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glabrous ; petioles compressed ; peduncles longer than the petiole, 

 I to 2-flowered ; sepals wrinkled, muricated, ovate-oblong, glabrous, 

 mucronulate, two lines long ; corolla white ; tubular, shortly 5-lobed ; 

 capsule glabrous. The open glades about Khandalla, creeping 

 amongst the grass. Grab. Cat. p 132; Convolvulus copticus, Linn. 

 Maut. 559; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 477. 



17. Rhyncorhiza, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 179. — Root 

 an ovoid compressed beaked tuber ; stem filiform, climbing, 

 glabrous ; leaves long-petioled, palmately divided into 7 lobes ; 

 lobes unequally pinnatifid, acuminate ; peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 filiform, 1 to 2-flowered, longer than the leaf; flowers middle-sized, 

 yellow. Near Tulkut Ghaut ; flowers in August and September. 



10. BATATAS. 



1. Paniculata, Chois. DC. Prod. 9, p 339. — Root tuberous; 

 stems thick, twining, glabrous ; leaves large, palmately 5 to 7- 

 lobed ; lobes ovate-lanceolate ; peduncles much longer than the 

 petioles, many-flowered, dichotomous; sepals ovate, rounded-con- 

 cave, very obtuse ; corolla purple, handsome, narrowed at the base ; 

 seeds with long hairs. A very common but handsome plant; 

 flowers in the rains. Syn. Convolvulus paniculatus, Linn. sp. 223 ; 

 C insignis, Spr. syst. i, 692 ; C roseus, Kunth. ; I pomsea paniculata, 

 Br. Prod. 486 ; Bot. Reg. t.62; Ip gossypiifoha, Willd. ; Ip insignis, 

 Bot. Mag. 1790. 



2. Pentaphylla, Chois. DC. Prod. 9, 339. — Stems twining, 

 hirsute ; leaves digitate ; leaflets 5, elliptic-lanceolate, entire ; 

 peduncles as long as the petioles, hirsute, 1 to 3-flowered ; sepals 

 very hairy, lanceolate-acute ; corolla a little longer than the calyx, 

 white ; capsule and seeds smooth. A common weed. Syn. Con- 

 volvulus pentaphyllus, Linn. sp. 223 ; C hirsutus, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 

 479 ; C munitus, Wight Illust. t. 7 ; C nemorosus, Roem. and 

 Schult. iv, 303. 



11. PHARBITIS. 



L Laciniata, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 1 78. — Root fibrous ; 

 Stem filiform, creeping or twining, angular-twisted ; leaves shortly- 

 petioled, divided into 7 lobes ; lobes very narrow-linear, between 

 serrated and pinnatifid, the teeth unequal mucronate ; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, angular-clavate, 1 to 3-flowered, shorter than the 

 leaf ; corolla white, with a long, slender tube, purple within ; calyx 

 leaflets oblong-mucronate, thick, fleshy, 3-ribbed, wrinkled ; capsule 

 3-celled; cells 2-seeded ; seeds silky. In the district of Malwan; 

 flowers in August ; unfolds its flowers only at sunset. 



