206 THE BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



/. digitata, L. 



Large climbing convolvulus with palmate digitate 

 5-7 lobed leaves, and large dark pink flowers, seeds 

 woolly. 



Flying Fish Cove. 



It is difficult to say how this plant is spread about, 

 I have never seen it except in places, which have been 

 more or less under cultivation but I never saw it culti- 

 vated anywhere. 



Distribution South America, Africa, India, Ceylon, 

 Malay Peninsula and Islands and Australia. 



I, campanulata, L. 



Abundant by Rocky point along the Cemetery road« 

 A large convolvulus, with ovate cordate leaves and 

 large pale-pink flowers across, with a darker centre. 



Not collected by Andrews. 



Distribution, India, Ceylon and Malay Islands, possi- 

 bly wild in the Malay Peninsula. 



I. peltata, Choisy. 



A very high climber with dark green peltate acumi- 

 nate strongly nerved leaves 12 inches long and 10 inches 

 across or smaller. The stem of this plant which is 

 milky attains a thickness of four inches. The panicles 

 of flowers are nearly 6 inches long on a peduncle of 

 equal length. The calyx half an inch long and wide, 

 sepals ovate subacute and corolla nearly 3 inches wide 

 with a short tube, of a brilliant yellow. 



This fine convolvulus is abundant in the centre of the 

 island on the Murray Hill Park covering trees with a 

 dense mat of stems and leaves collected also by 

 Andrews. 



Distribution, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, New 

 Guinea, Amboina, Australia, Polynesia, Mauritius. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



