186 Ci. CONVOLVULACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) [Argyreia. 



bracts caducous, sepals ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, berry dusky succulent com- 

 pletely 4-celled. A. populifolia, Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 329; and C. mala- 

 baricus, Watt. Cat. 1414 B ; the Goalpara plant only. 



ASSAM, Hamilton. SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., frequent, J. D. H., &c. 

 BHOTAN, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke. 



A large climber, ultimately glabrescent ; innovations villous or sometimes shin- 

 ing, subsericeous. Leaves 4-9 in., larger deeply cordate ; petiole long. Peduncles 

 31-2 in. ; bracts 5 in., narrow, caducous. Sepals ^ in. ; in fruit larger, acute. 

 Corolla 2-2^- in., tubular-funnel-shaped, sparsely hairy without, rose-coloured. Berry 

 | in. diam., globose. Convolvulus peduucularis, Wall. Cat. 1417, from Ava, is ex- 

 -ceedingly like A. Hookeri; but in it the fruiting sepals are f in., orbicular and 

 coriaceous. 



6. A . splendens, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 373 ; leaves elliptic acuminate 

 base rhomboid or rounded glabrous above silky-white beneath, corymbs 

 peduncled, bracts caducous, corolla-plaits hairy without, capsule papery 

 scarlet. Lettsomia splendens, JRoxb. Hort. Beng. 13, and Fl. 2nd. i. 487, and 

 ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 75 ; Wall. Cat. 1361. Ipomeea splendens, Bot. Mai). 

 t. 2628. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Griffith. CHITTAGONG ; Roxburgh ; at Seetakoond, H. f. $ T. 



A large climber. Leaves 7 by 4 in., never cordate ; petiole 3 in. Peduncles 1-4 

 in., few- or many-flowered. Sepals % in., ovate, obtuse, closely tomentose. Corolla 

 1^ in., tubular-campanulate, rose-coloured. Fruit (with the sepals) as of A. Wallichii. 

 Convolvulus Finlaysonianus, Wall. Cat. 6607, from Cochin-China, is closely allied, 

 but the leaves are elliptic and ovate subcordate. A. acufa, Lour. (Chois. in DC. 

 Prodr. xix. 333) is exceedingly near, but has the corymbs slenderer, smaller flowers, 

 and sepals elliptic-oblong with adpressed silvery hairs. 



7. A. obtecta, Clarke ; leaves elliptic or oblong acute at both ends pilose 

 above silky-strigose beneath, peduncles short, bracts caducous, sepals short 

 ovate obtuse, corolla hirsute without, capsule papery red. Convolvulus ob- 

 tectus, Wall. Cat. 1416. Eivea? obtecta, Chois. Convolv. Or. 28, and in DC. 

 Prodr. ix. 326. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Tavoy and Amherst, Wallich ; Mergui, Griffith ; Tenasserim, 

 Heifer. 



A large climber. Leaves 5 by 2^ in., beneath tawny or whiteish ; petiole in. 

 Peduncles |-l in. Flower and fruit nearly as in A. splendens, but sepals and corolla 

 more hirsute. Ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled. Known from A. splendens by the short 

 petioles, from A. lanceolata by the peduncled corymbs. 



VAB. obtusifolia ; leaves obtuse almost emarginate. Tavoy ; Griffith. An 

 example in Herb. Wight, named by him ConvolviUus laurifolius. This may be A. 

 obtusifolia, Lour. (Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 333), of which the fragments at the British 

 Museum consist of branchlets, fruits, and a fragment of one leaf. 



8. A. lanceolata, Chois. Convolv. Or. 39, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 331 ; 

 leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate pilose above shining silky beneath, flowers 

 axillary subsessile 1-3 together, bracts inconspicuous, sepals elongate-oblong, 

 corolla hairy without. Convolvulus argyrophyllus, Wall. Cat. 1395. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Martaban and Tavoy, Wallich', Moulmein, Parish; Tenas- 

 serim or Andamans, Heifer. 



Stems twining, slender. Leaves 5 by f in., or shorter and broader, base cuneate 

 or rounded; petiole in. Sepals f by i in., oblong or lanceolate. Corolla l in., 

 tubular-campanulate. Capsule % in., globose, thin, not red (but unripe). The foliage 

 and corymbs are sometimes like those of A. obtecta, from which it is distinguished 

 by the elongate sepals. 



