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anthers twisted. Capsule globose, -3 in. wide; peduncle somewhat 
thickened. Seeds furred along the angles. Hallier f., in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. XVI. 476, 549; XVIII. 119; Verslag. Buitenzorg 1895, 128, 
and Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. 410. Ipomcea tuberosa, Linn. Sp. PL 160 ; 
Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 362 {partly ). 
Singapore: Hullett 645, in cultivation. — Distrib. America, Africa, 
India, Malaya, New Caledonia. 
Lepistemon, Bl. 
Stout climbing herbs, with villous stems. Leaves cordate, often 
more or less lobed. Flowers in very dense axillary cymes; bracts 
narrow, deciduous. Sepals 5, sub-equal, herbaceous, hispid or glabrous, 
acute or obtuse. Corolla small, yellowish-white ; tube hirsute ex- 
ternally, narrowed and shortly cylindric at base, urceolate above ; limb 
shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included ; filaments dilated at their bases 
into 5 sub-equal, concave scales arched over the ovary; disk large 
.cupular. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style very short ; stigma 2-partite, 
sub-capitate. Fruit a 4-valved capsule. Seeds glabrous. — Distrib. 
Bpecies 3, S.E. Asiatic and African. 
Lepistemon flavescens, Bl. Bijdr. 722. A climber with stout 
fulvous-villous stems. Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, entire or often 
•distinctly 3-lobed, densely tawny-tomentose on both surfaces; 3 to 5 in. 
wide ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers yellowish-white in closely 10- 
30-flowered axillary cymes, sessile or on short peduncles -25 to -5 in. 
long; bracts tawny-hirsute, -2 in. long, deciduous. Sepals 5, rather 
narrowly ovate to lanceolate, sub-acute to rather finely acuminate, 
densely patently sub-strigose, -35 to -4 in. long. Corolla narrow and 
hyaline at the base, membranous and from slightly to widely urceolate 
above ; tube hirsute externally ; limb widely infundibuliform. Stamens 
5, the basal processes papillose or hirsute, included in the lower part of 
ithe corolla-tube and overarching the short style ; filaments glabrous, 
included in the upper part of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 
4; style very short ; stigma 2-lobed, lobes sub-globose. Capsule ovoid, 
glabrous, 2-celled, 4-valved, -25 in. long, normally 4-seeded. Seeds 
.glabrous. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 629 ; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
LXIII. 2, 111 ; Wight Ic. t. 1362 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 348. L. 
Wallichii, Choisy Convolv. Or. 61, and in DC. Prod. IX. 348 ; Clarke in 
Hook. f. Elor. Brit. Ind. IV. 216. Convolvulus cephalanthus , Wall. 
Cat. 1402. C. binectariferus, Wall, in Roxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. II. 47. Vallaris controversa , Spreng. Syst. cur. post. 65. 
Ipomcea Wallichii, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. Nemodon sp., Griff. Notul. 
IV. 286. 
