368 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 1923 



IPOMOEA REPTANS (Linn.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 3 (1814) 460; 



Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 601; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 140; 



Vidal Phan. Cuming-. Philip. (1885) 129; Merr. in Philip. Journ. 



Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 244, Fl. Manila (1912) 392, Sp. Blancoanae 



(1918) 324. 

 Convolvulus reptans Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 158. 

 Ipomoea aquatica Forsk. Fl. Aeg.-Arab. (1775) 44, C. B. Clarke in 



Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. 4 (1883) 210; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 



(1885) 196. 

 Convolvulus repens Vahl Symb. 1 (1790) 17; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 



92, ed. 2 (1845) 68, ed. 3, 1 (1877) 128, t. U9, non Linn. 



Throughout the Philippines in stagnant streams, fresh-water swamps, 

 and pools; widely used as food, perhaps introduced. Throughout the 

 Tropics of the Old World; in southern China extensively cultivated. 



Local names: Balangog (Ilk.); galatgat (Ilk.); kangkong (Bik., Tag., 

 Pamp.) ; kangkung (Sul.); tangkong (Ilk., Kuy., Bis.); tankung (Sul.). 



IPOMOEA STOLONIFERA (Cyr.) Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 6 (1804) 20; 

 House in Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 18 (1908) 213; Merr. in Philip. 

 Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 429. 

 Convolvulus stolonifera Cyr. PI. Rar. 1 (1788) 14. 

 Convolvulus littoralis Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 924, non Ipomoea 



littoralis Blume. 

 Convolvulus acetosaef olius Vahl Eel. 1 (1796) 18. 

 Ipomoea acetosaef olia R. & S. Syst. 4 (1819) 246. 

 Ipomoea carnosa R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 485. 

 Babuyan Islands (Camiguin), Luzon (Cagayan), B. S. U091 Fenix, 7U3U 

 Ram-os, F. B. 17 H2 Curran. On sandy seashores. Tropical and subtrop- 

 ical seashores of both hemispheres. 



IPOMOEA TRILOBA Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 161; Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9 

 (1845) 383; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 435, Fl. 

 Manila (1912) 391, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 322. 

 Convolvulus dentatus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 89, ed. 2 (1845) 66, 



ed. 3, 1 (1877) 123, t. 31, non Vahl. 

 Ipomoea blancoi Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9 (1845) 389; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. 2 (1857) 619; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 142; Merr. in 

 Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1904) 26, 27 (1905) 63, Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 119. 

 Ipomoea mariannensis Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 



6 (1833) 468; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 142. 

 Ipomoea commutata Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. 31, 

 non R. & S. 

 Throughout the Philippines, common in waste places, borders of thick- 

 ets, etc., in and about towns at low and medium altitudes. A native of 

 tropical America, now a pantropic weed. 



Local names: Aurora (Sp., Tag.); bangbahgau (Ilk.); halobagbug 

 (Tag.); kamkamote (Ilk.); koskusipa (Ilk.); kupit-kupit (Ilk.); muti- 

 muti (C. Bis.); sagikat (Bag.). 



