316 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



III. 550. G. hilohatus, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Plor. Ind. I. 485, and ed, 

 Carey & Wall. II. 73 ; Wall. Cat. 1359. Batatas maritima, Boj. Hort. 

 Maurit. 225. Eumph. Herb. Amboin. V. t. 159, f. 1. Ebeede Hort. 

 Malab. XI. t. 57. 



Penang : on the coast, Deschamps ! — Distrib. Sea -shores of all 

 tropical countries. 



10. Ipomcea littoralis, Boiss. Fl. Orient. IV. 112. A glabrous or 

 slightly puberulous sand-binding creeper. Leaves oblong, emarginate 

 or lobed, often deeply so, and sometimes linear-oblong or linear or 

 sub-lyrate, nerves very obscure ; length 1-25 to 1*5 in., width "25 to 

 •75 in. ; petiole 1 in. long. Flotvers in axillary 1-3-flowered cymes ; 

 peduncles 1 in. long ; bracts -2 in. long, linear-lanceolate, sub-per- 

 sistent ; pedicels in fruit slightly clavate, "75 to 1 in. long. Sepals 

 ovate-obtuse or ovate-lanceolate, '6 in. long, obtuse with or without a 

 terminal mucro. Corolla white or yellowish-white, 1*75 to 2 in. long,, 

 campanulate. Capsule ovoid, glabrous, "4 in. long. Seeds villous. 

 Halher f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 555. I. carnosa, E. Br. Prod. 485 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 419; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 213, 

 I. acetoscefolia, Eoem. & Sch. Syst. IV. 246; Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Brasil. 

 VII. 255, t. 94. I. longifolia, Benth. PI. Hartweg. 16; Bot. Eeg. 

 1840, t. 21. Convolvulus littoralis, Linn. Sp. PI. 227. C. acetosafolius, 

 Vahl Eclog. I. 18. C. arenarius, Vahl Symb. I. 18. C. carnosus,. 

 Spreng. Syst. I. 609. C. stoloniferus, Cyril. PI. Ear. I. t, 5. Batatas 

 littoralis, Choisy Convolv. Or. 124, and in DC. Prod. IX. 337. B. 

 acetoscefolia, Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 338. 



Malacca : Griffith. Pahang : Eumpin, Bidley ! — Distbib. Sea- 

 shores of all tropical countries. 



11. Ipomcea reptans, Poir. Encyc. Meth. Suppl. III. 460. An annual 

 glabrous aquatic, stems prostrate on mud or floating on the surface 

 of ditches and pools, hollow and spongy, rooting at the nodes below. 

 Leaves elliptic-oblong, or cordate or hastate or oblong or lanceolate,, 

 entire or angular or sub-lobate ; 3 to 6 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. wide ; petiole 



1 to 6 in. long. Flowers in axillary 1-5-flowered cymes ; peduncles 



2 to 7 in. long ; bracts inconspicuous ; pedicels 1 to 2 in. long. Sepals 

 ovate, obtuse, glabrous or faintly puberulous, -4 in. long. Corolla 2 in, 

 long, purple, infundibuliform-campanulate. Capsule ovoid, glabrous, 

 •3 in. long, 2-4-seeded. Seeds glabrous or very minutely closely silky. 

 Bl. Bijdr. 714 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 62, and in DC. Prod. IX. 349 ; Hallier 

 f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 380. I. aquatica, Porsk. Flor. .^gypt.-Arab. 

 44 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 210. J. repens, Eoth Nov. 

 Sp. 110 ; Bl. Bijdr. 713. I. subdentata, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 614. 

 Convolvzdus reptans, Linn. Sp. PI. 158; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14. C. repens. 



