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Corolla sub-eampanulate, '75 in. long, white with a pinkish tinge or 
yellowish-white or yellow. Ovary 2-celled, each cell 2-ovuled. Capsule 
ovoid, ‘25 in. long, papery, 1-celled, with only a trace of the original 
dissepiment near the base. Seeds glabrous. Bull. Herb. Boiss. Y. 382. 
Convolvulus ccespitosus, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Flor. Ind. I. 483, and 
ed. Carey & Wall. II. 70; Wall. Cat. 1357. C. Benthamii, Wall. Cat. 
1393. Hewittia ccespitosa, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. II. i. 757. 
Skinneria ccespitosa, Choisy Convolv. Or. 105, t. 6, and in DC. Prod. IV. 
435. Ipomcea linifolia, Bl. Bijdr. 721 ; Choisy DC. Prod. IX. 369 ; 
Benth. PI. Austr. IV. 423 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 205. 
I. setulosa, Zoll. & Mor. Syst. Verzeichn. 51. 
Perak: Larut, King’s Collector 2486! Malacca: Griffith! 
Singapore : Kurz 2976 ! Hullett 127 ! 387 ! King ! King’s Collector 
1193 !— Distrib. E. Himalaya, Indo-China, Malay Archipelago, 
Australia. 
5. Merremia convolvulacea, Dennst. Schl. Hort. Malab. 39. A 
much-twining glabrous or casually hirsute often muricated herb. 
Leaves ovate -cordate, acute, glabrous, margin usually erenate or 
toothed, sometimes 3-lobed, 1 to 2 in. long, - 5 to 1 in. wide ; petiole 
■5 to 2 in. long. Flowers numerous, rather densely cymose, on axillary 
peduncles -5 to 3 in. long; bracts small, caducous. Sepals elliptic, 
glabrous, '2 in. long, ultimately sub-patent, margins often at length 
sub-involute. Corolla funnel-shaped, externally glabrous, yellow, ’5 to 
■6 in. long. Capsule ovoid, sub-angular, at the apex rather thicker 
than elsewhere and often depressed, - 25 in. long ; cells 2. Seeds 
puberulous. M. hedcracea, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVIII. 168, 
and Verslag. Buitenzorg 1895, 126. Evolvulus hedcraceus, Burm. 
FI. Ind. 77, t. 30, f. 2. Convolvulus flavus, Willd. Sp. PL 852. 
C. strictus, Vahl Symb. III. 28. C. dentatus, Vahl Symb. III. 25 ; 
Boxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 62; Wall. Cat. 1349. 
Ipomcea striata, Poir. in. Lamk Encyc. Meth. Suppl. IV. 632 ( not of 
Both). I. dentata, Willd. ex Boem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 789. I. sub- 
triflora, Zoll. & Mor. Verzeichn. 51. 
Perak : Durian, King’s Collector 397 ! Larut, Scortechini 1832 ! 
Pahang: Khol, Ridley 2168! Johore: Serom , Ridley ! Singapore: 
Forward ! — Distrib. S.E. Asia, Africa, Australia. 
6. Merremia nymph^ifolia, Hallier f. Verslag. Buitenzorg, 1895, 
127. A large woody climber. Leaves orbicular-ovate, shortly acuminate, 
entire, glabrous on both surfaces, peltate with a rounded or slightly 
retuse base, 6 to 10 in. long, 5 to 8 in. wide, the floral leaves more 
deeply cut and at times cordate with a narrow sinus. Floivers large, in 
loose 4-15-flowered cymes on a common peduncle sometimes shorter 
