2 1 6 ConVolvulaceCE. \_Ipomaa. 



4- or 8-valved, seeds dark brown, glabrous, with a fringe of 

 short white hair at margin. 



Low country; rare. DambuUa; Peradeniya. Fl. Nov.-March ; 

 bright pink. 



Also in India. 



A very distinct species from its curious inflorescence. The flowers 

 open punctually at 5 p.m. 



9. I. Wig-htii, Chois. Conv. Or. 88 (1833). 

 Thw. Enum. 212. C. P. 2851. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 203. Wight, Ic. t. 1364 (fl. much too small). 



Stenn twining, rather stout, hispid with spreading yellow 

 hairs ; 1. 3-4 in., cordate-ovate with shallow basal lobes^ 

 acute, mucronate, margin undulate or irregularly crenate, 

 hairy above, finely tomentose and snowy white beneath, 

 petiole 1-2 in., bristly ; fl. sessile, 3-6 in a dense head, bracts 

 narrow very bristly, outer bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 

 peduncle longer than petiole, very hairy ; sep. nearly equal^ 

 lanceolate-linear, attenuate, with yellow bristly hair ; cor. 

 widely funnel-shaped, hairy outside, limb about i in. diam.; 

 ov. with long erect bristles on top ; capsule § in., subglobose, 

 hairy ; seeds finely worted, minutely puberulous. 



Moist region, 2000-4000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane; Ramboda; 

 Atampitiya. Fl. Jan., Feb.; pink. 



Also in Southern India. 



10. X. bracteata, Wight, Ic. iv. pt. 2, 14 (1850). 

 Trim. in. Journ. Bot. xxiii. 172. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 203. Wight, Ic. t. 1374. 



Stem slender, twining, with long spreading hair; 1. small 

 \-\\ in., broadly cordate-ovate, acute, entire, hairy on both 

 sides, petiole longer than 1., hairy; fl. small, sessile, usually 3 

 in a head, bracts large, ovate, acute, hairy, outer bracts larger, 

 similar in form, peduncle as long as or longer than petiole, 

 hairy; sep. equal, lanceolate, acuminate, hairy, cor. funnel- 

 shaped, limb under \ in. diam.; capsule not seen. 



Moist low country ; very rare (?). As a weed on Culloden Estate near 

 Kalutara in 1880 (Ferguson). Fl. March; * purple-pink.' 



Also in S. India, whence it may have been introduced. 



I have very scanty material for this. 



11. I. Pes-tigridis,* L. Sp. PL 162 (1753). Divi-adiya, Divi- 

 pahuru, .S*. 



Mcrni. Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. 184; Mus. 12. Burm. Thcs. 70. 

 Fl. Zeyl. n. 78. Moon Cat. 14. Thw. Enum. 212. C. P. 1942. 



Fl B. Ind. iv. 204. Herm. Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. t. 187. Wight, Ic. 

 t. 836. 



* A translation of the S. name ; from the form of the leaf, thought to 

 resemble a tiger's foot. 



