246 LXXXTIII. COXVOLVULACE.i:. 



n. B. I. V. 4, p. 207 (correction made in p. 734) ; Woodr. in Jouru. 

 Bomb. ^'at. v. 12 (1898) p. 171.— Flowers : Sept. 



Rare. Konkan: Law\, Stocks \ Deccan : Tulja hill near Junnar (Poona districts), 

 Kanit/carl — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



10. Ipomoea longiflora, E. Br. Prodr. (ISIO) p. 484. An ex- 

 tensive climber; stems long, cyliiidric, glabrous, often subspinous with 

 short retroflexed tubercles. Leaves 3-6 by 2|-5| in., broadly ovate, 

 shortly acuminate, entire, glabrous, base deeply cordate ; main nerves 

 conspicuous beneath ; petioles 2-5 in. long. Peduncles usually solitary, 

 variable in length, 1-3-flowered ; bracts small, caducous ; pedicels 

 ^-| in. long, thickened in fruit. Sepals |-^ in. long, broadly elliptic 

 obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, the 2 outer rather smaller than the inner, 

 all enlarged and becoming orbicular in fruit. Corolla white, reaching 

 as much as 4| in. long ; tube reaching 3 in. long. Filaments exceeding 

 1 in. long, equal, hairy at the base. Capsules about 1 in. in diam., 

 surrounded by the greatly enlarged sepals, glabrous. Seeds brown- 

 velvety with a denser fringe on the margins. Prain, Beng. PL (1903) 

 p. 733. Ipomoea grandijlora, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fi. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 198 in part {not of Lanik. nor Eoxb.) ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 250 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 171.— Flowers: 

 Sept.-Nov. 



Rare; near the sea-coast, but often cultivated. Konkan: Law \, Stocks] Kanara : 

 in moist forests and along the banks of nalas, very rare, Talbot ; below the fall on the 

 TCdla naddi, i?ii!cA(e!— DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; most Tropical shores of the 

 Old World, Austraha. 



11. Ipomoea aquatica, Forsh. Fl. JSgt/pt.-Arah. (1775) p. 44. 

 Annual or biennial ; stems long, prostrate, trailing on mud or floating, 

 thick, hollow, rooting at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves 2-5 by l|-3 in. 

 (occasionally narrower), elliptic-oblong or subdeltoid, acute, glabrous, 

 base usually dilated, cordate or hastate with rounded or acute lobes, less 

 commonly truncate ; petioles l|-5 in. long. Peduncles ^-4 in. long, 

 usually 1-5-flowered ; bracts small, linear-lanceolate : pedicels 1-2 in. 

 long. Sepals |-^ in. long, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, mem- 

 brauous, glabrous. Corolla l|-2 in. long, iufundibuhform, the limb 

 very pale-purple (nearly white), the throat and tube dull-purple; lobes 

 obscure. Filaments very unequal, hairy at the base. Ovary glabrous. 

 Capsules ^- in. long, ovoid. Seeds 4 or 2, minutely pubescent. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 210 ; Jackson, in Index Kewen. v. 1 (1893) p. 1223 ; Trim. FI. 

 Ceyl. V. 3, p. 221 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 171 ; 

 AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 476. Ipomoea reptcois, Poir. Ency. Suppl. 

 V. 3 (1813) p. 460 in Obs. ; Grab. Cat. p. 130; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 164. 

 Convolvulus reptmis, Linn. Sp, PI. (1753) p. 158. — Flowers : Nov.-Apr. 

 Veen. Nalichi-bhdt/i. 



Ifargins of tanks and other moist places thi'oughout the Prcsidoncj-, very common 

 in Gujarat.— DiSTitiB. Throughout India, common; Ceylon, Tropical Asia, Africa, 

 and Australia. 



Tlie young shoots, leavpR, and roots are e-iten as a vegetable. The plant is hvrgely 

 cultivated in the Madras Presidency. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



12. Ipomoea sepiaria, Kcenir/, in JRo.vh. ITort. Beng. (1814) j). 14. 

 Perenniiil ; stems twining, slender, glabrous or more or less hairy. 

 Leaves 1-3 by § 2.] in., ovate, acute, entire, usually glabrous, cordate 



