Ij)omm.] Lxxxi. convolvulace^. 423 



hcsitatiou. Tliey are mere fragments, and may belong to /. 3Iue/ieri, but have much more 

 the aspect of the true 7. sepiaiia. The flowers are rather larger than they are usually m 

 India, but there also it occasionally occurs with similar large flowers. 



24. I. Muelleri, Benth. A glabrous rather slender twiner. Leaves 

 on rather long petioles, very broadly cordate-ovate, obtuse, with rounded 

 basal auricles, entire, 1 to 3 in. long. Peduncles shorter or at length longer 

 than the petioles, bearing 1 to 3 llowers on very short pedicels. Bracts very 

 small. Sepals broad, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, 4 to 5 hues long. 

 Corolla apparently pink, rather above 1 in. long. Capsule globular, smooth, 

 as long as the calyx. Seeds villous, 



N. Australia. Nichol Bay, Jf'alcoit ; Start's Creek, F. Mueller ; m the iuterior 

 lat. 18° 30', M^Douall Stuart's Expedition. Evidently uearly alhcd to /. septarta, buttn. 

 flowers are smaller and the seeds villous. 



Series 5. Campanulat^.— Leaves entire toothed or lobed at the base. 

 Ovary 2-celled. Corolla moderate or small, rarely exceeding 1 in. m lengtti, 

 usually broadly campanulatc, yellow wdiite or pink. 



2o- 1. cymosa 



rather coarse twiner, glabrous or softly pubescent, usually turning dark brown 

 i" drying. Leaves petiolate, from ovate to oblong or lanceolate shortly 

 acuminate or obtuse, tlie larger ones broadly cordate or almost sng|>tta e ti e 

 Karrow ones rounded at the base. Flowers of a pure white or with a ye o w 

 «ye, in cymes of 6 to 12 or even more, rarely solitary or nearly so, on a sl^ioi 

 rather thick common peduncle. Sepals 2 to 3 or in some Indian specimens 

 nearly 4 lines long, glabrous, coriaceous, nearly equal in length boroiia 

 campanulate, 1 in.long or even larger, often hairy outside at the top Ova y 

 2-celled. Capsule shortly acumin.Tte, longer than the calyx. Seeds clothed 

 with long soft loose hairs.— Bot. Keg. 1843, t. 34. 



Queensland. Rockingham Bav, Ballach, sometimes covering t^^/jf^^;;;^;,;^/, 

 of white flowers. The species is common in the greater part of India ^"J^ tJ^/^jS^ 

 ''nd is scarcely to be distinguished from the /. nmSellaia of tropical Amenca and AU.ca, 

 ncept by the colour of the flowers, which, in the latter species, is yellow. 



26. I. linifolia, ^/«,«. ; Ckols. in DC. ProdA.^^e9. ^^'-^ 

 glabrous or clothed' or sprinkled with long sdky hairs, leaves pd.oMe. 

 narrow-lanceolate, entire, rounded or truncate at the base, ^ ^o ^ in^o - 

 Peduncles slendei', raostlv about as long as the leaves l^«=^'-"i§ .^Ttrmore 

 forked cyme,moi; frequently a simple loose 1 ' f f ^^/^ ,f . ^3 Ton^s 

 yellow flowers, the bracts smlll but persistent. Ped.eels ^^^-^Jj ^%*f °°/| 



^e calyx. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, acute nearly equal, 3-^ o near j 5 



\'»es long. Corolla campanulate, about f iu. lorig. Ovary 2-eeUed. but U^ 

 dissepiment usually drving up after ilowe.ing. Capsule^ '"'f ' Z ChoVs 

 bular, usually l-illed. Seeds 4, glabrous.-5A-.««ma c^sptosa, Choi,. 



^'ouv. Or. t. 6, and iu DC. Prod. ix. 435. ^^^^^^ 



^ Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Lallachy. Common in Indm and t e js 



Arclupelago. 1 refer this plant to Blame's /- Un^^h^^ "it^V'^^M diaSo is. 

 «ived from Miquel under that name, which agrees well with Bkime s slio.t diagno 



27. I. chryseides, Ker, Bot. Eeg. t. 370. A slender glabrous twiner. 



