2IO ConvolvulaceCB. \IponuEcu 



acute, pubescent ; cor.-tube \\ in., glabrous, limb 2 in. diam. 

 scarcely lobed ; stam. included ; fruit \ in., nearly globose, 

 yellow, surrounded by slightly enlarged spreading sep. 



Moist and intermediate country up to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. Nov.; 

 pale mauve, purple in the tube. 

 Also in S. India. 



\L. sefosa, Roxb., is given for Ceylon in FI. B. Ind. iv. 194, but I da 

 not know on what authority. There is no specimen from here in Herb. 

 Kew.] 



3. Zi. hancorniaefolia, Cla?-kc i)i Fl. B. hid. iv. 196 (1883). 



Ai's^vreia ]ia)tco)-nicefolia, Gardn., Thw. Enum. 210. C. P. 1924. 

 FI.'B. Ind. iv. 196. 



Stems semi-scandent, when young adpressed-pubescent 

 with fulvous hair; 1. numerous, 20-3^ in., broadly oval, obtuse 

 at base, acuminate, acute, glabrous, rather coriaceous, lat. 

 veins very numerous, close and parallel, petiole f-ii in., 

 slender, pubescent ; fl. rather large, solitary axillary, ped. 

 shorter than petiole, bracts small, deciduous ; sep. ovate, 

 obtuse, fulvous-pubescent, cor.-tube about i in., limb about 

 \\ in. diam., lobes rounded emarginatc ; fruit large, over i in., 

 oblong-ovoid, pointed, supported on enlarged spreading sep., 

 l-seeded. 



Lower montane zone ; very rare. I have only seen it at Hantane, but 

 Thw. gives ' Central Province up to 5000 ft.,' as though he had met with 

 it elsewhere. Fl. rose-pink. 



Endemic. 



5. ZPOniHlA, L. 



Annual or perennial, stems usually twining, often prostrate, 

 rarely creeping ; 1. alt., usually entire, fl. in axillary cymes 

 (often reduced to a single fl.), usually large, rarely small ; 

 sep. 5, equal or unequal, very much imbricate, often enlarged 

 in fruit ; cor. funnel-shaped, campanulate or salver-shaped, 

 5-lobed, lobes usually inconspicuous ; stam. 5, fil. usualh^ un- 

 equal ; ov. 2-celled (rarely 3- or 4-cellcd), with 2 ovules in 

 each cell, style simple, stigmas 2, globose ; fruit a dr)'' globose 

 or ovoid capsule, usually 4-valved ; seeds 1-4, glabrous or 

 hairy. — Sp. about 300 ; 57 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Ov. 4-celled, 1. palmatcly lobed {Batatas) . . i. I. DIOITATA. 

 Ov. 3-celled, 1. palmatcly lobed {Pliarbitis). 



Twining; fl. 2 in. diam 2. I. HEDERACEA. 



Not twining; fl. under \ in. diam. . . . 3. I. DISSECTA. 



