204 ci. CONVOLVULACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Ipomcea. 



VAR. lobata ; leaves 3-7-lobed sometimes nearly to the base, lobes narrowed near 

 their bases, capsule f in. diam. papery glabrous, seeds ellipsoid minutely adpressedly 

 fulvous-silky with braid-like markings. S. Deccan Peninsula ; Wight, Stocks, Law. 

 Wight has named this /. kepaticifolia, Burm., from which it recedes in the dis- 

 tinctly-cordate ovate bracts. 



20. I. pes-tigridis, Linn. Roxb. Fl. 2nd., ed. Carey $ Wall ii. 93 ; 

 hairy, leaves deeply 5-9-lobed, heads pedimcled, outer bracts ovate or elliptic 

 oblong not cordate, corolla medium-sized funnel-shaped pink. Blume Bijd. 

 709 ; Wight Ic. t. 836 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 73, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 363 ; 

 Dais. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 165. Convolvulus pes-tigridis, Spreng. Syst. i. 592 ; 

 Watt. Cat. 1374. 0. bryonifflfolius, Salisb. Prod. 125. Convolvuloides pal- 

 mata, Moench. Meth. 452. Rheede Hort. Mai. xi. t. 59. 



Throughout INDIA from the Punjab to Malacca and Ceylon, frequent in the drier 

 low hills. DISTRIB. Malaya, China, Polynesia, Tropical Africa. 



Stems twining, patently hirsute. Leaves 1-5 in. diam., hirsute on both surfaces ; 

 lobes elliptic, acuminate, narrowed at the base ; petiole 1-2 in. Peduncles ^-3 in. ; 

 heads dense, fulvous-hirsute, outer bracts 1 in., inner smaller narrower acute." Sepals 

 ^ ^ in., lanceolate, acute, hirsute, hardly enlarged in fruit. Corolla 1 in., tube 

 narrow, mouth suddenly widened, sparsely hairy without. Capsule in., ovoid, 

 papery, glabrous. Seeds minutely velvety or nearly glabrous. 



VAR. kepaticifolia ; leaves 3-lobed or angular. I. hepaticifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 230 ; 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. 50, t. 20, fig. 2; Chois. Convolv. Or. 74, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 363. 

 Convolvulus hepaticifolius, Spreng. Syst. i. 594. S. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon ; 

 frequent. 



VAR. capitellata ; leaves ovate-cordate acute entire. I. capitellata, Chois. Convolv. 

 Or. 75, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 363. I. tamnifolia, Burm. FL Ind. 50, partly (as to 

 the Indian plant) not of Linn. Convolvulus capitellatus, Wall. Cat. 2250. Through- 

 out the Deccan extending north to Behar and Hindoostan ; not rare. A complete 

 series connects the /. pes-tigridis with its 3-lobate-leaved form, and another connects 

 it with the entire-leaved form. The entire-leaved form has been supposed to be 

 Wight's /. bracteata ; while on the other hand Wight supposed his /. bracteata with 

 lobed leaves to be /. hepaticifolia. The two species are easily separable, /. brac- 

 feata having bracts obtuse outer distinctly cordate : I. pes-tigridis bracts acute outer 

 not at all cordate. 



21. I. eriocarpa, Br. Prodr. 484; hairy, leaves oblong-cordate acute, 

 heads ses.-il^, bracts ovate-linear, corolla small campanulate pink, capsule 

 patently haiiy. Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 369 ; Benth. FL Austral, iv. 426. 

 I. sessiliflora,".Rotf/. JVcw. Sp. 116; Wight Ic. t. 169; Chois. Convolv. Or. 76, 

 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 366 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 166. I. hispida, Roem. # 

 Sch. Syst. iv. 238. I. ligulata, Bojer Hort. Maurit. 229. I. sphserocephala, 

 Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 372. I. 'Horsfieldiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 611. 

 Convolvulus eriocarpus and sessiliflorus, Spreng. Syst. i. 598, 599. C. sphaero- 

 cephalus, Roxb. Hort. Benq. 14, and Fl. Ind. i. 472, and ed. Carey 8f Wall. ii. 

 53; Wall. Cat. 1344. C. hispidus, Vahl Symb. 329. C. Rampania, Wall. 

 Cat. 225 (not now in Wallich's Herbarium). 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-4000 ft,; common. CEYLON; ascending to 4000ft. 

 DISTRIB. Affghanistan and Tropics of the Old World. 



Stems twining, patently villous. Leaves 2| by 1 in., sparsely hairy on both 

 surfaces; petiole 1 in. Peduncles 0, or (in one Hindoostan example of Thomson's) 

 -2 in. ; heads sometimes few-fld., rarely reduced to one subsessile flower ; bracts 

 in., hirsute; sepals similar to the bracts but smaller, unaltered in fruit. Corolla 

 in. Capsule \ in., globose. Seeds puberulous. 



22. I. Stocksii, Clarke-, hairy, leaves elliptic subacute, heads sessile, 

 bracts lanceolate inconspicuous, corolla small, capsule glabrous. 



