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apex, "basal lobes coarsely dentate. Flowers 1-3, on slender peduncles 

 as long as or longer than the leares ; buds acute, bracts minute, pedicels 

 subclavate. Sepals |-| in. long, narrowly lanceolate, with acuminate 

 recurved tips, glabrous. Corolla funnel-shaped, f in. long, pale-yellow, 

 with a purple or reddish eye, limb with shallow lobes. Capsule 2-celled, 

 4 in. in diam., ovoid, glabrous, surrounded by the slightly enlarged 

 sepals. Seeds glabrous. 



Bundelkhand (Edge worth). Flowers Aug. to Dec. DISTRIB. Khasia 

 Hills, Orissa, Bombay and southwards to Ceylon ; extending to China, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Australia and Trop. Africa. 



4. M. chryseides. HaUierf. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi, 55$; Prain 

 Beng. Pi. 730 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii,233. Ipomaa chryseides, Ker-Gawl. ; 

 F. B. I. iv, 206 ; Collett FL.l SimL. 337- Convolvulus dentatus, Vahl ; 

 Roxb. Ft. Ind. i, 477. 



An annual or perennial herb, twining or procumbent. Stems filiform, 

 branching, glabrous, or sometimes rough with prominent tubercles. 

 Leaves 1-3 in. long, ovate, acute, apiculate, often 3-lobed, entire or 

 toothed, glabrous, base deeply cordate, with rounded lobes, petioles 

 slender, 1-2 in. long, often muriculate. Flowers small, in dense 

 axillary cymes ; buds short, obtuse, peduncles -3-in. long ; bracts 

 minute, caducous, pedicels short. Sepals -in. long, oblong, truncate, 

 apiculate or obscurely toothed, glabrous, reflexed in fruit. Corolla 

 campanulate or funnel-shaped, yellow, -in. long, limb with triangular 

 lobes, bands distinctly striate. Stamens slightly exserted. Capsule 

 -in. long, ovoid or subquadrangular, 2-celled, glabrous, transversely 

 wrinkled. Seeds trigonous, yelvety-tomentose. 



Moradabad (T. Thomson), Pilibhit dist. (Duthie). Flowers Oct. and Nov- 

 DISTRIB. Himalaya up to 4,000 ft., ttengal, Bombay and southwards 

 to Southern India and Ceylon ; extending to Burma, China, Malaya, 

 Australia and Trop. Africa. 



5. M. emarginata, HaUierf. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvi., 552; Prain 

 Beng. PL 730 ; CooJce Fl.Bomb. ii, 236; Convolvulus reniformis, Roxb.; 

 Fl. Ind, i. 4S1. Ipoma reniformis, Chois.; F. B. I. iv, 206 ; Watt E. O. 



A prostrate creeping herb. Stems cord-like, rooting at the nodes, glabrous 

 or softly pubescent. Leaves -! in. broad, reniform or ovate-cordate, 

 obtuse, crenate-toothed, glabrous, often purplish or rust-coloured, 

 petioles 4-1 in. long. Floicers, yellow, solitary or 2-3 together on a short 

 peduncle ; buds short, globose, bracts inconspicuous, pedicels short. 

 Sepals slightly hairy on the back, the margins ciliate ; the 2 outer 

 sepals -in. long, ovate, mucronate ; 3 inner longer, subquadrate, 

 2-lobed. Corolla campanulate, ^-in. long ; lobes 5, acute. Capsule 

 2-celled, -in. in diam.; surrounded by the slightly enlarged ciliate 

 sepals. Seede 2-4i, brown, glabrous. 



