Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 319 



numerous distant linear segments, glabrous ; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 

 wide ; petioles 1 to 3 in. long. Flozvers in axillary lax few-fiowered cymes ; 

 peduncles slender, 2 to 4 in. long; pedicels erect, if more than one 

 virgate ; bracts minute. Sepals 5, elliptic, -25 in. long, hardly changed 

 in fruit. Corolla dark red, occasionally in cultivated varieties white ; 

 tube slender, 1 in. long ; limb salver-shaped, somewhat oblique, -75 in. 

 across. Stamens 5, exserted. Capsule smooth, ovoid, -3 in. long, com- 

 pletely 4-celled with membranous persistent septa. Seeds puberulous. 

 Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVIII. 154. Q. vulgaris, Choisy Convolv, 

 Or. 52, and in DC. Prod. IX. 336. Convolvulus pinnatus, Desr. in Lamk 

 Encyc. Meth. III. 567. C. Quamoclit, Spreng. Syst. I. 591 ; Wall. Cat. 

 1375. Ipomoea Quamoclit, Linn. Sp. PI. 159 ; Bot. Mag. t. 244 ; Bl. 

 Bijdr. 708 ; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Elor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 93, 

 and Flor. Ind. I. 502 ; Clarke in Hook f. Elor. Brit. Ind. IV. 199. 



Penang : Batu Gaja jungles, Deschamps ! — Distbib. Widely 

 naturalised in S.E. Asia, native of America. 



16. Calonyction, Choisy. 



Large herbaceous climbers, stems usually muricate. Leaves large, 

 cordate, entire or angled. Floioers solitary or in few-flowered axillary 

 cymes ; bracts caducous. Sepals 5, herbaceous, smooth, usually 

 aristate, sub-equal or the outer smaller. Corolla large, salver-shaped, 

 white or rose-purple ; tube narrow-cylindric ; limb plicate. Stamens 5, 

 adnate to corolla-tube, considerably exserted. Ovary glabrous, 2- 

 locular ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma 2-globose. Fruit a 4-valved 

 capsule. Seeds 4, dull, glabrous. — Species 6 to 7, all tropical American, 



2 now widespread and sub-spontaneous in the tropics of the Eastern 

 Hemisphere. 



Calonyction bona-nox, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 227. A large climber, 

 stems smooth or muricate, glabrous. Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, 

 glabrous, entire or casually lobed; 3 to 8 in. long, 2 to 4 in. wide; petiole 



3 to 6 in. long. Floivers on axillary 1-5-flowered peduncles, 2 to 6 in. 

 long ; bracts caducous. Sepals 5, usually ovate, obtuse with a mucro, 

 very slightly enlarged in fruit, glabrous ; -5 in. long. Corolla 3 in. 

 long ; tube linear, -2 in. wide ; limb salver-shaped, 3 to 5 in. wide, white. 

 Stamens 5, slightly unequal, distinctly exserted. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 narrowed upwards, 1 in. long ; peduncle in fruit slightly thickened. 

 Seeds glabrous. HalUer f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 1028. C. noctilucum, 

 Don in Sw. Hort. Brit. ed. III. 482. C. speciosum, Choisy Mem. Soc. 

 Gen. VI. 441, t. 1, f. 4, and in DC. Prod. IX. 345 ; Hallier f. Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. XVI. 556 ; XVIII. 153. C. Boxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV- 

 263. Convolvulus acideatus, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I. 155. C. bona-nox 



