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Ovary glabrous. Capsules ^-| in. loug, ovoid, glabrous. Seeds villous. 

 n. B. I. V. 4, p. 212 ; Jackson, in Index Kewen. v. 1 (1893) p. 1223 ; 

 Trim. n. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 224 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 252 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 171 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 4, p. 482. Ipomoea Pes-cajjni^, Sweet, Hort. Suburb. (18 L8) p. 35; 

 Roth, Nov. PL Sp. (1821) p. 1()9 ; G-rah. Cat. p. 130 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 164 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 99. Convolvulus Pes-caprce, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. (1753) p. 159. — Flowers more or less throughout the year. Vern". 

 Maryddvel ; Sam ndraphen. 



Common throughout the Presidency on sandy shores and sandy river-banks, where 

 it serves to bind the sand. — Distkib. Sea-shores of both hemispheres throughout the 

 Tropics. 



The leaves of the phmt are employed as au external application in rheumatism. 

 See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



17. Ipomoea dissecta, Willd. Phytogr. (1794) p. 5, t. 2, fig. 3. 

 Annual, glabrous, with a short stout stem and numerous prostrate 

 slender angular branches 6-24 in. long, not or rarely twining. Leaves 

 very variable, digitate, or the upper sometimes pedate ; lobes 3-7, linear- 

 lanceolate, irregularly and acutely serrate ; petioles \-^ in. long, with 

 axillary stipule-like leaves at their base. Plowers usually solitary ; 

 peduncle^ |-1| in. long; bracts near the flower minute, lanceolate, 

 acute, or flowers subsessile among leaf-like pectinate bracts. Sepals 

 i- in. long, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous but rough outside with promi- 

 nences, cuspidate, recurved at the apex. Corolla white, tubular, g-| in. 

 long, glabrous, acutely 5-lobed. Ovary 3-celled. Capsules \-^ in. in 

 diam., subglobose, glabrous, 3- or 6-valved. Seeds usually 3, pubescent. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 200 ; Jackson, in Index Kewen. v. 1, p. 1224 ; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. V. 3, p. 213. Ipomcea coptica, Eoth, Nov. PI. Sp. (1821) 

 p. 110 ; Grab. Cat. p. 132; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 166. Convolvulus cojiticus, 

 Linn. Maut. 559. 



I have seen no authentic specimen of tliis plant from the Bombay Presidency, the 

 specimens supposed to be /. dissecta being all referable to 1. laciniatu, Dalz. Grahnm 

 (Cat. 1. c), whom Dalzell and Gibson follow (Bo. Fl. 1. c), gives it as occurring in 

 open glades at Khaudala, a locality which has been so tboroughly examined that the 

 plant could scarcely have escaped notice. Ipomoea lacinitita, Clarke, occurs at Khau- 

 dala, and I think Graham has mistaken this for /. dissecta and been followed in his 

 error. The corolla of /. dissecta, is much smaller than that of /. laciniata, which 

 latter has a long narrow corolla-tube. — Distkib. W. India (not common) ; Ceylon, 

 Tropical Africa, Australia. 



18. Ipomoea digitata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. (1759) p. 924 (not of 

 Parodi). Perennial, with large ovoid or elongated tuberous roots ; 

 stems long, thick, twining, tough, glabrous. Leaves 4-6 in. long, often 

 broader than long, deeply palmately divided ; lobes 5-7, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, glabrous, entire, pale and with prominent nerves 

 beneath ; petioles 2-5 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in many-flowered 

 corymbosely paniculate cymes ; peduncles solitary, axillary, sometimes 

 exceeding 6 in. loug, stout ; bracts minute, deciduous ; pedicels |-| in. 

 long. Sepals \-^ in. long, orbicular-oblong, subobtuse, concave, 

 glabrous. Corolla purple, 1|-2| in. long, campanulate-infundibuliform ; 

 lobes of the limb emarginate. Ovary 4-celled, glabrous. Capsules ovoid, 

 5-^ in. long, 4-celled, 4-valved, surrounded by the enlarged rather fleshy 

 sepals. Seeds clothed with brownish cottony readily detachable hairs, 

 nearly J in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 202; Jackson, in Index Kewen. 



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