610 
Plants of the Punjab. 
CLIMBING PLANTS witH ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Ipomza Batatas, 
Sweet Potato, 
Shakarkand. 
CoNVOLVULACER. 
BB? 1.av.202) 
The Plains. 
Cultivated. 
Introduced from 
America. 
Ipomea eriocarpa, 
Bhanwar. 
CoNVOLVULACES. 
F. B. I. iv. 204. 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Valleys below Sim’a, 
(Collett). 
Koti. 
Ipomeea chryseides, 
CoNVOLVULACER. 
F. B. I, iv. 206. 
The Pla ns to 
4,090 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Ipomeea obscura, 
CoNVOLVULACER. 
fea, vy. 207. 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Ipomeea sepiaria, 
CoNVOLVULACES. 
EB. I. iv, 209. 
The Plains. 
Ipomea agautica, 
Ipomeea cymosa, 
CoNVOLVULACES. 
EB: 1 AV; Bids 
The Plains to 
4,000 it, 
PETALS UNITED. 
smooth or slightly hairy, tubers red, white or rarely 
yellow, stem usually hairy, often prostrate, leaves ovate, 
heart-shaped, short-pointed, angular, more or less lobed, 
flowers 2 in. or more, purple or many-flowered, long 
stalks, corolla widely tubular, funnel-shaped, stamens 
included, capsule 4-celled, widely cultivated and eaten ; 
for other characters see the former species. 
hairy, twining, leaves 24 by 1 in., oblong-heart-shaped, 
short-pointed, stalk 1 in., flowers # m., pink, sessile in 
heads, bracts } in., hairy, calyx lobes like the bracts, 
but smaller, corolla bell-shaped, capsule + in., round, hairy, 
2-celled ; for other characters see the former species. 
annual, smooth, twining much, sometimes prostrate, 
often rough with very small projections, leaves 14 by 1} 
in., broadly ovate, heart-shaped, entire, or 3-lobed, toothed, 
long-pointed, flowers $-3 in., yellow, im close clusters on 
stalks 3-3 in. long, calyx lobes § in., finally spreading ; 
capsule } or more, wall thick somewhat angular, seeds 
almost velvety ; for other characters as the former species. 
like the last species, but flowers white or yellowish 
with a purple spot at the base, on ‘ew-flowered stalks, 
capsule ovoid, seeds densely brown-velvety. 
like the last species, but perennial, flower stalks long, 
flowers larger, pale purple or white with a dark spot, 
see Water Plants, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 
like the last described species, but annual, leaves 
larger, heart-shaped or with forked base or oblong, blunt- 
pointed, flowers white or yellowish in compact clusters 
on short stalks. 
