7. PoRANA.] 96. CONVOLVULACE.E. 



equal and small, very accrescent in fruit, developing into large 

 veined wings. Corolla iisually small, campanulate or somewhat 

 funnel-shaped or salver-shaped Avith broad-lobed spreading limb. 

 Fil. slender, anthers linear to lanceolate. Disc aniilar or 0. Ovary 

 2 celled, with 2-4 ovules. Fruit small 1 -seeded, usually finally 

 ^-valved. Seeds smooth. 



1. P. paniculata, Roxb. Era-bair, K. ; Panjot-nari, S. ; Bhudia-lar, 

 Khariv. ; The Bridal Creeper. 

 A beautiful climber forming large pure Avhite patches in the 

 jungle with its innumerable, panicled, small white flowers, and softly 

 Avhite-tomentose ovate-cordate leaves. 



Ramnag'ar Hills, common ! Rajmahal Hills, common ! Stony nalas, banks, and 

 northern sides of hills and ghats, throughout Chota Nagpur ! Fl. Oct. -Dec. 

 Fr. Jan. 



Shoots tomentose. L. 1" by -5" to 5" by .3'', rarely lower leaves 6" diam., acute or 

 acuminate, base 5-6-nerved. Calyx in fl. '05" long. Corolla *25-'3" long tubular- 

 funnel-shaped. Fruiting sepals all equally enlarged or sometimes three '75 by '25" 

 and two linear only •25" long. Capsule membranous globose hairy or tomentose 

 "2" diam. 



8. MINA, Llave et Lex. 

 Flowers Avith a very short corolla from which the stamens and style 

 are far exserted and someAvhat declinate. Calyx very short, sepals 

 equal. Corolla Avith a very short tubular basal portion and a Avider 

 tvibular-campanulate longer upper 5-lobed portion. 



1. M. lobata, L. S^ L. 



A climber very commonly grown in gardens with dichasial cymes of orange and 

 scarlet flowers in elongate dichasial racemiform cj^mes. Leaves palmately lobed. 



9. CALONYCTION, Choisy. 

 Twining, large often muricate or prickly herbs Avith simple cordate 

 leaA^es and very large Avhite or purple flowers in axillary feAv-fld. 

 dichasial cymes, i-arely solitary. Corolla salver-shaj^ed Avith very 

 long narroAV cylindrical tube and a broad spreading scarcely lobed 

 margin. Stamens exsert, sometimes very slightly. Stigma Avith 2 

 rounded lobes. Fruit mod.-sized, 2-celled but often Avith false 

 dissepiments betAveen the seeds. 



Flowers white. Pedicel not usually clavate in fruit .... \. hona-nox. 

 Flowers purple. Pedicel very clavate in fruit 2. muricata. 



1. I. bona-nox, Boj., var. grandiflora. Syn. Ipomaea Bona-nox, i. ; 



C. speciosum, Choisy ; Ipomsea grandiflora, Roxb.; Dudhia-kalmi, 



halkalmi, Beng. ; Kunja lata. Or. ; Moon-floAver. 



A large glabrous tAviner Avith the stems sometimes muricate. 



Leaves broadly ovate cordate acute or acuminate Avith petioles about 



as long as the blades. FloAvers 3-5" diam., pure white or Avith 



greenish plaits on 1-5-fld. peduncles 2-6" long; pedicels short, 



sometimes wider upAvards but not greatly thickened in fruit. Capsule 



1" ovoid oblong. Seeds glabrous. 



Wild in Northern Purneah and the :Mals of Orissa ! Frequently cultivated for the 

 large beautiful fragrant flowers which open of an evening and close the following 

 morning. Fl. r.s. and up to Dec. 



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