300 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Seeds glabrous. Eoxb. Flor. Incl. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 94 ; Choisy 

 Convolv. Or. 103, and in DC. Prod. IX. 434 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Mor. Brit. 

 Ind. IV. 217. Convolvulus Wallichianus, Spreng. Syst. cur. post. 61. 



Penang : Porter, j&de Wallich. — Distrib. Northern India, Afghani- 

 stan, Eastern Asia. 



Possibly only a casual weed in our area. 



8. Hewittia, W. & a. 



A pubescent twining herb. Leaves cordate, entire angled or lobed. 

 Floivers axillary solitary, or in few-flowered cymes ; bracts below the 

 calyx 2, linear-lanceolate. Sepals 5, acute ; outer 3 wide-ovate, accres- 

 cent in fruit, inner 2 narrow-lanceolate. Corolla medium, yellow or 

 white with a purple eye; tube campanulate ; limb plicate. Stamens 5, 

 included, adnate to corolla-tube ; filaments linear with dilated bases. 

 Ovary 1-celled or imperfectly 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style fihform ; stigma 

 of 2 ovate-oblong lobes. Fruit a globose, 4-valved, 1-celled, normally 

 4-seeded capsule. Seeds black, glabrous. — Disteib. A single species, 

 throughout the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere and Polynesia. 



Hewittia bicoloe, Wight Ic. t. 835. A pubescent perennial herb ; 

 stems twining. Leaves cordate, entire angled or lobed, pubescent,. 

 2 to 4 in. long ; petiole '5 in. long. Flowers on axillary 1-few-flowered 

 peduncles '5 to 4 in. long ; bracts 2, narrow-lanceolate, -25 to -5 in. 

 long, situated a short distance below the calyx. Sepals 5, the outer 

 ovate, accrescent ; the inner narrowly lanceolate, "3 to "5 in. long. 

 Corolla yellow or whitish with a purple patch in lower part of tube, 

 rather widely campanulate, 1 in. long ; tube externally hirsute ; lobes 

 5, very short. Stamens 5, included ; filaments linear with dilated bases. 

 Ovary hirsute, more or less perfectly 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; 

 stigmas 2, ovate-oblong. Fruit a globose capsule, "25 in. in diam.,, 

 1-celled, opening by 4 valves. Seeds 4, black, glabrous. Wight 111. 

 t. 168 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 216. Convolvulus hicolor, 

 Vahl. Symb. III. 25 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2205 ; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14 ; Flor. 

 Ind. I. 475 ; Eior. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 57 ; Wall. Cat. 1410. 

 G. hracteattis, Vahl Symb. III. 25. C. involucratus, Ker in Bot. Eeg. 

 t. 318 {not of Spreng.). Ipomcea hicolor, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 372. 

 I. bracteata, Bl. Bijdr. 711 (not of Willd. nor of Wight). I. Weinmanni 

 Eoem. & Schult. Syst. Nat. IV. 243. Calystegia Keriana, Sweet Hort. 

 Brit. ed. 2, 370. Palmia hicolor, Endl. ex Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 

 163. Shuteria hicolor, Choisy Convolv. Or. 104, and in DC. Prod. IX. 435 ; 

 Flor. des Serres t. 421. Aniseia Afzelii, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 295.. 

 A. hracteata, Hassk. PI. lav. Ear. 516. 



