801 



(18) A. sericeA. (DaU.) 



Jdent. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 169. ' "- 



Spec. Char. Twining, tometitose ; leaves ample, broad, cor- 

 date-acuminate, hispid on the tipper surface, white and silky, with 

 adpressed pubescence bene;,th ; petiole 2 inches long,* peduncles ax- 

 illary, simple, boating a head of 6 to 8 flowers, enveloped in large 

 foliaceous linear-oblong bracts : calyx and outer sucfepe of corolla. 

 ■with long white huirs : flowers large, pink : ovary 4-celled : berry- 

 small, orange-coloured. ' 



South Concan. High hills west of Jooneer. Flowering in Sep- 

 tember. 



(19) A. r.i.i.iVTicK.' ( CUoisy.) 



Ident. Choisy. Conv. or. p. 36. — Dec. prod. IX. p. 330. 



Syn. Conv. ellipticus, Sjpreng. — C. laurifolius, Rgxh. — Ip. el- 

 liptica, BoiA.— Ip. laurifolia. Sweet. 



Spec. Chak. Clinabing : leaves ovate or obovate-elliptic, vil- 

 lous : peduncles very long, bearing ;it the apex a corymbose, panicle, 

 of flowers: sepals very obtOse, hairy outside, corolla an inch long» 

 rose-coloured: irnitaberry, size of a large pea, orange-coloured, 

 2-ceiled. 



Common on the Ghauts. 



GENUS III. ,. QUAMOCLIT. . . . ,, 



Pentiaiidria nionogynia. Sex:Syst:, 



•Deriv. Firom JTyoTrtos, a kidney-bean, and Klitos, dwarf; the 

 ppecies resemble the kidney-bean in their climbing stems. 



Gen. Chae. Sepals five, often mucronate': corolla tabular 

 cylindric : stamens exserted : style' one : stigma capitate, 2- 

 lobed : ovary 4-e-lled, cells 1-seeded.— Twining herbs. 



(1) Q. phjENiceum. {Choisy.) 



Ident. Choisy. Conv. or. p. 51. — Dec. prod. IX. p. 336. 



Stfn. Ipomaea phasnicea, Wall, in Roxh. flor, Ind. II. p. 92. 

 •—Convolvulus phseniceus, Spreng. ' 



Spec. Char. Leaves cordately subreniform, angularly toothed 

 at tjie margin and sometimes 3-lobed, lobes acute, dentato-sinuate 

 at the margin, glabrous on both sides: peduncles many-flowered, 

 }oosely spiked : s6pa|s equal, awned : flovyers large, bright scarlet. 



Coromaiidel. bengal. Common in most parts of the. country. 

 flowering in the cold season. 



