2O4 The E lowering Plants of Western India. 



petioles long, flowers large, rose-coloured, several to a peduncle, 

 sepals ovate. Pdnvel, ndri, ndlichi Mji. 



Common in tanks, Konkan and Guzerat. Throughout India 

 common, often cultivated as a vegetable (#.) 



13. T. turpethum. An extensive twiner, all covered with 

 hairs, stem angled and winged, leaves various, cordate or 

 sagittate or lobed, peduncles two or three together, each with 

 three or four rather large white or pinkish flowers, sepals broad 

 ovate, concave enlarged in fruit, seeds black, size of a pea. 

 Dudh kalmi, tevari, ted, nishottar. 



Remarkable in this order for being full of milky juice. Guzerat, 

 Deccan, and Konkan. Throughout India, common (H.). 



14. I. biloba (I. pescaprce, D.). Goat's foot convolvulus. 

 Large, creeping on the ground, leaves of two round lobes joined 

 on the inner edge (like Bauhinia), flowers peduncled, large, 

 reddish purple, sepals ovate lanceolate, capsule round, smooth, 

 seeds very hairy. Chdgal kun, dobati luta, maryddvel. 



Very common on the sea-shore, covering large patches of sand. It 

 is said to grow all round the world in the tropics, and was the first 

 plant that Kingsley saw in the W. Indies, growing just as with us. 



15. /. vitifolia. A. large climber, rather hairy, leaves like 

 those of the common vine, long petioled, peduncles long, flowers 

 large of a very delicate yellow, capsule much smaller than the 

 calyx, seeds grey. Nauli. 



One of the most beautiful of the order, but not common, I think. 

 S. Konkan. Throughout India (H ). " In Deccan gardens pretty 

 common " ((?.); but I have not seen it so. 



* I. laciniata (Pharbitis I. D.), slender, leaves digitate with seven 

 narrow serrated or pinnatifid lobes, sepals thick and fleshy, flowers 

 large, white, tube long, purple within, capsule 3-celled. Mai wan, 

 Belgaum, Bombay, etc. (-D.). * ! dissecta (I. coptica, D.) prostrate, 

 hardly twining, leaves much as the last, flowers very small, white, 

 sepals wrinkled, muricated, capsule 6-valved. Khandala, creeping 

 among grass (D.). I. uniflora (Aniseia u. t D.), small, leaves oblong, 

 linear, flowers solitary, small, white, long-stalked, capsule ovoid. 

 S. Konkan. Throughout India (H.) ; varies greatly in hairiness 

 apparently. I. calycina (Aniseia c. D.), hairy, leaves ovate, cordate, 

 acute, flowers one to three together on short peduncles, small, white, 

 the outer sepals sagittate. Guzerat. Deccan (H.). I. angustifolia 

 (I. filicaulis, D.), small, creeping, smooth, stem angular, leaves narrow, 

 hastate and toothed at the base, flowers small, yellow, with dark 

 throat. Konkan and Deccan. I. tridentata, small, prostrate, with 

 many stems from the root, leaves very small and narrow, auricled 



