306 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



than the petioles, sometimes longer than the leaves. Sepals broad; 

 obtuse, coriaceous, nearly equal, in flower -75 in., in fruit nearly 1 in. 

 long. Corolla wide-campanulate, 2 to 2*5 in. long, glabrous externally, 

 yellow or white or purplish. Stamens 5 ; anthers hirsute. Capsule 

 sub-globose, 1 in. in diam. Seeds pilose. Ipomoea nymphaifolia, Bl. 

 Bijdr. 719 ; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 107. I. Bumphii, 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 605. I.peltata, Choisy, Convolv. Or. 70, and in 

 DC. Prod. IX. 359; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 605; Benth. Mor. Austral. 



IV. 408 ; Bak. Flor. Maurit. 208. Convolvulus peltatus, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 1194. Spiranthera peltata, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 226. OperctiUna peltata, 

 Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 649; XVIII. 119. Ghironia 

 lanosanthera, Nav. & Fernand. Vill. in. Blanco Flor. Fil. ed. III. Ic. II. 

 t. 261, f. 1. 



Pebak: Pangkor, *Sco7"^ec/iim 1074! Bidley 71581 — Disteib. Masca- 

 renes, S.E. Asia, Australia, Polynesia. 



7. Meeeemia umbellata, Hallier f. Eng. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 552 ; 

 VAE. orientalis, Verslag. Buitenzorg, 1895, 132, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. 



V. 381. A climbing softly hairy or almost glabrous shrub, stems often 

 15 to 20 feet long. Leaves cordate or hastate, elliptic or oblong, 

 obtuse or shortly acute, entire or very rarely sinuate or angled, nerves 

 rather distinct, softly hairy on both surfaces, or only beneath and 

 glabrous except the nerves above, rarely quite glabrous above and only 

 hairy on the nerves beneath ; length 1-5 to 4 in., width 1 to 3 in. ; 

 petioles often softly hairy, -2 to "6 in. long. Flowers in compact corym- 

 bose cymes on axillary usually softly hairy peduncles "5 to 1 in. long ; 

 pedicels -2 to 1 in. long; bracts caducous. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, entire 

 or mucronate, hairy or glabrous, "25 to "3 in. long. Corolla tubular- 

 campanulate, white, or white with a yellow tinge, 1 to 1*5 in. long, 

 lobes short, at first hirsute externally. Capsule globose, glabrous, "3 in, 

 wide. Seeds patently hirsute with blackish hairs. Convolvulus blandus, 

 Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 13^; Flor. Ind. I. 470, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 50, 70 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1342. C. cymosus, Lamk Encycl. Meth. III. 556. C. penta- 

 rjonus, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Flor. Ind. I. 485, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 

 72 ; Wall. Cat. 1343. C. Bothii, Spreng. Syst. I. 600. Ipomoea cymosa, 

 Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 241 ; Blume Cat. Gewachs. Buitenz. 50 ; 

 Choisy Convolv. Or. 79, and in DC. Prod. IX. 371 ; Bot. Peg. 1843, t. 24 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. VI. 211. J. bifida, Eoth Nov. Sp. 

 118. I. Heynei, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 237. I. Bothii, Roem. & 

 Schult. Syst. IV. 241. I. Olanda, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. II. 372. 

 I. caliginosa, Choisy Convolv. Or. 79, and in DC. Prod. IX. 370. 



Peeak : Thaipeng, Scortechini ! Krian, Scortechini ! Larut, King's 

 Collector I Penang : Wallich I King ! Deschamps ! Selangoe : 



