1. 



M. vitifolia. 



2. 

 3. 



M. hastata. 

 M. tridentata. 



4. 



BI. ccespitosa. 



5. 



6. 



M. convolvulacea. 

 31. nymphaeifoUa. 



7. 

 8. 



ill. umbellata. 

 M. crispatula. 



Flora of tlia Malayan Peninsula. . 303 



Corolla glabrous externally : — 

 Leaves not peltate : — 



Leaves deeply 5-lobed ; flowers large 

 Leaves entire or very slightly lobed ; flowers small : — 

 Sepals acuminate ; flowers yellow with a pink or purple 

 eye:— 



Leaves acute at apex 



Leaves obtuse, truncate, or 3-toothed at apex 

 Sepals obtuse : flowers without a distinct eye : — 

 Leaves narrow-oblong, the lower often ovate-oblong ; 

 flowers white with pinkish tinge or yellowish-white or 

 pale yellow 



Leaves ovate-cordate, margin often crenate or toothed ; 

 flowers clear yellow 

 Leaves peltate ; flowers large 

 Corolla somewhat hirsute or shaggy externally : — 



Leaves more or less hirsute ; flowers in compact corymbose 



or umbellate cymes 



Leaves quite glabrous ; flowers in lax cymes 



1. Meekemia vitifolia, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 552. 

 A large climber with slender hispidly hairy branches. Leaves cordate, 

 palmately 5-lobed, 2 to 6 in. across ; lobes triangular acute, often 

 toothed or again acutely lobed ; petiole "5 to 2 in. long, hispidly hairy. 

 Flowers in axillary 1-7-flowered cymes ; peduncles hispidly hairy, 1 to 

 •i in. long, pedicels hispidly hairy, -2 to '5 in. long. Sepals ovate- 

 acute, hispid, -5 in. long, in fruit somewhat enlarged, -75 in. long. 

 Corolla campanulate, clear yeUow, glabrous, 1"5 in. long and nearly 

 as wide, slightly m-egular. Capsule depressed-globose, membranous, 

 2-celled, normally 4-seeded. Seeds glabrous. Verslag. Buitenzorg,. 

 1895, 127, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 379. Convolvulus vitifolius, Burm 

 Fl. Ind. 15, t. IS, f. 1 ; Linn. Mantiss. 203 ; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14 

 Flor. Ind. I. 476, and ed. Carey & Wall, II. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 1348. C 

 angularis, Burm. El. Ind. 46, t. 19, f. 2 ; Linn. Mantiss. 203 ; Hassk 

 PI. Jav. Ear. 519. Ipomoea vitifolia, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. II. 372 

 Blume Bijdr. 709 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 72, and in DC. Prod. IX. 361 

 Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 219 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind 

 IV. 213. I. angularis, Choisy Convolv. Or. 72. 



Perak : Larut, Scortechini ! Andamans : Port Mouat, Kurz ! 

 Narcondam, Prain ! Nicobars : Nancowry, Prain's Collector ! — 

 DiSTRiB. S.E. Asia generally. 



2. Merremia hastata, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 552. A 

 diffuse twining biennial herb, stem angular. Leaves glabrous, hastate- 

 lanceolate, 2 to 3 in. long, -3 to "5 in. wide, apex acute ; petiole very- 

 short. Floivers 1 to 3 on wiry axillary peduncles as long as or longer 

 than the leaves ; bracts very small, lanceolate. Sepals narrow,. 



