Plants of the Punjab. 609 
CLIMBING PLAN?s WITH ALTERNATE EXXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Embelia Ribes, 
Babrung. 
MyYRSINACEA. 
FE. Budleinnbt3: 
The Plains to 
5,000 ft. 
Ipomza Bona-Nox, 
Moon flower, 
CoNVOLVULACER. 
PBs liv. 197. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Cultivated, from 
Tropical America. 
Ipomzea muricata, 
CONVOLVULACER. 
By By iv; 197. 
Himalaya, 
1-5,000 ft, 
Kangra. 
Ipomea purpurea, 
COoNVOLVULACER. 
F. B. I. iv. 200. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Cultivated. 
Ipomeea barlerioides, 
COoNVOLVULACES. 
EY Be Toay2 20: 
The P ains to 
4,000 ft. 
PETALS UNITED, 
perennial ; leaves 3 by 1} in., narrowed at both ends. 
entire, smooth, long-pointed, base wedge-shaped, stalk 
4 in.; flowers 4, m., white, in grey velvety branch- 
ing terminal and axillary racemes, minor flower stalks 
longer than the flowers, calyx 5-lobed, persistent, petals 5, 
overlapping in bud, stamens 5 ; fruit small, round, one, 
rarely two-seeded. The powdered seeds form an excellent 
anthelmintic. 
annual, smooth or rough with projections, twining ; 
leaves 3-8 in., heart-shaped, ovate, short-pointed, smooth, 
entire, or angular, or lobed, stalk 3-6 in. long; flowers 
3 by 3-5 in., white, fragrant on 1-5-flowered stalks, 2-6 in, 
long, bracts soon falling off, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes 
3 in., ovate, blunt or short-pointed, corolla funnel-shaped, 
tube 8 by 3 in., corolla mouth wth lobes 8-5 in. across, 
lobes shallow, 5 plaits, stamens 5 on the corolla just pro- 
truding, style thread-like, stigma 2-lobed ; capsule 1 in., 
ovoid-oblong, narrowed upwards, seeds 4, smooth. 
like the last species, but a weaker plant usually rough 
with projections, leaves 2-4 in., flowers much smaller, 
corolla tube 1-2 by 3 in., flower stalk much thickened in 
fruit. 
like the last species, but hairy, leaves a little larger, 
flowers pink, corolla tube short, capsule } in., 8-celled. 
6-4-seeded. 
like the last species, but leaves ovate-oblong, stalk 
short or none, flowers solitary, larger, purple, or purplish 
white, capsule 4 in., 2-celled. 
