Ipomeea. } CONVOLVULACEZ. 731 
625. Operculina Manso. 
Large climbing herbs; stems and peduncles and _ petioles 
winged; leaves large, entire or lobed, rarely peltate. Flower 
Sepals 5, large, ovoid, glabrous, increasing and thickening in fruit, 
at length splitting irregularly from the tip. Petals 5, connate in a 
funnel-shaped, rarely campanulate corolla; tube with 5 vertical, 
smooth bands. Stamens 5; filaments filiform; anthers large, at 
length contorted ; pollen not igre Carpels connate in a 
glabrous, 2-celled ovary; ovules 4; eerie filiform ; stigma 2-glo- 
ose. F'rwit a valveless capsule, the epicarp circumscissile above 
the middle, the cap in dehiscing, carrying away the style; endocarp 
at length irregularly rupturing. Seeds 1, rarely more, black, 
smooth, usually large 
1341, OpgrcuniNa ‘Tones HuM Manso. eeeoeree Turpethum 
F.1. i. 476. Ipomea 7 stanaehan FB. 1. dy. 1219; B.D, 
I. 415 
In all the provinces. 
A stout climber, with winged stems. Beng. Tohri. 
dudh kalmi; Hind, Nuk-patar, pitohri; Santal. Bana 
etka, 
626. Ipomeea Linn. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs, twining or prostrate, less often suberect or 
erect; leaves alternate, entire, lobed or divided. Flowers axillary, 
Solitary, or cymose ; cymes rarely paniculate or in terminal spikes ; 
bracts various. Sepals 5, ovate or linear, equal or unequal. Petals 
5, connate in a campanulate or funnel-shaped corolla ; limb plicate, 
etd slightly lobed. Stamens 5, included or rarely exserted ; fila- 
- Ce) 
a 4-6-valved capsule, ak indehiscent. Seeds 4 or 8, 
rarely 1 glabrous, bearded or uniformly velvety or woolly. 
Sepals sagittate or cordate hn base ; corolla white or se _ 
fe Villous ; Margins w cina 
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