480 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY BOflTETY, 1892. 



A littoral species extending from Eastern Africa and the Masca- 

 reue Islands tbrougliout South-Eastern Asia, and thence to North 

 Australia and Polynesia. This species occurs in America as a 

 cultivated plant only. I'pomcea grandiflora Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 

 497, is not this species, but a form of I'pomcea Bona-nox, the true 

 "Moon-flower/* originally introduced from America. 



95. Ipomcea Batatas Lamk., Eacyc. Meth., vi., 14; Hook, f,, 

 Flor. Brit. Ind.^iv., 202 ; Watt, Diet., iv., 478. Convolvulus Batatas 

 Linn., Sp. PI. 154; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 483. The Siveet-potato. 



Ameni; cultivated, Rohinson; Htime. Anderut ; cultivated, Alcoch ; 

 " oi very inferior quality," Wood. Akati ; cultivated, " only one 

 small plot," Flemivg ! 



96. IpomoBa denticnlata Choisy in DC, Prodr., ix., 379 j 

 Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 208. 



Minikoi ; Fleming ! 



A littoral species extending from the Mascarene Islands to Ceylon, 

 the Andamans, Nicobars, Malaya and Burma (extending as far north 

 asAkyab on the coast of An^acan), thence to North Australia and 

 Polynesia, but, like Ochrosia horhonica and Tournefortia argentea, not 

 as yet reported from the coasts of the Indian mainland. 



97. Ipomoea biloba Forsk., Flor. Aeg. Arab. 44 ; Hook, f., 

 Flor. Bi'it. Ind., iv., ::12. I. Pes-Cajnce Roth., Nov. Sp. 109. Con- 

 voluulus Pes-GaprcB Linn., Sp. PL 159; Roxb., Flor. Ind,, i., 

 486. 



Bitrapar; plentiful, Bume! Fleming ! Kalpeni ; ^Zcoc/,;.^ Akati; on 

 shore and also solitary plants in interior, Fleming I Kadamum; only 

 on shore and not very common, Fleming ! Minikoi ; Fleming! ] 



A littoral species, cosmopolitan on tropical sea-shores. 



98. Ipomosa sinuata Ortega, Dec. 84; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 

 Ind. iv., 214. Convolmiliis dissectus Linn., Mantiss. 204. 



Minikoi ; Fleming I 



Native of America, now widely spread in the Old "World : here 

 growing quite wild. 



99. Convolvulus parviflorus Vahl, Symb., iii., 29; Roxb., 

 Flor. Ind. (ed. Carey & Wall.), ii., 51; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., 

 iv., 220. 



Minikoi ; common on the coast, Fleming ! 



