Ipomcea.'] ci. CONVOLVULACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 199 



5. I. coccinea, Linn. ; Bot. Mag. t. 221 ; leaves ovate-cordate acute 

 glabrous, sepals elliptic suddenly acuminate, seeds densely furred. Roxb. Sort. 

 Bemj. 14; Andr. Sot. Rep. t. 499; Meissn. in Mart. Brasil. viii. 217, with syn. 

 I. luteola, Jacq. Ic. Rar. i. t. 35 ; Blume Bijd. 711. I. phrenicea, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 14, and FL Ind. i. 502, and ed. Carey 8f Wall. ii. 92. Convolvulus 

 coccineus and luteolus, Spreng. Syst. i. 599. 0. pliceniceus, Spreng. Syst. i. 596 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1372. Quanioclit coccinea, Moench Hort. Marb. 453; Chois. in 

 DC. Prodi: ix. 335, with syn. Q. phcenicea, Chois. Convolv. Or. 51, t. 1, fig. 1, 

 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 336. 



Cultivated and quasi-wild throughout INDIA, erroneously supposed by Eoxburgh 

 to be a native of Coromandel. Introduced from tropical America. 



Stems subscandent, weak. Leaves 2-4 in. diam.. entire or lobed ; petiole 24 in. 

 Peduncles 2-6 in., slender ; cyme lax, few or many-flowered ; bracts inconspicuous. 

 St'pals \ in., unaltered in fruit. Corolla crimson, in garden varieties orange or 

 yellow; tube 1 in., mouth f in. diam. Ovary completely 4-celled. Capsule 5 in. or 

 rat) i or more, ovoid, smooth, completely 4-celled ; dissepiments thin, membranous, per- 

 sistent. 



(>. I. Quamoclit, Linn. ; Bot. Mag. t. 244 ; leaves pinnate segments 

 numerous linear, sepals elliptic, seeds' nearly glabrous. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14, 

 and FL Ind. i. 502, and ed. Carey # Wall. ii. 93 ; Blume Bijd. 708 ; Meissn. in 

 Mart. Brasil. vii. 217, with syn. Convolvulus pennatus, Lamk. Enc. iii. 567. 

 C. Quamoclit, Spreng. Syst. i. 591 ; Wall. Cat. 1375. Quamoclit vulgaris, 

 Chois. Convolv. Or. 52, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 336. Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. 

 t. 155, fig. 2. ; Rheede Hort. Mai. xi. t. 60. 



Common throughout INDIA, in gardens and as a denizen; native of tropical 

 America. 



A slender, glabrous twiner. Leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., segments distant. Peduncles 

 fe \v-flowered. Corolla crimson or white. Flowers and capsules nearly as of /. 



cocci, 



STBGIINUS III. 2Pliajrbitis, Chois. in. DC. Prodr. ix. 341 (genus). Corolla- 

 tnbe. narrow. Anthers included. Ovary 3-celled, 6-ovuled. Capsule 3-celled, 

 6-4-seeded. 



7. X. hederacea, Jacq. Collect, i. 124, and Ic. Rar. i. t. 3d; hairy, leaves 

 ovate-cordate 3-lobed lobes ovate acuminate, peduncles 1-5-fld. mostly shorter 

 than the petioles, sepals elliptic elongate-linear patently hirsute near the base, 

 seeds glabrous. Bot. Reg. t. 85 ; Blume Bijd. 710 ; Meissn. in Mart. Brasil. 

 vii. 

 Carey 

 and 



Convolvulus nil, Linn. ; Bot. Mag. t. 188. C. hederaceus, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 

 1373. C: Dillenii, Lamk. Enc. iii. 544. C. cceruleus, Spreng. Syst. i. 693. 

 Convolvuloides triloba, Moench Hort. Marb. 452. Pharbitis hederacea and 

 nil, Chois. Convolv. Or. 57, 58, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 343, 344. P. diversifolia, 

 Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1988. P. variifolia, Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 390. 

 P. Purshii, punctate and barbata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 263, with many other 

 syn. 



INDIA; both cultivated and apparently wild, common. DISTKIB. Tropical and 

 subtropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Stem twining, sparsely retrorsely hirsute. Leaies 2-5 in. diam. ; petiole 1-4 .in. 

 Peduncles rarely longer than the petioles ; pedicels usually in. ; bracts 2, g^n., 

 linear, close to the calyx. Sepals -1 in., subequal, narrowly linear upwards, very 

 hirsute, or nearly glabrous near the base. Corolla l-J-2 in., tubular-funnel-shaped, 

 rose-coloured, blue, or somewhat orange below. Anthers never twisted. Capsule 



