CONVOLVULACEAE 1087 
M E filiform, often "ia twisted and used in climbing: des ovate, 
4-5 mm. long, becomi ming 6-7 mm. long: corolla pale-violet, 18-30 mm. long: 
capsules 10 mm. long or ae .—Near New Orleans, La. Nat. of trop. p 
18. I. fistulosa Mart. Leaf-blades ovate, 5-9 long, bp cordate: 
peduncles Erud dial Es d: sepals oid. 5- 7.5 mm. long: pees 
6-8 em capsule ovoid, about 1.5 cm. ings seeds shaggy 
nt. 'L. en Coulter] d places, Coastal Plain, Pes. Fla., 
S Tex., and James Is., S. C. of S. 
7. CAL N Choisy.  High-twining vines. Leaf-blades broad. 
Flowers showy. aoe -lobes herbaceous, becoming leathery, the outer ones 
sometimes horned at the apex. Corolla wide expanding in the evening, salver- 
MED not dilated at the throat. Capsule large, longer th 
broad.—Four species, in tropical Ameriea.—MOON-FLOWERS. MOON-VINES. 
epals, at least the outer, long-appendaged: seeds glabrous or 
essentially so. 1. C. cour eet. 
Sepals unappendaged : seeds velvety and comose around the edges. 2. C. Tuba. 
1. C. aculeatum (L.) House. Leaf-blades ovate to orbicular-ovate, 5-15 em. long, 
entire or posee i. E 9-lobed, thin-textured, rather ae acu 
minate, the lobes, when pre acute or » 
acuminate: app pendaged ealyx- ie ps 3 em. 
a y very showy; age ome 9—]4 
limb 10-14 cm capsule 
much Ep m 
yt 
: vi 
urned iom especially in hammocks, 
ape 
Tuba (Schlecht.) Colla. Leaf-blades Ca 
s Mee to reniform-ovate, 8-15 em. long, usually entire, thick-textured, 
oadly acumin nate: calyx- lobes 1. 5-2.5 e 
f what 
calyx-lobes, the supporting ns slightly thickened eee the calyx.—Coastal 
hammocks, S pen. Fla. and t iR (OF. I., Mex., C. A., S. A., O. W.)—Al 
year.—Unlike the pre Pre 2 , €. Tuba does not occur inland in Fla.; it 
grows only in saline and brackish situatio ons. 
8. QUAMOCLIT [Tourn.] Moench. Annual (ours) or perennial vines, 
Blades entire, lobed, or divided. 
Calyx-lobes equal or nearly s 
orange, yellow, or an salve cians tube narro 
ing, shorter than the tube. Ovary 2- 
4-celled and 4-seeded.—About 10 species, in warm and tropical regions.—Sum.— 
fall or all year S 
Een: blades pinnately parted, the segments narrow: calyx-lobes ied or mucro 
wamoclit. 
Leaf. blades entire: calyx-lobes acuminate. 2. D: Minna 
