301 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Pebak : Larut, Scortechini !— Distbib. Tropical Africa, S.E. Asia 
generally, Polynesia. 
9. Aniseia, Choisy. 
Twining herbs. Leaves elliptic, mucronulate or lanceolate. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or in few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, herbaceous, 
acuminate ; outer 3 the larger, ovate, decurrent on the peduncle and 
accrescent in fruit ; inner 2 smaller, lanceolate, unaltered in fruit. 
Corolla wide-infundibiliform ; tube hirsute externally except on spaces 
opposite the sepals, with 5 distinct vertical bands ; limb sub-entire. 
Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, included ; filaments filiform. Ovary 
glabrous, 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma 2-globose. Ft wit 
a 2-celled, 4-valved capsule. Seeds 4, large, black, smooth. — Distbib. 
Species about 5, all confined to America but one, which is cosmopolitan 
in the tropics. 
Aniseia mabtinicensis, Choisy Convolv. Ear. 144. A slender herb 
creeping in wet places or climbing, glabrous or with a few adpressed 
hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse with a mucro, base 
cuneate ; glabrescent ; ‘75 to 3 in. long, '5 to 1 in. wide; petiole '6 in. long. 
Flowers axillary solitary ; peduncles 1 in. long, with 2 minute, per- 
sistent bracts about the middle. Sepals unequal, the outer ovate-acute 
•6 in. long, the inner narrower, green, glabrescent ; in fruit accrescent 
at length -75 to 1 in. long, the 2 outer then sub-cordate-ovate scarious, 
strongly nerved, decurrent on the peduncle ; the inner lanceolate. 
Corolla white, campanulate, tube 1 in. long, pubescent outside , limb 
1 in. across. Capsule ovoid, glabrous, - 5 in. long. Seeds with minutely 
strigose margins. Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 430 ; Hallier f. Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. XVIII. 96, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 382. A. uniflora, Choisy 
Convolv. Or. 101, t. 2, f. 9, and in DC. Prod. IX. 431 ; Wight Ic. t. 850. 
Convolvulus martinicensis, Jacq. Am. 20, t. 17. C. uniflorus, Lamk 
Encyc. Meth. III. 544 ; Burm. El. Ind. 47, t. 21. C. emarginatus, Vabl 
Symb. III. 23. C. Rheedei, Wall. Cat. 1358 ; Eoxb. Elor. Ind. ed. 
Carey & Wall. II. 70. Ipomcea martinicensis, Mez Prim. El. Esseq. 98. 
I. imiflora, Eoem. & Schult. Symb. IV. 247 ; Clarke in Hook. f. I lor. 
Brit. Ind. IV. 201. I. lanceolata, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 282. 
Perak : Kwala Dipong, Scortechini 1780 ! Kota Bahru, King s 
Collector 1075 ! Malacca : Griffith /—Distbib. Tropics generally. 
10. Jacquemontia, Choisy. 
Climbing or twining herbs or undersbrubs ; stems and leaves 
usually pubescent. Leaves usually cordate or elliptic, entire or rarely 
toothed or lobed. Flowers axillary, in compound umbellate or capitate 
