Plants of the Punjab, 611 
CLIMBING PLANTS witH ALTERNATE ExstIPpULATS SimpLe LEAvEs, 
Ipomeea Turpethum, 
Chita bansa. 
CoNVOLVULACER. 
BoB, iv.-212, 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Ipomeea pilosa, 
CoNVOLVULACER. 
ed 6 Ae geal 
The Plains to 
8,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla. 
Subathu (Collett). 
Koti. ; 
Calystegia hederacea, 
Convolvulus 
glomeratus, 
var. Volubilis, 
CoNVOLVULACER, 
Be Bek iv. 209; 
The Plains. 
Convolvulus 
arvensis, 
Lesser Bindweed, 
Hiranpaddi. 
CoNVOLVULACE. 
FB. Be Liv. 219, 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Lahore, Delhi, 
Rawalpindi. 
Porana paniculata, 
CoNVOLVULACE. 
B. Bakr. 223. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
PETALS UNITED. 
like the last species, but stem stouter, square, winged, 
flattened or almost round, leaves larger, ovate or oblong, 
flowers in few-flowered clusters, capsule much larger, 
seeds smooth. The bark of the root, turbud, is superior 
to jalap without the nauseous taste of the latter. 
like the last species, but hairy, leaves broadly ovate, 
often 3-lobed, white, woolly beneath, corolla small, purple, 
capsule smaller. 
see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple. 
stems distinctly twining ; leaves and heads larger than 
Convolvulus clomeratus, to which refer under Herbs, Erect, 
Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, Entire. 
annual, smooth or almost velvety, stems twining, some- 
times prostrate; leaves 1-3 in., ovate-heart-shaped, base 
lobed or forked, stalk 4-3 in. ; flowers 2-1 by 1 in., purple 
with white or yellowish centre, solitary or 2-3 on an axil- 
lary stalk, bracts small, calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate, 
blunt, corolla tube very : hort, mouth wide, funnel-shaped, 
almost 5-lobed, folding at the angles, stamens 5 on the 
corolla tube at the base, unequal, style single, dividing 
into 2 short linear stigmas; capsule 4-4 in., 4-valved, 
smooth, seeds 4. A common weed of cultivation. The 
root, hiranpaddi, is used as a substitute for jalap. 
perennial, lofty twining climber, densely softly felted’ 
branches long, drooping ; leaves 8-5 by 2-3 in., ovate, heart" 
shaped, stalked, entire, long-pointed, velvety above, fel” 
ted beneath ; flowers 4-4 in., white, crowded in terminal 
drooping branching racemes, bracts persistent, calyx 
lobes 5, ~z in., 8 enlarging in fruit, corolla bell-shaped, 
very shortly lobed, smooth, stamens 5, style very short, 
stigma barely 2-lobed ; capsule } in. diam., round, hairy, 
3 enlarged calyx lobes, 2 by 4 in., blunt, velvety, 2 othey 
lobes + in., linear, seed one, 
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