738 BENGAL PLANTS. [Quamoclit. 
1366. ware at PINNATA Boj. Ipome@ea Quamoclit F. I. i. 503; 
F. B. I. iv. 199; E. D.1 
In at of the prone Soliaked and naturalised. : 
A slender, glabrous, annual twiner. Beng. Taru-lata, 
Kam-lata. 
628. Calonyction Choisy. 
Large, herbaceous climbers; stems usually muricate; leaves 
large, cordate, entire or angled. Flowers lane or in 2-flowered, 
illary cymes; bracts caducous. Sepals 5, herbaceous, smooth, 
usually ssttabsites subequal or the outer smaller. Petals 5, connate 
in a large, glabrous, white or rose-purple, salver-shaped corolla; 
ube narrow, cylindric; limb plicate. Stamens 5, exserted. Car- 
pels adaciale in a glabrous, 2-locular ovary; Beles 4; style fili- 
form; stigma 2-globose. Frwit a 4-valved capsule. Seeds four, 
dull, glabrous. 
Corolla white 
Corolla rose-purple muricatum. 
1367. CatonycTIon Bona-Nox Boj. Ipomea grandiflora F. 1. 
i. 497. I. Bona-now var. grandiflora F. B. I. iv. 197; 
E. D. I. 368. 
In most of the provinces, sometimes cultivated, but 
usually wild. 
A large, scandent twiner. Beng. Dudhia-kalmi, hal- 
kalmi 
1368. Catoxreorix muRIcATUM Don. Ipomea muricata F. I. 
499; F. B. I. iv. 197; E. D. 1. 398. 
Ble and acne western provinces, cultivated. 
A scandent twine 
629. Lepistemon Bl. 
Stout, scandent, villous herbs; leaves cordate, usually lobed. 
Flowers in very dense, axillary cymes; bracts narrow, deciduous. 
Sepals 5, herbaceous, hispid externally, acuminate, pybeanm 
Petals 5, connate in a cea urceolate ron aa vowet below to ~ 
a short tube, externally hairy. Stamens luded; filaments . 
dilated at base into 5 su Bei concave ae arched over the 
ovary ; disk large, cup-shaped. Carpels connate ina 2-celled ovary; 
ovules 4; style very short; — capitate, 2-partite. Fruit a 
4-valved capsule. Seeds — 
