108 CONTOLVULACE^. [MEREEMIA. 



Stems filiform, creeping and rooting at the 

 nodes, not twining ; leaves usually reni- 

 form, obtuse ; peduncles short or none, 

 few-flowered, seeds glabrous . . . 5. M . emarginata. 



1. M. crispatula, Prain Beng. PI. 730; Ipornsea pataloidea, Chois. ; 

 F. B. I. iv, 212. 



A large glabrous climber. Leaves 3-5 in. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute 

 rounded or subcordate at the base ; upper smaller, narrower, petioles 

 about 1^ in. long. Flowers, subracemose, on peduncles -1 iu. long, 

 pedicels often up to 1 in. long, bracts caducous. Sepals f-in. long, elliptic- 

 ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous. Corolla yellow, If-in. long, shaggy 

 outside. Capsule | in. long, ovoid. Seeds minutely velvety, margins 

 subvillous. 



N. Oudh (E. Thompson, Duthie). Flowers during April and May. DISTRIB. 

 Behar, Chota Nagpur, Orissa and southwards to the Godaveri, extend- 

 ing to Lower Burma. 



VAE. pauciflora, Ipomsea petaloidea, var. pauciflora, C. B. Clarke in F. B. 

 I.I.C.; Prain Nov. Ind. vii (1894), 99 Leaves all narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate. Peduncles 1- rarely 2-flowered. In the Sub-Himalayan tracts 

 of N. Oudh and Gorakhpur (Duthie). Flowers in May. DISTKIB. 

 Kumaon ^Dr. T. Thomson), Pegu (Kurz). Upper Burma (Collett). 



2. M. tridentata, Hallier f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 552 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 730; Cooke Fl. Bomb.ii, 237. Convolvulus tridentatus, Linn.; Roxb. 

 FL Ind. i y 475. Ipomaea tridentata, Roth; F. B. I. iv, 205. 



A small glabrous perennial herb. Stems many, elongate, not twining, 

 decumbent from a small woody rootstock. Leaves sessile or nearly 

 so, ^-1 in. long, linear-hastate oblong-obovate or subquadrate, the apex 

 obtuse truncate or 3-toothed. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, wiry, as long 

 as or longer than the leaves ; buds acute ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; 

 pedicels subclavate. Sepals - in. long, elliptic, mucronate, glabrous. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, |-| in. long, pale-yellow with a pink eye, limb 

 with shallow lobes. Capsule in. in diam., ovoid, glabrous, 2-celled. 

 Seeds dark, glabrous. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth, Duthie). Flowers Oct. to Dec. DISTRIB. 

 Bengal and Central Provinces to S. India And Ceylon ; extending to the 

 Malay Peninsula, Trop. Africa and Madagascar. 



3. M. hastata, Hallier f. in. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 552 ; Prain Beng. 

 PL 730; Coo'ke Fl. Bomb, ii, 238; Ipomgaa angustifolia, Clarke in F. B. 

 I. iv, 205 (not of Jacq., nor of Chois.). I. filicaulis, Bl. ; Royle III. 207 ; 

 Convolvulus medius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i,474. 



A diffuse twining biennial herb. Stems angular. Leaves subsessile, 

 2-3 in. long, hastate-oblong or hastate-linear, tapering gradually to the 



