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3. CUNEATA, Bot. Reg. 66 1 . An erect-growing shrub, glabrous ; 

 leaves obovate-cuneate, emarginate, glabrous above, hairy be- 

 neath, scarcely petioled ; peduncles shorter than the leaf, 3 to 6- 

 flowered ; bracts minute, linear ; sepals ovate-obtuse ; corolla tubular, 

 an inch long:, deep purple. Common in the Mawul districts and 

 Deccan; fruit 4-celled, according to Wight. Syn. Convolvulus 

 cuneatus, Willd. sp. i, 873; Lettsomia cuneata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 

 p 491 ; Ipomuea atrosanguinea, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2170. 



4. ELLIPTICA, Chois. DC. Prod. 9, 330. Climbing ; leaves 

 ovate or obovate-elliptic ; villous, peduncles very long, bearing at the 

 apex a corymbose panicle of flowers ; sepals very obtuse, hairy 

 outside, corolla an inch long, rose-coloured ; fruit a berry, size of 

 a large pea, orange-coloured, 2-celled. On the Ghauts, common. 

 Native name " Bond wail." Syn. Convolvulus laurifolius, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 470. 



1. MALABARICA, Chois. DC. Prod. 9 331. Stem pubescent ; 

 leaves cordate, rounded-acute, glabrous, or slightly hairy ; peduncles 

 as long as, or longer than, the petiole, many-flowered at the apex ; 

 sepals lanceolate-acute, hoary, the margins revolute; corolla white 

 or cream-coloured, the bottom deep-purple. The Ghauts, common. 

 Syn. Convolvulus malabaricus, Linn. sp. 221 ; Ipomaea malabarica, 

 Room, and Schult ; Rheed. Mai. xi, .51. 



2. AGGREGATA, Chois, DC. Prod. 4, 333. Hoary, tomentose ; 

 leaves ovate-cordate, smooth above, hoary beneath, very obtuse ; 

 peduncles longer than the petioles ; flowers numerous, capitate ; 

 bracts ovate-orbiculate, hoary, obtuse ; sepals ovate-obtuse; corolla 

 small, 8 lines long, Southern Maratha Country, Law. Syn. Lettso- 

 mia aggregata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 488 ; Iponraea imbricata, Roth nov. 

 sp. p. 112; Convolvulus imbricatus, Spr. 



3. A SERICEA, Dalz. Twining, tomentose; leaves ample, 

 broad, cordate-acuminate, hispid on the upper surface, white and 

 silky, with adpressed pubescence beneath ; petiole 2 inches long ; 

 peduncles axillary, simple, bearing a head of 6 to 8 flowers, enve- 

 loped in large, foliaceous, linear-oblong bracts; calyx and outer 

 surface of corolla with long, white hairs ; flowers large, pink ; ovary 

 4-celled ; berry small, orange-coloured. Southern Concan, com- 

 mon ; also on the high hills west of Joonere ; flowers in September. 

 This comes near to A argentea, which has the flowers in a kind of 

 loose umbel, while in this they are in a dense head. No. 985 of 

 Graham's Catalogue. 



14. ERYCIBE, Roxb. 



1. PANICULATA, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 585. A large, climbing 

 shrub, covered with tawny tomentum ; leaves elliptic-acute at the 

 base, abruptly acuminated at the apex, smooth j panicles terminal 



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