Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 309 



•anthers twisted. Capsule globose, -3 in. wide ; peduncle somewhat 

 ■thickened. Seeds furred along the angles. Hallier f., in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. XVI. 476, 549; XVIII. 119; Verslag. Buitenzorg 1895, 128, 

 and Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. 410. Ipomoea tttberosa, Linn. Sp. PI, 160 ; 

 'Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 362 (partly). 



SiNGAPOEE : Hullett 645, in cultivation. — Disteib. America, Africa, 

 India, Malaya, New Caledonia. 



Lepistemon, B1. 



Stout climbing herbs, with villous stems. Leaves cordate, often 

 more or less lobed. Flotoers in very dense axillary cymes ; bracts 

 narrow, deciduous. Sepals 5, sub-equal, herbaceous, hispid or glabrous, 

 acute or obtuse. Corolla small, yellowish- white ; tube hirsute ex- 

 ternally, narrowed and shortly cylindric at base, urceolate above ; limb 

 ■shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included ; filaments dilated at their bases 

 into 5 sub-equal, concave scales arched over the ovary ; disk large 

 cupular. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style very short ; stigma 2-partite, 

 sub-capitate. Fruit a 4-valved capsule. Seeds glabrous. — Disteib. 

 :Species 3, S.E. Asiatic and African. 



Lepistemon flavescens, B1. Bijdr. 722. A climber with stout 

 fulvous-villous stems. Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, entire or often 

 -distinctly 3-lobed, densely tawny-tomentose on both surfaces; 3 to 5 in. 

 wide ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long. Floioers yellowish-white in closely 10- 

 30-flowered axillary cymes, sessile or on short peduncles "25 to "5 in. 

 long ; bracts tawny-hirsute, -2 in. long, deciduous. Sepals 5, rather 

 narrowly ovate to lanceolate, sub-acute to rather finely acuminate, 

 densely -patently sub-strigose, -35 to "4 in. long. Corolla narrow and 

 hyaline at the base, membranous and from slightly to widely urceolate 

 above ; tube hirsute externally ; limb widely infundibuliform. Stamens 

 5, the basal processes papillose or hirsute, included in the lower part of 

 the corolla-tube and overarching the short style ; filaments glabrous, 

 included in the upper part of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 4 ; style very short ; stigma 2-lobed, lobes sub-globose. Capsule ovoid, 

 glabrous, 2-celled, 4-valved, -25 in. long, normally 4-seeded. Seeds 

 glabrous. Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat. II. 629 ; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXIII. 2, 111 ; Wight Ic. t. 1362 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 348. L. 

 Wallichii, Choisy Convolv. Or. 61, and in DC. Prod. IX. 348 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 216. Convolvulus cephalanthus , Wall. 

 Cat. 1402. C. hinectariferus, Wall, in Eoxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 47. Vallaris controversa, Spreng. Syst. cur. post. 65. 

 Jpomcea Wallichii, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. Nemodon sp.. Griff. Notul. 

 IV. 286. 



