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RlVEA 



The species belonging to this genus (Choisy, Mem. Soc. 

 Phys. Genev. 6: 407. 1833) are high twining or climbing, peren- 

 nial, woody vines with large, entire, petioled leaves. Ovary 4- 

 celled, 4-ovuled; stigma 2-lobed, lobes oblong. Pericarp becom- 

 ing dry and hard, shining, indehiscent, the internal dissepiments 

 more or less united from the top downward. 



Stictocardia Hallier f. Bot. Jahrb. 18: 159. 1893. 



Argyreia § Po7nofera C. B. Clarke, in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 4: 184. 1885. 



The type species is Rivea tiliaefolia (Desr.) Choisy, 1. c, 

 which Hallier makes the type of Stictocardia. 



Rivea campanulata (L.) 



Ipomoea campanulata L. Sp. PI. 160. 1753; Thwait, Knum. 



PI. Ceyl. 211. 1864. 

 Convolvulus tiliaefolius Desr. in Lam. Eneyc. 3: 544. 1789. 

 Convolvulus gangeticus Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13. 18 14; Fl. 



Ind. 2: 46. 1824. 

 Ipomoea tiliaefolia R. & S. Syst. 4: 229. 181 9. 

 Ipomoea benghaliensis R. & S. 1. c. 

 Convolvulus campanula/us Spreng. Syst. 1: 608. 1825. 

 Ipomoea gangetica Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 288. 1830. 

 Convolvulus melanostictus Schlecht. in Linnaea6: 737. 1831 

 Rivea tiliaefolia Choisy, in Mem. Soe. Phys. Genev. 6: 



407- 1833. 

 Ipo?noea melanosticta G. Don, Gen. Syst. 4: 271. 1838. 

 Convolvulus platypcltis Spanoghe, in Linnaea 15:338. 1841 

 Argyreia tiliaefolia Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. 4: 12. 1850. 

 Stictocardia tiliaefolia Hallier f. Bot. Jahrb. 18: 159. 1893. 

 Type localitv: India. 



Distribution: West Indies, tropical America, Africa and 

 Asia. 



Illustrations: Wight, Ic. PI. ind. 4-.pl. 7358; Rheed. 

 Mai. 11: pi. 5 6. 



Biltmore, North < Carolina. 



