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and toothed at the base, flowers solitary long-stalked, yellow. 

 Never twining (S.). Bhoria. Bassein and Ghorabandar (D.). I. 

 cTiryseides, a very delicate and pretty climber, leaves heart-shaped, 

 pointed, sometimes lobed, flowers small, yellow, few to a peduncle, 

 capsule wrinkled, rough. Dhamapore. Wari country (Z>.). Through- 

 out India (#.) * -^ reniformis, small, stems creeping close to the 

 ground, leaves kidney-shaped or ovate cordate, flowers very small, 

 yellow, outer sepals smaller, seeds dark chestnut. Undirkdni. In 

 places where water has lodged, Konkan and Deccan (Z>. and #.). 

 I. campanulata, a large climber, smooth or nearly so, leaves large, 

 cordate acute, long petioled, flowers large and handsome in corymbs, 

 rose-coloured or purple, always prominently lobed. Mddvel. I am 

 not certain of my identification of this, but D. and G. have it in the 

 hilly parts of the Konkan and the Ghauts. * I. rhyncorhiza, a smooth 

 climber, leaves deeply 7-lobed, lobes often pinnatifid, peduncles 

 long, with one or two large yellow flowers. Konkan, Syhadris, and 

 Ghauts. Dalzell and Stocks ; not known otherwise. 



Jalap (from Xalapa, a city of Mexico) is made from the root of 

 I. purga. 



5. CONVOLVULUS. 



1. C. microphyllus. A small prostrate plant, covered with 

 white or tawny hairs, leaves lanceolate or oblong, flowers small, 

 solitary, or few together, pale pink, capsule smooth. 



Guzerat, N. Konkan, and Sind. 



2. C. arvemis. A twiner, leaves narrow, sagittate, auricled, 

 flowers pink and white, beautifully blended, one or two to a 

 penduncle, bracts 2, distant from the flowers, capsule smooth. 

 Haranpag. 



The common English field bindweed. Common in Guzerat and the 

 Deccan. A weed of cultivation (if.). 



" A low breath 



Of tender air made tremble in the hedge 

 The fragile bindweed bells, and briony rings." Tennyson. 



" In all fair hues from white to mingled rose, 

 Along the hedge the clasping bindweed flowers, 



Along the hedge, besides the trodden lane 



Where day by day we pass, and pass again." A. Webster. 



C. Rottlerianus, erect, branched, hairy, leaves sessile linear, 

 flowers small, star-like, pink, capsule size of a small pea, seeds 

 warty. Deccan. Kattywar also (D.). 



* C. parviflorus, a weak twiner, leaves ovate, cordate, acute, 

 flowers numerous, white or pink in cymes or umbels, lobes acute, 

 capsule and seeds smooth. Caranjah, Surat, etc. (D.) . 



