312 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Malacca: Ch-iffith! — Disteib. Tropical Africa, S.E. Asia generally. 



2. Ipomcea Leaei, Paxt. Bot. Mag. VI. 267. A large hirsute climber, 

 with perennial root. Leaves widely or deeply cordate, acute, entire or 

 slightly 3-lobed, softly sparingly hirsute above, more densely beneath ; 

 length 3 to 6 In., width 2 to 5 in. ; petiole hirsute, 2 to 3 in. long. 

 Flowers in congested 3-7-flowered cymes on axillary softly pubescent 

 peduncles 3 to 7 in. long ; bracts hnear acuminate -3 to 4 in. long, with 

 casually a foliaceous bract 1-5 in. long, -3 to '5 in. wide, with a cuneate, 

 less often sub-cordate base, close to the flowers. Sepals lanceolate,, 

 acuminate, "75 in. long, pubescent. Corolla abruptly campanulate 

 from a narrow cyhndric base, tube 2-75 to 3 in. long, purple-blue or 

 mixed red and blue, changing with age. Fruit not seen. I. congesta^ 

 Prain Jom^n. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 104 {not of E. Br.). Pharbitis- 

 Learii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3928 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 343. 



SiNGAPOEE : Hullett ! — Disteib. Cultivated throughout the tropics,, 

 native of America. 



Mr. Hullett, -whose plant was probably an escape, notes on his specimen [Hullett 

 646) : " January, 1885 : blue convolvulus, wild ? Have never seen it in seed." 



3. Ipomcea pulchblla, Eoth Nov. Sp. 115. A glabrous twining herb. 

 Leaves glabrous, digitate, 5-lobed, lobes ovate-acute, base cuneate,. 

 central largest 1-25 to 1*5 in. long, -5 to '75 in. wide, basal smallest 

 •5 to "75 in. long, '3 to -5 in. wide; petiole glabrous, -75 to 2 in. long. 

 Flowers in axillary 1-3-flowered cymes ; peduncles "25 to l'2o in. long ;. 

 bracts minute, deciduous ; pedicels "5 in. long, with small ovate sub- 

 persistent bracteoles below the middle. Sepals ovate, glabrous, '2 to 

 •25 in. long, the inner obtuse, the outer sub-acute. Corolla campanu- 

 late, 2 in. long, white or with a tinge of rose. Capsule globose, 

 glabrous, 'O in. wide. Seeds villous. Wight Ic. 158 ; Choisy in DC- 

 Prod. IX. 386. I. palmata Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 386 

 in ptctrt {not I. palmata, Forsk = I. cairica, Sweet). 



Malacca : Maingay. Singapgee : Tanglin, Bidley 5817 ! — Disteib. 

 India, Indo- China. 



Mr. Eidley's specimens may be from plants escaped from cultivation ; they ar& 

 noted as " from behind the stable, Tanglin." This is one of two species often 

 cultivated in India under the name of the " Eailway Creeper"; the other species 

 so termed is the American 2Ierremia quinquefolia , Hallier f. ; the latter we have not 

 yet received from the Malay peninsula, though it has already escaped and become 

 domesticated near Port Blair in the Andamans. 



4. Ipom(ea paniculata, E. Br. Prod. I. 486. A large scandent 

 perennial climber with a tuberous root ; stems glabrous. Leaves- 

 palmately 5-7-lobed, glabrous, the lobes sometimes cut almost to 



