lAXXYIIT. COXTOLTULACE.E. 245 



2-5 iu. loug nnd about as bi'oad as long, broadly ovate, acute or 

 acuminate, entire or sometimes more or less deeply 3-lobed, hairy above, 

 white-woolly beneath, base cordate ; petioles 2-4 in. long, hairy. 

 Plowers in lax racemose bracteate cymes ; peduncles 1-3 in. long ; 

 bracts |-| in. long, lanceolate, acute, hairy, persistent ; pedicels |-| in. 

 long. Sepals | in. long and upwards, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 densely hairy and with strongly ciliate margins. (Corolla tiibular- 

 int'undibuliform, |-| in. long ; limb with scattered hairs outside, acutely 

 lobed. Capsules ^-^ in. in diam., subglobose, slightly pubescent 

 towards the top. Seeds clothed with velvety pubescence and long 

 cottony hairs as well. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 213; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 166; 

 Wight, Icon. t. 837; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 172. — Flowers : Dec. 



Gujarat: Baroda, Woodroivl; Godra, CooZe!; Abmedabad, Woodrow. Sind : 

 Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, Stocks !— Distrib. India (W. Hitualaja, Panjab, 

 Bengal) ; Tropical Africa. 



8. Ipomoea involucrata, Beauv. Fl. cVOwar. S,- Ben. v. 2 (1810) 

 ]i. .J2, t. yi>. Annual, twiuing ; stems appressedly or patently hairy. 

 Leaves 2-3 by 1|-2| in., rather longer than broad, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, obtuse, apiculate, entire, hairy on both surfaces, green 

 beneath, base deeply cordate with rounded lobes ; petioles 1-3 in. lono-, 

 hairy. Flowers sessile, in few-flowered heads enclosed in a large boat- 

 shaped bract which reaches | in. long and occasionallv as much as 

 2^ in. broad, hairy inside and outside, strongly veined ; peduncles 

 1-4 in. long with deflexed hairs ; inner bracts as long as the sepals, 

 obovate, hairy. Calyx densely hirsute outside, especially in the lower 

 part ; 3 outer sepals ^ in. long or a little longer, oblong, obtuse, very 

 hairy in the lower part, strongly ciliate, veined; the 2 inner sepals 

 smaller, narrowly linear, densely hairy along the back and with mem- 

 branous margins. Corolla bright-pink, 1^ in. long; tube | in. long, 

 narrow, cylindric ; limb exceeding 1 in. in diam., suddenly widened at 

 the mouth. Capsules | in. in diam., subglobose or obovoid, somewhat 

 depressed, papery, glabrous. Seeds glabrous, with a very narrow fringe 

 of short hairs on the margins. Hallier f. Monogr. Convolv. in Herb. 

 Boiss. V. 5, p. 375 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 734. Ipomcea pileafa, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey, v. 2 (1824) p. 94 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1363 ; C. B. Clarke, 

 in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 203; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 215; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 171. — Flowers : Oct.-Nov. 



KoNKAN : Stocks I, Law ! ; jungles in S. Koukan, rare, Dalzell ^ Gibson ; Savant- 

 vadi hills, Kanitkar\, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Assam, Bengal, W. Peninsula); 

 Ceylon, Tropical Africa. 



9. Ipomoea Clarkei, Hook.f. Fl. B. I. v. 4 (1883) p. 734 (under 

 additions and corrections). Annual ; stems twining, slender, glabrous. 

 Leaves 2-3| by 1|-2| in., broadly ovate, finely acuminate, more or less 

 hairy on both surfaces, base deeply cordate with rounded lobes ; petioles 

 1-2| in. long. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, |-1| in. long, slender ; bracts 

 minute, lanceolate, acute ; pedicels ^-l^ in. long. Sepals ^ in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, sparsely hairy and ciliate. Corolla i| in. long, 

 infundibuliform. Capsules | iu. long, ovoid, glabrous. Seeds puberulous, 

 dark-brown. Ipomoea Stocksii iu error for fpomcea Clarkei, in Hook, f. 



