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LXXXTIII. CONVOLVULACE^. 



p. 165; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 218; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Kat. 

 V. 12 (1898) p. 171.— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. Veen. Morga. 



KoNKAN : Shri-rardban, Woodrow ! ; near Bassein and Gliorabandar, Dalcell 4" 

 Gibson; S. Konkan, Kanitkar\ S. M. Gocxtry : Badaiiii, Woodrow \, Cookel 

 Gujarat: ]S"eriad, Woodrow\ — Distrib. India (W. Peniusula, extendiag north to 

 Chota Nagpore) ; Ceylon, Angola, Mauritius, Madagascar. 



4. Merremia hastata, IlalUer f. in Engl. Bot. Jalirh. v. 16 (1893) 

 p. 552. A biennial diffuse twining lierb ; stems very long, slender, 

 angular, glabrous. Leaves subsessile, 1^-3 bv ^-| in., hastate-oblong, 

 acute, cuspidate, glabrous, dilated and with coarsely dentate auricles at 

 the base. Plowers in axillary 1-3-flowered cymes ; peduncles sometimes 

 exceeding 3 in. long, slender ; bracts beneath the pedicels minute, 

 lanceolate ; pedicels ^1^ in. long, slightly clavate. fSepals | in. long, 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, very acute, with recurved points. Corolla 

 I in. long, pale-creamj-yellow or white, red at the base of the tube 

 inside ; limb shallowly lobed. Capsules \ in. in diam., depressed-globose, 

 surrounded by the slightly enlarged sepals. Seeds glabrous. Prain, 

 Beng. PL p. 730. Convolvulus hastatus, Uesr. in Lamk. Encyc. Method. 

 v. 3 (1789) p. 542 (not of Sieb. nor Thunb.). C. denticnlaius, Spreng. 

 Syst. V. 1, p. 603. Ipomcea denticulata, E. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 485. 

 /. fiUcmdis, Blume, Bijdr. p. 721 {not of Meyer); Grab. Cat. p. 131 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 165 ; Bot. Mag. v. 90, t. 5426. I. angusti. folia, C. B. 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 205 (not of Jacq.) ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. 

 V. 3, p. 217 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 12 (1898) p. 171 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 476. — Flowers : Aug.-Dec. 



Dalzeil in Herb. Kew. without locality. Konkan: Sfoclsl, Law], Graham, Balzell 

 4 Gibson. Deccan : Graham, Dahell k Gibson. S. M. Cou.vtry : Londa, Woodrow ! 

 Kanaka : Ritchie, 1893 ! ; Karwar, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Bengal, Khasia 

 mountains, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, S.E. Asia, Malaya, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



5. Merremia chryseides, HalUer f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrh. v. 16 

 (1893) p. bb2. .Stems twining, branched, glabrous but often rough 

 with small prominences. Leaves 1-3 by g-2| iu., ovate, acute, apicu- 

 late, sometimes 3 lobed, entire or coarsely toothed, glabrous, base deeply 

 cordate with rounded lobes ; petioles 1-2 in. long, slender. Flowers 

 small, numerous, in rather dense axillary racemose cymes ; peduncles 

 ^-3 in. long ; bracts small, caducous ; pedicels short. Sepals i- 1 in. 

 long, oblong, truncate, apiculate or sometimes obscurely toothed, glabrous, 

 becoming stiff and charlaceous and reflexed in fruit. Corolla yellow, 

 \ in. long, campanulate-infundibiiliform ; limb with 5 distinct triangular 

 lobes ; bands strongly lineate. Stamens slightly exserted. Capsules 

 \ in. long, broadly ovoid, somewhat 4-angled, glabrous, transversely 

 wrinkled. Seeds with velvety fulvous pubescence, trigonous, rounded 

 on the hack. Ijwmcea chryseides, Ker-Gawl. in Bot. Eeg. (1818) t. 270; 

 Dalz. & Gil)s. p. 160 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. T. v. 4, p. 206 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 219 ; Woodr. in Journ. J^omb. Xat. v. 12(1898) 

 p. 171. — Flowers: Oct.-JSTov. 



Not very common. Konkan: Muneri in the War! Country, Bahell ^- Gibson. 

 Deccan: Gokak, O'ckel S. M. Country: Belgaum, Eitchle, 11811 Gujarat: 

 Nausari, Cooke\; Daknr. /u/wM-ar !— DisTRiB. Througbout India; Ceylon, Malaya, 

 China, AuBtralia, Tropical Africa. 



