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10. PILOSA, Sw. Hort. Sub. p 289. Stems hairy, herbaceous ; 

 leaves broadly-cordate, entire or slightly 3-lobed, the middle lobe 

 acuminate, 2 to 6 inches long, long-petioled ; peduncles longer 

 than the petioles; flowers many, cyiuose; sepals linear, hairy; 

 corolla tubular, white; capsules glabrous ; seeds villous. A common 

 weed. Syn. Convolvulus pilosus, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 55. 



11. PILEATA, Koxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 94. Stem slender, villous; 

 leaves cordate-acuminate, petioled, glabrous; peduncles shorter than 

 the petiole ; flowers 3 to 6, sessile, in a boat-shaped perfoliate 

 involucre ; bracts obovate, hirsute ; corolla tubular campanulate ; 

 capsule glabrous. Jungles in the Southern Concan; rare. Syn. 

 Convolvulus pileatus, Spr. syst. iv. p 6 1 . 



12. SESSILIFLORA, Roth nov. sp. 117. Stem herbaceous, 

 covered with hairs pointing downwards ; leaves cordate ovate- 

 lanceolate or sagittate; flowers axillary, 1 to 12, subsessile or very 

 shortly-pedicelled ; sepals acuminate subulate, hairy; corolla scarcely 

 longer than the calyx ; capsule hairy ; seeds glabrous. Fort o-f 

 Severndroog. Syn. Ipomaea spheerocephala, Sw. Hort. Sub. ; Con- 

 volvulus sessiliflorus, Spr. sysl. ; C hispidus, Vahl. Symb. iii, p 29 ; 

 C sphserocephalus, Roxb. Fl Ind. ; Wight Ic. t. 169. 



13. OBSCURA, Bot, Reg. 239. Stem herbaceous, elongated; 

 leaves cordate-acuminate, glabrous or puberulous, acute, reticulated 

 beneath, long-petioled ; peduncles longer than the petioles, 1 to 3- 

 flowered ; pedicels thick, articulated; sepals oblong-ovate, glabrous 

 or puberulous ; flowers yellow ; base of tube purple ; capsule glabrous. 

 Common about Bombay; the Deccan. Syn. Convolvulus obscurus, 

 Linn. sp. 220; C gemellus, Vahl. Symb. hi, p 27; Ipomeea 

 solanifolia, Burm. Ind. p 49. 



14. SEPIARIA, Keen, in Roxb. and Wall. Fl Ind. ii, p 90. 

 Twining; leaves cordate-oblong; peduncles many-flowered; heads 

 of flowers dense ; sepals oblong, ovate-acute or obtuse ; corolla 

 pinkish, tubular, funnel-shaped. Common in every hedge. Syn. 

 Convolvulus maximus, Vahl. Symb. ; C striatus, Vahl. Symb. ; 

 Ipomaea striata, Roth nov. sp. iii. 



15. CHRYSIJIDES, Bot. Reg. 270. Stems twisted, glabrous; 

 leaves oblong-cordate, subhastate, entire or oftener angled, some- 

 times 3-lobed, acuminate, glabrous, 1 to 2 inches long; petioles long, 

 muricated and warty at the base ; peduncles rigid, longer than the 

 petioles, 2 to 7-flowered, dichotomous, a solitary flower in the forks ; 

 sepals ovate retuse-mucronate ; corolla very small, yellow, bell- 

 shaped, five lines in diameter ; capsule depressed, wrinkled, glabrous, 

 4-angled. Muneree, in the Warree Country ; rare. The flowers 

 open at 9 A.M. 



16. COPTICA, Roth nov. sp. p 110. Herbaceous, procumbent ; 

 leaves palmate or pedate, lower lobes shorter, bifid, all serrated, 



