cordate acute 
glabrous, sepals elliptic suddenly acuminate, seeds densely furred. Roxb. Hort. 
Beng. 14; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 499; Meissn. in Mart. Brasil. viii. 217, with syn. 
I. luteola, Jacq. Ic. Rar. i. t. 85; Blume Byd. 711. I. pheenicea, Roxb. Hort. 
Beng. 14, and Fi. Ind. i. 502, and ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 92. Convolvulus 
Coccigeus and luteolus, Spreng. Syst. i. 599. C. phoeniceus, Spreng. Syst. i. 596; 
Wall. Cat. 1372. — Quamoclit coccinea, Moench Hort. Marb. 453; Chois. in 
DC. Prodr. ix. 335, with syn. Q. phoenicea, Chois. Convolv. Or. 51, t. 1, fig. 1, 
and in DC. Prodr. ix. 336. 
Cultivated and quasi-wild throughout Inp1a, erroneously supposed by Roxburgh 
to be a native of Coromandel.— Introduced from tropical America. 
Stems subscandent, weak. Leaves 2-4 in. diam., entire or lobed ; petiole 2-4 in. 
Peduncles 2-6 in. slender; cyme lax, few or many-flowered ; bracts inconspicuous. 
pals $ in. unaltered in fruit. Corolla crimson, in garden varieties orange or 
yellow; tube 1 in., mouth $ in. diam. Ovary completely 4-celled. Capsule 4 in. or 
cather more, ovoid, smooth, completely 4-celled ; dissepiments thin, membranous, per- 
Sistent. 
6. X. Quamoclit, Linn.; Bot. Mag. t. 244; leaves pinnate segments 
numerous linear, sepals elliptic, seeds nearly glabrous. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14, 
and Fl, Ind. i. 502, and ed. Carey $ Wail. ii. 93; Blume Byd. 708 ; Meissn. in 
Mart. Brasil. vii. 917 , with syn. Convolvulus pennatus, Lamk. Enc. iii. 567. 
C. Quamoclit, Spreng. Syst. i. 591; Wall. Cat. 1375. Quamoclit vulgaris, 
Chois. Convolv. Or. 52, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 336.— RumpA. Herb. Amb. v. 
t. 155, fig. 2.; Rheede Hort. Mal. xi. t. 60. 
Common throughout Inp1a, in gardens and as a denizen; native of tropical 
merica. 
A slender, glabrous twiner. Leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., segments distant. Peduncles 
few-flowered. Corolla crimson or white. Flowers and capsules nearly as of Z. 
coccinea, ` 
Susernus III. Pharbitis, Chois. in. DC. Prodr. ix. 341 (genus). Corolla- 
tube narrow, Anthers included. Ovary 3-celled, 6-ovuled. Capsule 3-celled, 
seeded, 
7. I. hederacea, Jaco. Collect. i. 124, and Ie. Rar. i. t. 36; hairy, leaves 
ovate-cordate 3-lobed lobes ovate acuminate, peduncles 1—5-fld. mostly shorter 
an the petioles, sepals elliptic elongate-linear patently hirsute near the base, 
seeds glabrous. Bot. Reg. t. 85; Blume Bijd. 710; Meissn. in Mart. Brasil. 
Vil. 228. I. coerulea, Koen.; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14, and FT. Ind. i. 501; ed. 
Carey § Wall. ii. 91; Bot. Reg. t. 276. 1. punctata, Pers. Sym. i. 184. I. nil 
and barbata, Roth Cat. Bot. i. 36, 37. I. Dillenii, Roem. § Sch. Syst. iv. 227. 
Convolvulus nil, Zinn.; Bot. Mag. t. 188. ©. hederaceus, Linn.; Wall. Cat. 
1972. C. Dillenii, Lamk. Enc. iii. 544. C. cceruleus, Spreng. Syst. i. 593. 
Convolvuloides triloba, Moench Hort. Marb. 452.  Pharbitis hederacea and 
nil, Chois, Convolv. Or. 57, 58, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 343, 344. P. diversifolia, 
Lindl. in. Bot, Reg. t. 1988. P. variifolia, Dene. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. ui. a. 
| s hii, punctata and barbata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 263, with many ot 
IND; both cultivated and apparently wild, common.—Disrzis. Tropical and 
subtropical regions of both hemispheres. odi iole 1-4 in 
p Stem twining, sparsely retrorsely hirsute. Leaves 2-5 in. diam. ; potion e, lu . 
Peduneles rarely longer than the petioles; pedicels usually } in. ; brac 2 3 ine 
linear, close to the calyx. Sepals 4-1 in., subequal, narrowly linear upwa rA T 
hirsute, or nearly glabrous near the base. Corolla 14-2 in., tubular-funne p pe i 
rose-coloured, blue, or somewhat orange below. -Anthers never twisted. Capsu 
