318 . Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



This is very like typical I. staphylina, a species widespread in India, but differs 

 considerably in the shape and size of the corolla, that of true I. staphylina being wide- 

 campanulate from a very short, narrow-cylindric base, usually -5 to '75, very rarely 

 1 in. long, and -5 to -75 sometimes 1 in. wide at the limb. 



15. QuAMOCLiT, Moench. 



Annual twining glabrous herbs. Leaves cordate and angled orlobed, 

 occasionally divided. Flotoers axillary, in few-flowered cymes ; bracts 

 small. Sepals 5, sub-equal or the outer rather the smaller ; their apices 

 often sub-aristate. Corolla pink or red, hypocrateriform, slightly irre- 

 gular ; tube slender or slightly infundibuliform ; limb very slightly 

 5-lobed, spreading. Stamens 5, resupinate, much exserted; filaments 

 unequal. Ovary glabrous 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style rather longer 

 than the stamens ; stigma 2-globose. Fruit a 4-celled 1-valved 

 capsule, the septa thin, persistent. Seeds 4, black, dull, puberulous 

 or glabrous. — Disteib. Species 7, mainly American, 2 now widely 

 spread in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. 



Leaves ovate-cordate, entire or lobed . . . . . . 1. Q. phoenicea. 



Leaves ovate, deeply pinnately divided into numerous linear segments 2. Q. pinnata. 



1. QuAMOCLiT PHCENicEA, Chois. Couvolv. Or. 51, t. 1, f. 1. A weak 

 climbing or sub-scan dent herb. Leaves ovate-cordate acute, glabrous, 

 entire or lobed; 2 to 3 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. wide; petiole 2 to 4 in. long. 

 Flowers in axillary lax few-flowered cymes ; peduncles slender, 2 to 6 in. 

 long ; pedicels erect ; bracts minute. Sepals 5, elliptic, abruptly acumi- 

 nate, '25 in. long, unchanged in fruit. Corolla dark-red, or variously 

 in cultivated forms orange or yellow ; tube slender, 1 in. long ; limb 

 salver-shaped, somewhat oblique, '75 in. across. Stamens 5, exserted. 

 Capsule smooth, ovoid, -3 in. long, completely 4-celled with membranous 

 persistent septa. Seeds pubescent. Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 336; 

 Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 1042. Cojivolvulus phceniceus, Spreng. 

 Syst. I. 596 ; Wall. Cat. 1372. Ipomoea phoenicea, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 

 14, Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 92, and Flor. Ind. I. 502. 

 I. coccinea, Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 199. 



Singapore : Hullett ! — Disteib. Widely naturalised throughout 

 S.E. Asia, native of America. 



This, as Dr. Hallier notes on a sheet in Herb. Calcutta, is much larger and 

 more vigorous in all its parts than is I. coccinea, with which it is usually confounded 

 in Eastern collections ; it differs besides in having erect and not nodding pedicels. I. 

 coccinea is not, so far as is known, semi-spontaneous anywhere in S.E. Asia; the 

 present species is now very widespread there in a wild condition. 



2. QuAMOCLiT PINNATA, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 224. A slender glabrous 

 twining herb. Leaves ovate in outline, deeply pinnately divided into 



