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than the petioles, sometimes longer than the leaves. Sepals broad, 
obtuse, coriaceous, nearly equal, in flower -75 in., in fruit nearly 1 in. 
long. Corolla wide-campanulate, 2 to 2-5 in. long, glabrous externally, 
yellow or white or purplish. Stamens 5 ; anthers hirsute. Capsule 
sub-globose, 1 in. in diam. Seeds pilose. Ipomcea nympheeifolia, Bl. 
Bijdr. 719; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 107. I. Rumphii, 
Miq. Elor. Ind. Bat. II. 605. I. peltata, Choisy, Convolv. Or. 70, and in 
DC. Prod. IX. 359; Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat. II. 605; Benth. Elor. Austral. 
IV. 408; Bak. Elor. Maurit. 208. Convolvulus peltatus, Linn. Sp. PI. 
1194. Spiranthera peltata, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 226. Operculina peltata, 
Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 549; XVIII. 119. Chironia 
lanosantliera, Nav. & Fernand. Vill. in. Blanco Elor. Eil. ed. III. Ic. II 
t. 261, f. 1. 
Perak: Pangkor, Scortechini 1074! Ridley 7158! — Distrib. Masca- 
renes, S.E. Asia, Australia, Polynesia. 
7. Merremia umbeleata, Hallier f. Eng. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 552 ; 
var. orientalis, Verslag. Buitenzorg, 1895, 132, and Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
V. 381. A climbing softly hairy or almost glabrous shrub, stems often 
15 to 20 feet long. Leaves cordate or hastate, elliptic or oblong, 
obtuse or shortly acute, entire or very rarely sinuate or angled, nerves 
rather distinct, softly hairy on both surfaces, or only beneath and 
glabrous except the nerves above, rarely quite glabrous above and only 
hairy on the nerves beneath ; length 1-5 to 4 in., width 1 to 3 in. ; 
petioles often softly hairy, '2 to '6 in. long. Flowers in compact corym- 
bose cymes on axillary usually softly hairy peduncles -5 to 1 in. long ; 
pedicels 2 to 1 in. long; bracts caducous. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, entire 
or mucronate, hairy or glabrous, -25 to -3 in. long. Cmolla tubular- 
campanulate, white, or white with a yellow tinge, 1 to 1-5 in. long, 
lobes short, at first hirsute externally. Capsule globose, glabrous, "3 in. 
wide. Seeds patently hirsute with blackish hairs. Convolvulus blandus, 
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13 ; Flor. Ind. I. 470, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 50, 70 ; 
Wall. Cat. 1342. C. cymosus, Lamk Encyel. Meth. III. 556. C. penta- 
gons, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Plor. Ind. I. 485, and ed. Carey & Wall. II. 
72 ; Wall. Cat. 1343. C. Rothii, Spreng. Syst. I. 600. Ipomcea cymosa , 
Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 241 ; Blume Cat. Gewachs. Buitenz. 50 ; 
Choisy Convolv. Or. 79, and in DC. Prod. IX. 371 ; Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 24 ; 
Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. VI. 211. I. bifida, Roth Nov. Sp! 
118. I. Heynei, Roem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 237. I. Rothii, Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. IV. 241. I. Olanda, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. II. 372. 
I. caliginosa, Choisy Convolv. Or. 79, and in DC. Prod. IX 370. 
Perak : Thaipeng, Scortechini ! Krian, Scortechini ! Larut, King’s 
Collector ! Penang : Wallich ! King ! Deschamps I Selangor : 
