80. CONVOLYULACEM. [9.Ipomba. 



Creeping or twining. L. about 3" by 1". Corolla 1" campanulate 

 hairy without. Chota Nagpur, Frain. 



9. I. calycina, Benth. 



A villous twiner with ovate-cordate hairy or glabrate leaves 2-3'' and 

 rose-coloured or white tubular-funnel-shaped flowers about §'' long. 

 Sepals enlarged in fruit ultimately cordate or sagittate. 



Chota Nagpur, Train. 



10. I. hispida, Boem. Syn. 1. eriocarpa, F.B.I. 



A slender very hairy twiner with narrow lanceolate to 

 deltoid or ovate acuminate cordate-based leaves and axillary 

 dense capitate cymes of small purple campanulate or urceolate 

 flowers. 



Not uncommon in jungle and Arhar fields, Singbhnm ; Palamau, 

 Gamble ! Mahretta and Jaspur, Wood. Fls., r.s. Fr. Sept.-Nov. 



L. 2^- 3' Cymes £'' diam. sometimes with a peduncle \-\''. Sepala 

 very imbricate hairy 2 outer with long cusp. Capsule 2-4-valved 

 globose hairy, £'' diam. 



11. I. obscura, Ker. 



A slender twiner with hairy stems, sub-orbicular or ovate 

 deeply cordate leaves. Corolla f" diam. yellow or white with 

 the bands yellowish and always with a purple eye. 



Rudia-Lotwa Tea Estate, Wood ; Palamau, frequent in the west in 

 hedgerows. 



Fls., Fr. Oct.~Dec. 



L. about 2>\' r each way, hairy, petiole \\*. Peduncles axillary 1-2-fld. 

 \-V long, pedicels nearly as long clavate upwards. Capsule ovoid $* 

 2 (-4) -valved with 4 brown velvety seeds;. 



12. I. barlerioides, Benth. 



Hirsute, leaves ovate-oblong peduncles 1-fld. 1-4" long. Corolla 

 2-3i" long, 2£" diam. purple or purplish-white. 



Chota Nagpur, C. B. Clarke. 



13. I. reptanSi Poir. Syn. I aquatica, F.B.I. 



" Creeping or floating with narrow b:- state or cordate leaves 3-6'' long, 

 long petole and pale-purple fls. 2 7 long by If, or fls. white with a 

 purple eye. Seeds glabrous or minutely hairy. 



Ponds and muddy places. Singbhum, Palamau, but not common in 

 Chota Nagpur. Fla. Nov. -March and at other times. Tender shoots eaten 



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