N. 0. C0NV0LVULA0E&. 873 



Vera. : — Dudiya-kulmi, Kalmilata ; llalkalmi (Beng.) ; Gut- 

 cbandni'(Bomb.) ; Naga-mugbatei (Tarn.); Mundavalli (Mai.)'; 

 Nagara-mukuttykai (Tel.) ; Somavel, banya bauri, cbandra 

 Kant (H.). 



Eng. : — Moon flower. 



Habitat :— Cultivated tbrougbout India, native of tropical 

 America. 



An extensive climber. Stems smooth or not, rarely muricate. 

 Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, glabrous, entire or angular or lobed, 

 3-8in. Petiole 3-6in. Peduncles 2-6in. long, 1-5-flowered ; 

 bracts caducous. Flowering sepals ovate, obtuse mucronate, or 

 shortly acute, rarely obtuse ; in fruit unaltered, or enlarged. 

 Corolla pure white, tube 3 by £in., linear, many times longer 

 than the sepals ; limb 3-5in. diam., with white or greenish plaits, 

 never with at all purple. Stamens about as long as the Corolla- 

 tube. Anthers shortly exserted or sub-included. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Capsule one inch, ovoid-oblong, narrowed upwards ; peduncle 

 at length somewhat thickened. Seeds fin. long, polished, 

 yellow, glabrous. 



The flower expands at night, closes to wither about one 

 hour after sunrise. 



Uses : — The capsules and seeds, as well as the flowers, leaves 

 and roots are included amongst the medicines supposed to have 

 some merit as remedies against snake-bite (Ainslie). 



In Brazil, the seeds of Ijjomoea bonanox are largely employed against 

 snake-bits. The seeds have the following composition : Water, 9"00 p. c. ; 

 crystalline resin, 0*50 p. c. ; amorphous bitter substance, 0*015 p. c. ; carbohy- 

 drates, 17*28 p. c. ; tannoids, 0*81 p. c. ; fatty oil, 9*35 p. c. ; resin acids, 1*25 

 p. c. ; proteins, 2*70 p. c, ; organic acids, 0*095 p. c. ; ash, 5'00 p. c. 



In the leaves of the plant is found a small quantity of a crystalline 

 glucoside. [Peckolt Chemist and Druggist, 1910, quoted in J. Ch. Ind., Jan. 16, 

 1911, p. 46]. 



834. 7. muricata, Jacg. h.f.b.l, iv. 197 ; Roxb. 

 167. 



Vern. : — Barikbhauri (Konkao) ; Gariya (Bomb.). 



Habitat: — Himalaya, frequent. from Kangra to. Sikkim, Dec- 

 can hills"; cultivated elsewhere. 



A scandent glabrous herb. Stems rough, with smalt tubercu- 

 lous out-growths. Leaves cordate-ovate, abruptly tapering into 



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