96. CONVOLVULACEjE. [11. Ipomcea. 



Lea%-es with deep sinus and rounded basal lobes, otherwise entire and not lobed, 

 tip sometimes shortly caudate. Calj'x -i-'S", sepals with mucronate or cuspidate 

 tips, not or scarcely enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube 2'a-3". 



2. C. muricatum, G. Don. Syn. Ipomsea muricata, Jacq. 



A less robust climber Avith the stems murieate Avith soft prickles, 

 leaves glabrous 3-5" or sometimes 6", broadly ovate cordate ending' 

 in a long- acumen or shortly caudate or acute. Flowers pale pink or 

 purple sometimes only 3-4 racemiform on a peduncle or more cymose, 

 often appearing spicate in fruit from the extraordinary development 

 of the pedicel which is thickly clavate for its whole 1'25-1"5" length 

 and looks like a large inferior ovary. Sepals '5" ending in a long 

 cvisp or acumen, keeled. Corolla-tube 1-2" long by "2" long, limb 

 about 1" long. Young fruit often pink. Capsule o-l" diam. globose, 

 apiculate. Seeds smooth. 



N. Champaran ! Hazaribag-h ! Palamau, common ! But nearly always near 

 villages. Fl., Fr. Sept.-Dec. 



10. QUAMOCLIT, Toumef. 

 Twining herbs with simple cordate or lobed or, rarely, pinnate 

 leaves and usually showy funnel-shaped or sub-salver-shaped (with 

 weakly funnel-shaped tu.be) flowers in axillary long-peduncled umbel- 

 late cymes. Sepals eqvial, usually with cuspidate tips. Coi'olla-tube 

 broader upwards often constricted under the spreading limb. Stamens 

 exsert. Ovary and fruit 4-celled by false dissepiments betAveen the 

 seeds. The rest as in Ipomsea. 



L. simple ovate cordate 1. coocinea. 



L. pinnate with filiform segments 2. vulgaris. 



1. Q. coccinea, Moench. Syn. Ipomsea coccinea, L. ; Quamoclit 



phcenicea, Clioisy. 



A slender herbaceous climber with broadly ovate cordate leaves 

 1 •5-2-5" long and fcAV-flowered long-peduncled cymes of visually deep 

 crimson very pretty flowers with the narroAvly funnel-shaped tube, 

 1-1-2" long and limb about •7--9" diam. ; sometimes yellow or orange 

 flowers are fovmd. 



More or less naturalised throughout the province. Very common in gardens. 

 Fl., Fr. r.s. and c.s. 



Stems and branches puberulous or somewhat hispidulous. Leaves glabrous, tip 

 usually rounded. Calyx •15--2" including the long subulate tips of the sepals. 

 Ovary 4-celled. Capsule *25--27", ovoid with membranous septa. 



2. Q, vulgaris, Choisy. Syn. Ipomsea Quamoclit, L. ; Q. pinnata, 



BoJ. 



A very graceful slender climber Avith pinnate leaves 2-5" long with 

 numerous filiform segments and brilliant crimson, or sometimes 

 Avhite, floAvers of about the same size and shape as the last. 



Very common in gardens and also often self-sown, Fl., Fr. chiefly r.s. 



Both species are natives of Tropical America. 



11. IPOMCEA, L. 



Twining, more rarely prostrate, rarely erect herbs or shrubs Avith 

 simjDle entire or lobed usually cordate-based or sometimes palmately 

 compound leaves. FloAvers often showy ; solitary or cymose. Sepals 



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