in other localities of the territory known as German 
East Africa; it is also recorded from Somaliland and 
British East Africa. Grown ina warm house, it flowered 
while still quite a small plant in April, 1918, and, being 
an annual, has since died. Typical /. Pes-tigridis ranges 
throughout India, where it is said to be common, growing 
in sandy soils; it also occurs in Ceylon, the Malay 
Peninsula, Malay Islands, Polynesia, China, Mauritius, 
and in many localities in Tropical East Africa, extending 
from Kordofan in the north to the Zambesi in the south ; 
it is represented in Angola by the variety strigosa, Hallier - 
f. Though of little merit as a garden plant it has 
appeared in cultivation from time to time, and is 
recorded as having been first introduced in 1732, the 
year of publication of Dillenius’s Hortus Elthamensis, 
in which work (t. 318, fig. 411) it is figured as Volubilis 
zeylanica, Pes-tigrinus dicta, Tt is also figured in Rheede’s 
Hortus Malabaricus, vol. xi. t. 59, under the name of 
Pulli-Schovadi. This Ipomoea belongs to the section 
Cephalanthae, the species of which usually have rather 
small flowers arranged in dense bracteate heads, with 
alee herbaceous sepals more or less resembling the 
racts. 
Description.—Herb, annual, everywhere densely beset with long yellow 
stiff hairs. Stem twining, slender, 6 ft. long or longer. Leaves stalked, 
palmately 5-9-partite, 3-4} in. wide with rounded sinuses ; lobes lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or more or less acuminate, quite entire, 14-3 in. long, 
3-12 in. wide; petiole 2-4 in. long. Peduncles axillary, usually 2-53 in. 
long, but occasionally only 2-1} in. long, bearing 2-5-flowered blossom-heads. 
Bracts lorate or linear, acuminate, 3-1} in. long, 2-1 in. wide. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-2 in. long, up to } in. wide. Corolla white with the 
tube purple outside and the throat violet within; tube funnel-shaped, j—1 in. 
long; _limb spreading, reaching 2} in. in breadth, shortly 5-lobed; lobes 
emarginate. Stamens included ; of unequal length ; filaments bearded at the 
base ; anthers oblong, s in. in length. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, zi; in. long, 
surrounded at the base by the entire cup-shaped disk ; style filiform, about } in. 
long, shorter than the longest of the stamens; stigma capitate, papillose. 
Tas. 8806.—Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, calyx and pistil, with the basa 
portion of a bract; 3, base of the corolla-tube, laid open and showing three of 
the stamens ; 4, anther; 5, ovary in longitudinal section :—all enlarged. 
