220 CONVOLVULACER. [ Ipomea. 
and enlarging under the fruit, the outer ones oblong, blunt, about 
2 in. long, the inner ones usually by 4 longer and narrower, gla - 
rous ; corolla funnel-bell-shaped, about 14 in. deep, glabrous; fila- 
ments inserted above the constriction of the tube ; capsule globose, 
the size of a small cherry, glabrous, hyaline-chartaceous, quite 
enclosed in the enlarged sepals, 2-celled ; seeds triangular-oval, black, 
glabrous, opaque. 
Has.— Common in all forests, especially the tropical ones, and in shrubbery 
along river sides, etc., all over Burma.—Fl. C.S.; Fr. H.S.—s :1—SS.=0o. 
PORANA, L. 
* Style 2-cleft ; all the 5 sepals enlarged in fruit and stel« 
ately spreading ; corolla small. 
Panicles without floral leaves; sepals about 2 lin. long, oval, 
2 
blunt ; cap cronate : y pirate - . P. volubilis. 
%* > Style simple, only 3 of the sepals Sairly enlarged, 
erect or erect-spreading ; ers white, 
Corolla about 2 lin. across; fruiting sepals 1-nerved . P. paniculata. 
Corolla-limb about an inch in diameter ; fruiting sepals S-nerved at 
ase : fe ‘ ‘ é é : 
terminal, slightly pubescent panicles collected into larger ones at 
the end of the branches ; sepals about 24 lin. long, oboval, glabrous, 
or sometimes ciliate on the blunt apex ; corolla bell-shaped, the 
limb 5-cleft, about 3 lin. in diameter; ovary 2-celled, the style 
unequally 2-cleft ; filaments long, the anthers protruding from the _ 
mouth of the corolla; fruiting sepals ovate-lanceolate, probably 
many-nerved, about 4 in. long, chartaceous ; capsules globular, — 
2. P. paniculata, Roxb.—A large twining or spreading shrub, 
