Ipomcea.'] ci. CONVOLVULACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 205 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Stocks. 



Stems prostrate, twining, patently hairy. Leaves 2 in., rhomboid, base obtuse or 

 subcordate ; petiole -! in. Bracts \ in., hispid. Sepals - in., elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, patently hispidulous. Capsule -^ in., ovoid, 2-celled, 4-seeded. Seeds furred, 

 margins villous. Near /. eriocarpa. 



* Flowers pedicelled, cymose, subracemose or solitary. 

 t Leaves undivided or angular or somewhat lobed, rarely deeply. 



'23. S. ang-ustifolia, Jacq. Ic. Ear. t. 317, not of Chois. ; glabrous, 

 leaves sessile hastate-oblong or -linear acute, peduncles long 1-3-fld., sepals 

 ovate acuminate, corolla small yellow. Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 425. I. den- 

 ticulata, Br. Prodr. 485; Sot. Reg. t. 317, not of Chois. I. tilicaulis, Blume 

 Bijd. 721 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 66, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 353; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 165 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5426. Convolvulus hastatus and angustifolius, 

 Lamk. Enc. iii. 542, 547. C. filicaulis, Vahl Sijmb. iii. 24. C. simplex, Pei-s. 

 Syn. i. 178. C. denticulatus, Spreng. Syst. i. 603. C. linifolius, Wall. Cat. 

 1380. ( 1 . medium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 474, and ed. Carey $ Wall. 256; Wall. 

 Cat. 1346, not of Linn. C. Blumii, Dietr. Syn. PL i. 675,Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 xi. t. 55. 



Hills of the DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; extending north to Bundelcund, 

 Edgeworth. KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-3000 ft. ; common, and thence to Malacca. 

 DISTRIB. S. E. Asia, Malaya, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



Diffuse, biennial, twining. Leaves l-3 in., more or less toothed. Peduncles 

 often longer than the leaves ; bracts minute, persistent ; pedicels long. Sepals \-^ 

 in. Corolla f in., funnel-shaped, eye purple. Capsule |- in., ovoid, papery, glabrous, 

 2-celled. Seeds glabrous. 



24. I. tridentata, Roth, Cat. Bot. ii. 19 ; glabrous, leaves sessile has- 

 tate-oblong or subquadrate obtuse truncate or 3-toothed, peduncles often as 

 long as the leaves 1-3-fld., sepals ovate acuminate, corolla small yellow. Chois. 

 Convolv. Or. 65, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 353; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 165. 

 Evolvulus tridentatus, Linn. Sp. PI 392 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 77, t. 16, fig. 3. 

 Convolvulus tridentatus, Linn. Sp. PL 157 ; Ro.vb. FL Ind. i. 475, and ed. 

 Carey $ Watt. ii. 56 ; Wall. Cat. 1347. Rheede Hort. Mai. xi. t. 65. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON ; frequent ; extending north to Chota Nagpore. 

 DISTRIB. Ava, Banca. 



Rootstock woody, giving off numerous, closely-prostrate, elongate stems. Leaves 

 usually less than 1 in., sometimes subemarginate, mucronate. Flowers, capsules and 

 seeds, nearly as of /. angustifolia, with which Thwaites (Enum. 211) unites-it; but 

 it is a smaller plant with smaller flowers, never twining. 



25. Z. linifolia, Blume Bijd. 721 ; sparsely hairy or glabrate, leaves 

 petioled narrowly oblong lower often subcordate ovate-oblong, peduncles few 

 or many-fid,, sepals elliptic obtuse glabrous, corolla small yellow, capsule 1- 

 celled 4-seeded. Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 369 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 423. 

 I. setulosa, Zoll. Verz. by Moritz. 51. Convolvulus csespitosus, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 14, and FL Ind. i. 483, and ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 70 ; Wall. Cat. 1357. 

 C. Benthamii, Wall. Cat. 1393. Hewittia caespitosa, Steud. Nom. Bot. 

 Skinneria ccespitosa, Chois. Convolv. Or. 105, t. 6, and in DC. Pt-odr. ix. 

 435. 



SUBTROPICAL SIKKIM, J. 1). H., &c. ASSAM and SILHET, frequent; Wallich, 

 Masters, &c., and thence to MALACCA. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago, Australia. 



Annual or biennial. Stems slender, much twining (creeping, Roxburgh}. Leaves 

 1^-2^ in., oblong, narrowed suddenly at both ends; lower often subcordate, some- 

 times ovate ; petiole - in. Peduncles 1-3 in., slender ; bracts minute, persistent. 



