11. IpoMfEA.] 9G. CONVOLVULACE.E. 



bright rose-purple, darker in the throat, 1-2 rarely 3 on peduncles 

 about as long as the leaves. Sepals oblong or ovate obtuse, the two 

 outer smaller, transversely rugose towards the base. Capsule 5" 

 ovoid, glabrous. Seeds villosely tomentose. 



On the sands along the sea-face from Balasore southwards ! Fl., Fr. most of the 

 year. 



Rarely twining. Petiole 1-i". Peduncle 1-4", bracts "2" lanceolate, caducous, 

 pedicels "G-l-?" stout. Sepals S-'G". Corolla lo-2" lono-, scarcely lobed. 



Useful as a sand-binder. Boxburgli states that it is eaten by horses and goats. 



16. I. sepiaria, Koen. 



A slender, rather variable, twiner glabrous (in our area) or 

 pubescent with ovate cordate or hastate, or sub-3-lobed acute 

 acuminate or shortly caudate leaves 1-2" long, very slenderly pal- 

 mately 5-7-nerved with only 2 sec. n. above the base. Flowers 

 delicate purple or white with a purple eye, l"5-2" long and about 

 Vo" diam. in sub-umbellate cymes, with short to long peduncles and 

 short pedicels, with very small bracts at their base. Sepals ovate- 

 oblong, •2-'25''' with scarious margins, sometimes '3" in fruit. Capsule 

 •25-'3" ovoid, 4-valved, 4-2-seeded. Seeds tomentose, black. 



Singbhum. occasional near streams ! Hazari1)ag-h. Avders. ; common in the 

 extreme south of the province. Balasore! Puri ! FL, Fr. Nov.-April. 



Branches sometimes pilose. Leaves sometimes with the basal lobes oblong and 

 as large as the terminal lobe, glabrous in our specimens, sometimes sinuate. 

 Petiole usually short, from half to five-eighths as long as the blade. Peduncles 

 •5-2'5' stout and thickened upwards especially in fruit, often 7-9-fld. rarel}- only 

 8-fld., pedicels •1--25" thick. Calyx quite glabrous, sepals with rounded often 

 minutely mucronate tips. Corolla-tube somewhat funnel-shaped or broader and 

 sub-cylindric, bands several-nerved. 



17. I. cymosa, Roein. 4' Sch. Syn. Merremia umbellata, Hallier, f. 

 The name umhellahis {Convolvulus urahellatiis, Wall. Cat.) does 

 not appear to have been published before cymosa. It is not the 

 name corresponding to the plate in Rwnphius. 



Stems long herbaceous scrambling, and sometimes rooting at the 

 nodes, usually not twining, slightly angular, young pubescent. 

 Leaves l'o-2*5" oblong or elliptic or lanceolate, Avith broadly cordate 

 c>r hastate base, upper sometimes linear and hastate, glabrous or 

 puberulous above and sometimes thinly hairy on the nerves beneath ; 

 petiole short pubescent or hairy on the upper side. Flowers white 

 or cream on axillary 2-several-fld. peduncles 'Zo-l'o" long, pubescent 

 at base, bracts subulate under '1". Pedicels •2-'5". Sepals -S-SS" 

 membranous or fleshy with scarious margins, elliptic, ell. -oblong or 

 somewhat ell.-obovate, obtuse and aristulate orapiculate, nerves very 

 obscure. Corolla 1"5" long (2* in var. macra, Clarl<e), pubescent at 

 the tip (best seen in bud), funnel-shaped from a tubular base •3" 

 long. Filaments slender, slightly dilated at base, glabrous, anthers 

 narrovv-oblong, not twisted, pollen irregularly globose, smooth. 

 Capsule 3" diam., globose, glabrous. Seeds '25" long, densely clothed 

 with long soft spreading hairs. 



In damp places. Bamur and Sambalpur, very common ! FI., Fr. Jan. -March. 



The species is extremely variable. l)e Va'ndoUe (Prodr., ix, 871) describes 

 three varieties, and /. cali/jiiiom. Choi»ij, is also supposed to be the same species, 

 but none of these closely resemble the large-leaved form descrilieil I)elo\V :— 



