IPOMCEA PES-CAPRJS 175 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. A twiner with round, downy 

 stem. Leaves heart-shaped, 3-lobed, the middle one broad- 

 Tanceolate, the lateral ones rather rectangular with petioles of 

 equal length with the leaves. Flowers large, rose color or pale 

 blue, in axillary cymes of 2 or 3 flowers each. Calyx, 5 long, 

 downy parts. Corolla bell-shaped, 5 faint lobes. Stamens 5, 

 free, inserted in the corolla. Ovary free, 3 biovulate locules. 

 Style simple. Stigma trilobed. Seed vessels globose with 3 

 locules each containing 2 seeds. Seeds convex on dorsum, J 

 cm. broad by 1 cm. long, testa black. 



HABITAT. Manila. Blooms in August. 



Ipomoea pes-caprae, Roth. (Convolvulus pes-caprce 

 L. and Blanco.) 



NOM. VULG. Katagkatag, Lagayray, Lampayog, Bagasoa, 

 Kamigag, Daripay, Tagaray, Arodayday, Lambayog, Tag., 

 Vis.; Lambayog, Hoc. 



USES. The dry, powdered leaves are dusted over bruises 

 and ulcers. The entire plant is very mucilaginous and the 

 bruised fresh leaves are applied like poultices to cancers and 

 ulcerating tumors. In India the boiled leaves are applied lo- 

 cally in colic and in rheumatism ; the juice is given internally in 

 dropsy as a diuretic, the pounded leaves at the same time serv- 

 ing as a poultice to the oedematous parts. 



BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. A plant that creeps extensively, 

 the stem taking root. Leaves with 2 well-marked lobules. 

 Flowers rose-lilac color, in axillary panicles with long pedicels. 

 Corolla very large, bell-shaped, the limb 5-angled and 5-nerved. 

 Stamens 5, unequal in height. Stigma globose, marked by a 

 line ; later it divides in two. Seed vessel ovate, 2-celled, in 

 each cell 2 downy seeds convex on one side, angular on the 

 other. 



HABITAT. Very common on the seashore. Blooms in Jan- 

 uary. 



