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corolla small, yellow. Common in places where water has lodged ; 

 flowers in the cold weather. Syn. Convolvulus reniformis, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. ii, p 67 ; C gangeticus, Linn. ; Evolvulus emarginatus, 

 Burm. Ind. t. 30, jf. 1 ; E gangeticus, Linn. sp. 391. Found both 

 in the Concan and Deccan, and often overlooked. 



4. TRIDENTATA, Roth. Cat. ii, p 19. Herbaceous, annual; 

 stem filiform, angular ; leaves sessile, oblong-linear, truncate at 

 the apex, often 3-toothed, auricled and toothed at the base, scarcely 

 an inch long, smooth ; peduncles 1 -flowered, longer than the leaf; 

 sepals ovate, awned ; corolla pale-yellow. Near Bassein and 

 Chore Bunder. Syn. Convolvulus tridentatus, Linn. sp. p 157; 

 C viscidus, Roxb. Cat. 14; Evolvulus tridentatus, Linn. sp. 

 392. 



5. FILICAULIS, Blum. Bijdr. p 721. Stem elongated, rarely 

 twining, filiform, angular; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, shortly- 

 petioled, hastate and denticulate at the base, quite smooth ; pe- 

 duncles longer than the leaf, 1 to 2-flowered; pedicels clavate; sepals 

 ovate-acuminate; corolla small, pale-yellow. Common in the Con- 

 cans and Deccan also. Syn. Convolvulus filicaulis, Vahl. Symb. 

 iii, p 24 ; C hastatus, Desv. ; C simplex, Pers., &c. &c. 



6. CAMPANULATA, Linn. sp. 228. A large, climbing plant ; 

 stem striated, glabrous ; leaves large, cordate-acute, glabrous, 

 veined with red beneath, long-petioled ; peduncles many-flowered, 

 as long as the petioles; sepals ovate-rounded, glabrous; corolla 

 large, pale-rosy, deeper coloured at the base ; seeds silky. Hilly 

 parts of the Concan ; Warree, common. A very handsome species. 

 Syn. Convolvulus campanulatus, Spr. syst. i, 607. 



7. TURPETHUM, Br. Prod. 485. Stems angular; leaves 

 cordate, sometimes entire, sometimes sinuate-angled or crenated, 

 pubescent and velvetty on both sides ; peduncles thick, 1 to 4- 

 flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, velvetty, deciduous; exterior 

 sepals large; flowers white; seeds smooth; root thick, pur- 

 gative. Gujarat, very common ; Deccan. Bot. Mag. 2093; Syn. 

 Convolvulus turpethum, Linn. 



8. VITIFOLIA, Sw. Hort. Suburb, p 289. Stem round, hairy 

 or pubescent ; leaves cordate, palmately pentafid ; lobes unequal, 

 irregularly crenate and dentate ; peduncles many-flowered ; flowers 

 large, handsome, yellow ; appear in the cold weather. In a jungle 

 near Roha, plentiful ; hilly parts of the Concan generally. 



9. PESTIGRIDIS, Linn. sp. 230. Stems round, hairy ; leaves 

 palmately 5 to 7-lobed ; lobes ovate-acute, silky and hairy ; pe- 

 duncles many-flowered, as long as the leaf; heads of flowers sur- 

 rounded by 6 to 8 ovate-linear hairy bracts ; corolla white, hairy. 

 Very common in hedges. Syn. Convolvulus pestrigidis, Spr. ; C 

 begoiiieefolius, Sal. 



