244 LXXXTIII. CONVOLTULACB^. 



4. Ipomoea Stocksii, C. B. Clarle, in Ilool-.f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) 

 p. 204. Stems prostrate, twining, jjatently hairy. Leaves 2 in. long, 

 elliplic or rhoinboid, subacute, base obtuse or subcordate ; petioles ^-l-j 

 in. long. Flowers in sessile beads ; bracts \ in. long, lanceolate, hispid. 

 Sepals ^-h in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, patently hispidulous. Capsules 

 J-=| in. long, ovoid, glabrous, 2-celled, 4-seeded. Seeds furred, margins 

 villous. The above description is that of Mr. C. B. Clarke (/. c). 



This species differs from /. eriocarpa, E. Br., in the leaves, the seeds, 

 and the capsules, which latter are hairy in /. eriocarpa and glabrous iu 

 J. Stodsii, while it differs from /. sindica, Stapf, in the leaves and 

 seeds. 



I have seen no specimens authenticated as having been collected in the Bombay 

 Presidency. There is in all 1 sheet in Herb. Kew. carrying a printed Herbarium label 

 of Herb. Hook. f. & Thorns, on which appears " Malabar, Konkan &c. Cull. Stocks 

 Lmv &c." On the corner of the sheet is a small ticket on which is written " Hob. 

 Stocks," above which is a word apparently " Siyic/.'^ 



5. Ipomoea sindica, Staj>f, in Kew Bnll. (1894) p. 340. Annual ; 

 stems reaching 2 ffc. long, many from the root, slender, prostrate, 

 hispid. Leaves |-2| by ^-1^ in., oblong-hastate or deltoid-hastate, 

 much longer than broad, acute or acuminate, more or less hairy on both 

 surfaces and with ciliate margins, base cordate with diverging lobes; 

 petioles ^-Ig in. long, hairy. Elow'ers in axillary few-flowered cymes 

 often reduced to single flowers ; peduncles scarcely any ; bracts linear, 

 y\j— g in. long, hairy ; pedicels very short. Sepals during flowering 

 ^-\ in. long, hispid, lanceolate, dilated at the base, slightly enlarged in 

 fruit. Corolla infundibuliform, g in. long, slightly 5-lobed with a small 

 tuft of hairs at the tip of each lobe. Capsules i-i in. long, globose or 

 ovoid, glabrous. Seeds black, thinly grey-velvety. Very cIosh to 

 Ipomoea eriocarpa, Br., from which it may be distinguished by its 

 glabrous capsules and velvety seeds. AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 

 12 (1898) p. 171.— Flowers : Oct. 



SiND : near Karachi, Woodrotvl, Cooke I; Jemadar ka Landa near Karai-hi, Stocks, 

 41 ! — DisTEiB. North Western India. 



6. Ipomoea rumicifolia, CJioisi/, Convolv. Orient, in ]\llm. Soc. 

 Phi/s. (Jenl'v. v. 6 (1834) p. 447. Annual ; stems usually prostrate, 

 sparsely hirsute. Leaves 1-1| in. long, nearly as broad as long, ovate, 

 hastate or subreniforni, very obtuse, usually apiculate, sometimes 

 emarginate, entire, or sometimes irregularly angular or lobulate, 

 glabrous, base cordate, usually with a wide sinus and rounded lobes; 

 petioles reaching 2 in. long. Peduncles short, 0-| in. long, laxly 

 few-flowered; bracts 4 in. long, linear, hairy, subpersistent ; pedicels 

 \->^ in. long, slightly thickened in fruit. Sepals \ in. long, ovate, acute, 

 clothed with sjjrcading hairs from bulbous bases, ciliate. Corolla 

 tubular-campanulate, ^-| in. long, glabrous. Capsules |-g in. long, 

 ovoid, apiculate, glabrous, veined. Seeds usually 4, deiis^ely velvetv. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 207; Woodr. in Joiu-n. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 171. — Flowers : Dec. 



Rare. Sind: Karachi, Woodrow \ — Di.stuib. India (W. Peninsula); Tropical 

 Africa. 



7. Ipomoea pilosa, Swccf, I fori. Brit. ed. 2 (1830) p, 372. Ainuial, 

 twining; stems clothed with long hairs from glandular bases. Leaves 



