JACQUEMONTIA.] CONVOLVULACE^. 107 



J. pvniculata, Hallicr f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 541 ; xviii, 95 ; 

 Prain Beng. PL 739; Qooke Fl. Bom, 1 ) ii, 235. Convolvulus parviflorus, 

 Vahl.; Eixb. FL Ind. i, 471; F. B. I. iv, 220 ; Watt. E. D. 



A slender twining puberulous harb. Leave* 1^-3 in. long, ovate cordate 

 acute or acuminate, entire, pubescent beneath, nearly glabrous above 

 pjtioles $-1 in, long, pubescent, flowers white, peduncles longer than 

 the petioles. Sepal* % in. long, ovate, cordate, acuminate, pubescent, 

 not enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, in. long, mouth narrow, limb 

 shortly and acutely 5-lobed. Capsule glabrous, in. in diam. Seeds 

 slightly tubereulate on the back. 



Bundelkhand (Duthie), Saugor (Jerdon). Flowers Oct. and Nov. DISTRIB. 

 Oent. Provinces and Bombay to S. India and Ceylon ; also in 

 Assam extending to the Malay Peninsula, N. Australia and Trop. Africa. 



9. MERREMIA, Pennat. 

 UNDER IPOM^EA IN FL. BRIT. IND. 



Shrubs or herbs usually climbing. Stems rarely winged. Leaves 

 entire lobed or divided. Flowers axillary, usually on long peduncles 

 solitary or in few-flowered (rarely many- flowered) cymes, bracts small. 

 Sepals gabequaly elliptic or lanceolate and usually acuminate, convex 

 usually slightly enlarged and thickened in fruit. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped or campanulate, usually white, the 5 vertical bands usually 

 defined by dark violet lines ; limb plicate, the margin slightly lobed. 

 Stamens unequal, included or exserted ; filaments filiform, anthers 

 usually twisted ; pollen usually with longitudinal folds, never spinu- 

 lose. Ooary 2-4-celled, style tiliform ; stigmas 2, globose, ovules 4. 

 Fruit a 4-valved capsule, 1-4-celled, the style sometimes separating 

 with a small operculum. Seeds 4, rarely fewer, dull and usually 

 glabrous. Species about 40, in the warmer regions of the world. 



Corolla large, shaggy outside ; seeds minutely 



velvety, margins subvillous . . . . 1. M. crispatula. 

 Corolla under 1 in. long, not shaggy outside. 

 Buds long, aoute ; leaves subsessile, oblong- 

 hastate or linear-hastate. 

 Prostrate but never twining ; leaves obtuse 



truncate or 3-toothed at the apex . 2. If. tridentata. 



A twining herb, leaves gradually tapering 



to the apex . . . . . 3. N. hastata. 



Buds short, globose ; leaves distinctly 

 petioled, not hastate. 



Stems twining ; leaves ovate, cordate, 

 acute ; peduncles distinct, often long, 

 many-flowered ; seeds velvety-pubescent 4. M. cliryseides. 



