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Corolla glabrous externally : — 
Leaves not peltate : — 
Leaves deeply 5-lobed ; flowers large 
Leaves entire or very slightly lobed ; flowers small : — 
Sepals acuminate ; flowers yellow with a pink or purple 
eye:— 
Leaves acute at apex 
Leaves obtuse, truncate, or 3-toothed at apex 
Sepals obtuse : flowers without a distinct eye : — 
Leaves narrow-oblong, the lower often ovate-oblong ; 
flowers white with pinkish tinge or yellowish-white or 
pale yellow 
Leaves ovate-cordate, margin often crenate or toothed ; 
flowers clear yellow 
Leaves peltate ; flowers large 
Corolla somewhat hirsute or shaggy externally : — 
Leaves more or less hirsute ; flowers in compact corymbose 
or umbellate cymes . . . . 
Leaves quite glabrous ; flowers in lax cymes 
1. HI. vitifolia. 
2. HI. hastata. 
3. M. tridentata. 
4. HI. ctespitosa. 
5. M. convolvulacea. 
6. M. nymphaeifolia. 
7. M. umbellata. 
8. M. crispatula. 
1. Merremia vitifolia, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 552. 
A large climber with slender hispidly hairy branches. Leaves cordate, 
palmately 5-lobed, 2 to 6 in. across; lobes triangular acute, often 
toothed or again acutely lobed ; petiole -5 to 2 in. long, hispidly hairy. 
Flowers in axillary 1-7 -flowered cymes ; peduncles hispidly hairy, 1 to 
4 in. long, pedicels hispidly hairy, -2 to '5 in. long. Sepals ovate- 
acute, hispid, -5 in. long, in fruit somewhat enlarged, -75 in. long. 
Corolla campanulate, clear yellow, glabrous, 1'5 in. long and nearly 
as wide, slightly irregular. Capsule depressed-globose, membranous, 
2-celled, normally 4-seeded. Seeds glabrous. Verslag. Buitenzorg, 
1895, 127, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 379. Convolvulus vitifolius, Burm. 
FI. Ind. 45, t. 18, f. 1 ; Linn. Mantiss. 203 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14 ; 
Flor. Ind. I. 476, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 61; Wall. Cat. 1348. C. 
angularis, Burm. FI. Ind. 46, t. 19, f. 2 ; Linn. Mantiss. 203 ; Hassk. 
PI. Jav. Rar. 519. Ipomoea vitifolia, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. II. 372; 
Blume Bijdr. 709 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 72, and in DC. Prod. IX. 361 ; 
Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 219 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. 
IV. 213. I. angularis, Choisy Convolv. Or. 72. 
Perak : Larut, Scortechini ! Andamans : Port Mouat, Kurz ! 
Narcondam, Prain ! Nicobars : Nancowry, Prain’s Collector ! — 
Distrib. S.E. Asia generally. 
2. Merremia hastata, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 552. A 
diffuse twining biennial herb, stem angular. Leaves glabrous, hastate- 
lanceolate, 2 to 3 in. long, -3 to '5 in. wide, apex acute ; petiole very 
short. Flowers 1 to 3 on wiry axillary peduncles as long as or longer 
than the leaves; bracts very small, lanceolate. Sepals narrow. 
