Ipomoea, . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 503 
- Obs. This is by far the most gaudy plant of the kind I 
have yet met with ; no painter can do justice to the brightness 
of its flowers, 
9. 1. Pes-tigridis, Willd. spec. i. 886. 
Annual, diffuse, or twining, hairy. Leaves palmate. Pe- 
duncles longer than the petioles, Flowers several in a soli- 
tary, aggregate, involucred head. 
Beng. Languli-luta. 
Pulli-schovadi. Rheed: Mal. xi, 121. t. 59. 
Volubilis zeylanica. Dill. Elth. tab. 318, f. 411. 
This is one of the most common, and generally diffused 
plants we have in India. Flowering time the rainy season 
chiefly. 
Stems diffuse, or twining when supported, round, and very 
hairy ; hairs fulvous, and diverging. Leaves alternate, long- 
petioled, palmate, hairy; lobes from five to nine, lanceolate, 
entire. Peduncles long, or longer than the petioles, hairy, 
each supporting a single head of sessile, white, or pink flow- 
ers ; the latter variety is smaller than the white one. IJnvolu- 
cre from eight to twelve-leaved ; deaflets unequal, recurved, 
lanceolate, obtuse, hairy. Calya of five lanceolate, acute, 
unequal, leaflets. Corol, with its five lobes deeply emargi- 
nate. Stigma of two round lobes. Capsules two-celled. Seeds 
two in each cell. 
10. I. Quamoclit, Willd. spec. i. 879. 7 
Annual, twining. Leaves pinnate, leaflets filiform, Pe- 
duncles one or two-flowered. eee Se 
Tsjuria-cranti. Rheed, Mal. xi. 123.4.60. 
Flos cardinalis. Rumph. Amb. v. 155. t. 2. — 
Camalata. Asiat, Res, iv. 256. 
Sans. Kamaluta, ’ Turooluta, = 
Beng. Lal kamluta or lal turooluta, the red variety ; ; sweta 
kamluta or sweta turooluta, the white-flowered variety, 
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