. CONVOLVULACE^. 113 



petioles densely hairy, up to | in. long. Flowers solitary, peduncles 

 longer or shorter than petioles ; bracts 2, at the base of the short 

 pedicel, % in. long, linear-lanceolate. Sepals densely villous, the 3 outer 

 i-f in. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute ; the 2 inner linear, acute and 

 smaller, all enlarged in fruit. Corolla purple, funnel-shaped, 2-3 in. 

 long, hairy outside, tube narrowed to the base ; limb subentire, plicate, 

 Capsule | in. long, ovoid, glabrous. Seeds oblong, hairy. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts of N. Oudh and Gorakhpur (R. Thompson and 

 Duthie), W. Himalaya up to 5,000 ft., and from Chota Nagpur south- 

 wards to Bombay and Southern India ; also in Upper Burma. 



3. I. hispida, R. $ S. Syst. iv, 23S ; Pram Beng. PI. 734. I. eri. ocarpa, 

 R. Br. ; F. B. 7. iv, 204 ; Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 336 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 



i, 243. Convolvulus sph^rocephalus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 472. 



A; twining annual. Stems slender, clothed with appressed or spreading 

 hairs. Leaves 2-3 in. long, ovate or oblong, acute, hairy on both surfaces 

 and along the margins, base cordate and with rounded lobes ; petiole 

 about 1 in. long, densely clothed with reflexed hairs. Flowers 2-3 in. 

 long, in subsessile heads, rarely solitary or more than three in a head ; 

 bracts small, linear, pedicels very short or none. Sepals nearly as long 

 as the corolla, hairy, not or hardly enlarged in fruit, ovate, acuminate. 

 Corolla campanulate, pink, -f in. long, the upper portion hairy and 

 with small tufts of ' hairs on the tips of the small acute lobs. Ovary 

 very hairy. Capsule ^ in. in diam., globose, 2-celled, hiery. Seeds 

 minutely foveolate. 



Dehra Bun, Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand (Edgeworth). Flowers September 

 and October. DISTRIB. Punjab to Afghanistan, and throughout India 

 and in Ceylon, up to 4,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; also in Burma and 

 generally throughout the tropics of the Old World. The leaves and 

 stems are often eaten as a vegetable. 



4. I. sindica, Stapf. in Kew Bull. (1894) 346 ; CooTce FL Bomb, ii, 244. 



Annual. Stems many from the base, prostrate, slender, hispid. Leaves 

 f-2^ in. long, narrowly triangular-hastate, acute or acuminate, hairy on 

 both sides or nearly glabrous above, basal lobes diverging, obtuse ; 

 petioles -f the length of blade, rather hispid. Flowers solitary or in 

 few-flowered cymes, peduncles and pedicels very short ; bracts shorter 

 than the calyx, linear or linear-subulate, hispid. Sepals -5 in. long, 

 lanceolate, hispid, somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla i in. long, 

 funnel-shaped ; limb broadly 5-lobed, minutely .pilose outside and at the 

 tips of '.the lobes. Capsule -J in. long, subglobose, glabrous. Seeds 

 black, thinly grey-velvety. 



Etawah district (Duthie). Flowers October. DISTRIB. Westwards to 

 Sirhind, Multan and Sind. This species much resembles I. hispida 

 which latter differs, however, by its larger flower-heads and bracts, its 

 hairy capsules and glabrous seeds. 



