320 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Spreng. Syst. I. 600. C. grandiflorus, Linn. f. Suppl. 136 ; Willd. Sp. 

 PI. I. 2. 859; Pers. Synops. I. 179; Wall. Cat. 1370. G. latiflorus, 

 Desr. in Lamk Encyc. Meth. III. 561. Ipomosa bona-nox, Linn. Sp, PI. 

 ed. II. 228 ; Eoem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 217 ; Bl. Bijdr. II. 712 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burm. II. 217 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 197. 



I. grandiflora, Lamk 111. I. 467, and Encyc. Meth. III. 16; Eoem. & 

 Schult. Syst. IV. 240 ; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 87, and Flor. Ind. I. 497. I. Boxburghii, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 



II. 1, 819. I. noctiflora, Griff. Not. IV. 286. 



Penang: cultivated, IZaZZier. Singapoee: S. Mayer 211. — Disteib. 

 Throughout the tropics ; possibly not truly wild in our area. 



17. Aegyeeia, Lour. 



Climbing rarely sub-erect shrubs. Leaves cordate to lanceolate, 

 pubescent or silky. Floioers axillary, usually in many-flowered cymes, 

 often sub-capitate ; bracts often conspicuous. Sepals 5, herbaceous in 

 flower ; in fruit leathery but little enlarged ; often red within. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, rose-purple, tube more or less hirsute externally ; limb 

 plicate, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included ; anthers oblong, straight. 

 Dish annular. Ovary 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma 

 2-globose. Fruit a hard dry berry. Seeds 4 or fewer, embedded in a 

 mealy pulp. — Disteib. Species about 30, in the tropics of the Old World 

 chiefly, and mostly in S.E. Asia and Polynesia. 



Aegyeeia obtusifolia, Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 135. A large 

 climber. Leaves elliptic or oblong, acute or obtuse, with or without a 

 sub-mucronate tip, base cuneate or occasionally rounded, upper surface 

 pilose, under surface silky strigose, nerves 9 to 11 pairs, often rather 

 distinct beneath, very oblique even in wide-leaved plants ; length 5 in., 

 breadth 1"5 to 3 in. ; petiole "6 to -8 in., very rarely 1 to 1-5 in. long. 

 Flowers axillary; peduncles usually short, -6 to 1 in., but occasionally 

 1-5 to 3 in. long; cymes sub-capitate, the pedicels "1 to -2 in. long; 

 bracts ovate, "15 to "2 in. long, caducous. Sepals 5, ovate-obtuse, -25 in. 

 long, densely silky-strigose externally, sub-patent in fruit, pale red 

 within. Corolla 1*5 in. long, tubular-campanulate, densely uniformly 

 hirsute, externally. Capsule -4 in. in diam., globose, pericarp char- 

 taceous, pink. Seeds finely grey-velvety, hemispheric, "2 in. in diam. 

 Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 333. Convolvulus obtectus, Wall. Cat. 1416. 

 Bivea ? obtecta, Choisy, Convolv. Or. 28, and in DC. Prod. IX. 326. 

 Argyreia Championi, Benth. Fl. Hongkong, 236. A. obtecta, Clarke 

 in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 186. Lettsomia Championi, Benth. & 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. II. 869. 



Peeak : Scortechini 1384 ! Kedah : Langkawi, Curtis 2852 ! — 



