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Perak : Larut, Scortechini ! — Disteib. Tropical Africa, S.E. Asia 

 generally, Polynesia. 



9. Aniseia, Choisy. 



Twining herbs. Leaves elliptic, mucronulate or lanceolate. Floioers 

 axillary, solitary or in few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, herbaceous, 

 acuminate ; outer 3 the larger, ovate, decurrent on the peduncle and 

 accrescent in fruit ; inner 2 smaller, lanceolate, unaltered in fruit. 

 Corolla wide-infundibiliform ; tube hirsute externally except on spaces 

 opposite the sepals, with 5 distinct vertical bands ; limb sub-entire. 

 Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, included ; filaments filiform. Ovary 

 glabrous, 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma 2-globose. Fruit 

 a 2-celled, 4-valved capsule. Seeds 4, large, black, smooth. — Distrib. 

 Species about 5, all confined to America but one, which is cosmopolitan 

 in the tropics. 



Aniseia martinicensis, Choisy Convolv. Ear. 144. A slender herb 

 creeping in wet places or climbing, glabrous or with a few adpressed 

 hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse with a mucro, base 

 cuneate ; glabrescent ; -75 to 3 in. long, "5 to 1 in. wide; petiole -Q in. long. 

 Floimrs axillary solitary; peduncles 1 in. long, with 2 minute, per- 

 sistent bracts about the middle. Sepals unequal, the outer ovate-acute 

 •6 in. long, the inner narrower, green, glabrescent ; in fruit accrescent 

 at length -75 to 1 in. long, the 2 outer then sub-cordate-ovate scarious, 

 strongly nerved, decurrent on the peduncle ; the inner lanceolate. 

 Corolla white, campanulate, tube 1 in. long, pubescent outside ; limb 

 1 in. across. Capsule ovoid, glabrous, "5 in. long. Seeds with minutely 

 strigose margins. Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 480 ; Hallier f. Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. XVIII. 96, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 882. A. uniflora, Choisy 

 Convolv. Or. 101, t. 2, f . 9, and in DC. Prod. IX. 431 ; Wight Ic. t. 850. 

 Convolvulus martinicensis, Jacq. Am. 20, t. 17. C. unifloriis, Lamk 

 Encyc. Meth. III. 544 ; Burm. El. Ind. 47, t. 21. C. emargi7iatus,YBhl 

 Symb. III. 23. C. Bheedei, Wall. Cat. 1358 ; Eoxb. Elor. Ind. ed. 

 Carey & Wall. II. 70. Ipomoea martinicensis, Mez Prim. El. Esseq. 98. 

 I. uniflora, Eoem. & Schult. Symb. IV. 247 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Elor. 

 Brit. Ind. IV. 201. I. lanceolata, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 282. 



Perak : Kwala Dipong, Scortechini 1780 ! Kota Bahru, King's 

 Collector 1075 ! Malacca : Griffith ! — Distrib. Tropics generally. 



10. Jacquemontia, Choisy. 



Climbing or twining herbs or undershrubs ; stems and leaves 

 usually pubescent. Leaves usually cordate or elliptic, entire or rarely 

 toothed or lobed. Floioers axillary, in compound umbellate or capitate 



