Ipomcea?^ Convolvulacece. 217 



Annual, stems straggling or twining", with long spreading 

 hair; 1. i|-3 in., rotundate in outline, more or less deeply 

 palmately cut into 5, 7, or 9 ovate acute lobes narrowed at 

 base, hairy on both sides, petiole i|-2| in., with long hair; 

 fl. sessile, 3 or more in a head, bracts oblong-oval, obtuse, 

 hairy, outer ones larger, peduncle longer than petiole, stout, 

 very hairy, sep. nearly equal, lanceolate, very acuminate, with 

 copious long hair ; cor. rather small, tubular-campanulate, 

 limb under i in. diam.; capsule under \ in., concealed in cal., 

 globose, seeds pubescent. 



Var. /3, hepaticifolia, Clarke^ I. c. Herm. Mus. 65. Burm. Thes. 

 TJ). Fl. Zeyl. n. 79. /. hepaticifolia, L. Sp. PL 161. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 

 20, f. 2 (bad). 



L. only 3-lobed and often very shallowly so. 



Low country; common in dry sandy places. Fl. Oct.; pale pink or 

 white. 



Throughout Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Var. j8 is scarcely deserving of separation, since 3-lobed or even entire 

 1. may be found on the same plant as the ordinary 7-lobed ones. 



12. I. eriocarpa, Br. Prodr. 484 (1810). 



/. sessiliflora, Roth., Thw. Enum. 212. C. P. 3107. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 204. Wight, Ic. t. 169 (/. sessiliflord). 



Stems slender, twining, hairy ; 1. 2-4I in., linear- or 

 oblong-lanceolate, somewhat dilated and deeply cordate at 

 base, tapering, apiculate, sparingly hairy on veins above and 

 beneath and on margin, petiole f-i^ in., with deflexed hair; 

 fl. rather small, on very short ped., three (rarely more) in a 

 head, bracts small, linear, no outer ones, peduncle very short, 

 under \ in.; sep. oblong-linear, dilated at base, very hairy ; 

 cor. campanulate, scarcely exceeding sep., under \ in. diam., 

 lobes with a small tuft of hair at apex ; ov. very hairy ; 

 capsule \ in., globose, hairy ; seeds minutely dotted, glabrous. 



Moist region to 4000 ft.; rather rare. Uva Province; Wattegoda. 

 Fl. Feb.-April; pink. 



Throughout Tropics of Old World. 



13. 1. ang-ustifolia,/ar^ Ic. Rar. ii. t. 317 (1786). Kin-madu, S. 



Convolvulus Medium., Moon Cat. 13 (.'' Linn). /. t/ide?itaia, var. /3, 

 Thw. Enum. 211. C. P. 1930. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 205. Bot. Mag. t. 5426 (/. filicaidis). Rheede, Hort. 

 Malab. xi. t. 55. 



Annual or biennial, stems very long, not twining, pro- 

 strate, not rooting at nodes, 5-angled, glabrous, wiry, slightly 

 branched ; 1. very numerous, 2-2^ in., on very short petioles, 

 linear or narrowly lanceolate-oblong, dilated with coarsely 

 dentate auricles at base, otherwise entire, cuspidate at apex ; 



