Forana] LXXVII. CONVOLVULACE^ 487 



or 3 much enlarged, searious and prominently nerved in fruit. Ovary 2-celled, 

 capsule membranous, indehiscent or 2-valved, 1 -seeded. Seed glabrous, coty- 

 ledons plaited. Species 1"2. Tropical Africa, India. Malay Archipelago, China. 

 Australia. 



A. Fl. small. ]-.',- in. long. 



1. P. paniculata, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 235 ; Brandis F. Fl. 342. /;» / Kanu, 



Sal), I Bel, Hind. 



Branches, underside of 1., panicle and bracts softly grey- or brown-pubescent. 

 L. cordate, acuminate, blade 2-5, petiole .'.-1 in. long. Fl. white, numerous, 

 in large axillary and terminal drooping panicles. Three sepals greatly enlarged 

 in fruit. I -1 iu. long, pubescent, reticulate. 



Subhimalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 1,500 ft. Assam. 

 Khasi and ffaga hills. Behar. Central Provinces. Upper Burma. Fl. Oct.-Feb., 

 covering the crowns of mil trees with a mass of white blossoms. — Ma lav Archipelago 

 2. P. volubilis, Hum..; Wight 11!. t. His (bis), fig. 8; 1.-. t. ;:I7. Lower Burma (doubtful . 

 Mala; Penins. and Archip. Branchlets and 1. glabrous, fl. white, panicles large, 

 terminal, minutely pubescent, all sepa jed in fr., spathulate, J in- long. 



Tin' following :i herbac is climbers, with all sepals enlarged in fr., may be men- 

 tioned : 3. P. malabarica, Clarke. Higher G sol Sattara. Bababudan hills. Fruit- 

 ing sepals elliptic, ,-l in. long. 1. B. racemosa, Roxb.; Wighl let. 1376. Outer 

 Himalaya asc'emlinu to l.o'iii ft., from Kuiuaon eastwards. Khasi hills. Manipur. 

 Burma, I | Lower. Fr. sepals oblong-spathulate, ', in. long. 5, P. truncata, 

 Kurz. Khasi bills. Fr. sepals narrowed to both ends f, in. long. 



B. Fl. large. 



ii. P. gTandiflora, Wall. Nepal. Sikkim 4-7,000 ft. L. when young villous beneath, 

 cordate, bl •■ 3 5, pet. 2 I in. long. Racemes I— 12-fld., peduncles 3-6 in. long, corolla 

 mauve, tube aarro« cylindrical, limb funnel-shaped, aearly entire, I; in. across. 

 Sepals in red, the 3 larger If, the smaller 1 In. long. 7 p. spectabilis, 



Km/. Naga and Lushai hills. Upper Burma. Evergreen forests east of thi S 

 river, ^ndamans China. A larg i g shrub, tawny tomentose, 1. ovate from 



a cordate base, velvetj on both sides, petiole short. Fl. white in long axillary racemes, 

 corolla funnel-shaped, 1J in.long. Three sepa . ■■! in fr. tomentose, prominently 



veined, 2 '■'> in. long, tl thi 8. P. stenoloba, Kurz, Sikk "' ft. 



Eerbaceous, all pals enlarged in fr.. linear, three I in. long, the others smaller. 



6. IPOMCEA, Linn. : 1'!. Brit. End. iv. 196. 



Herbs, rarelj twining shrubs, 1. usually entire. Fl. in some species 



opening al night, purple, whit • yellow, in axillarj ernes, corymbs or 



panicles. Corolla campanulate or funnel-shaped, limb plaited, very shortly 

 lolicd. stamens unequal, filaments as a rule hair\ at base, anthers oblong 

 often twisted. Ovary usually 2-celled t-ovuled, disk annular, style nlifoi 

 stigma entire or 2-globose. Capsule 3 t-valved. Species 300, warmer regions 

 of both hem i spheres. Of the 64 species know u from British India, a Few only 

 of thi re c unmon kinds can tu ml ioned. 



I. I .. ent ire or nearly 



A. i lorolla large, salver-shaped, tube slender ' 'alonyction, i 'hois 



1. I. glaberrima, Bojer; Train inJourn. As, Soc. Beng. 63 102. Sj / liflora, 



Clarki ol Lam. fide Prain), PI. Brit. Ind. iv. 198. Seashores of India and Burma. 

 A large twining shrub, late,.blade 8-6 in. diam., pet. 2-5 in. long. 



FL-white, I Son !»■.! les l I in., sepals elliptic, Obtuse, J 1 in. long, corolla-tube 



Blender, straight, 2 a. across, anthers included, seeds villous with 



;gy margins. 2. I. bona-nox, Linn. '/'//.- Moon-flower. Probably Ameri 

 cultivated and run wild in India, similar to I. Fl. pure whiti t, opening 



after .lark and fading early next rning, sepals long-cuspidate, anthers exserteu, s Is 



rous. 



B. Corolla large, campanulate or funnel-shaped, I longer. 



a I 'edicela not t bickened below the fl. 



8. I. campanulata, I. inn.: Wight Ic. t. Ii'.7".. Western Peninsula. Burma, Upper 

 and Lower. Mala} Peninsula and Archip. Ceylon, A large twiner, resembling 



