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Flora of the. Malayan Peninsula. 
Terrestrial, firm-stemmed plants : — 
Flowers purple : — 
Leaves ovate-eordate, acute or acuminate, entire 
or more or less lobed : — 
Cultivated species with tuberous edible roots, 
often without flowers, rarely with seeds 
Wild plants or if grown in gardens with the 
roots not edible : — 
Large stout climbers on bushes near sea- 
coasts ; flowers large, 4 in. long ; sepals 
obtuse . . 
Slender climbers ; flowers never more than 
l - 5 in. long ; sepals acute or acuminate : — 
Climbing or trailing herbs on sea-beaches ; 
flowers 1‘5 in. long 
Climbing herbs in gardens, or garden 
escapes ; flowers -5 in. long 
Leaves oblong, obtuse or 2-lobed ; littoral sand- 
binding creepers 
Flowers white or yellowish-white ; leaves oblong or 
linear-oblong, emarginate, sometimes lobed, occa- 
sionally lyrate ; littoral sand-binding creepers 
Aquatic or palustrine herbs ; stems soft, thick and 
spongy, trailing and rooting on wet mud or floating 
in ponds and ditches ; flowers purple 
Cymes subumbellate, dense ; flowers pale purple, or 
white with a darker purple eye 
Flowers in many-flowered rather condensed axillary r 13. 
panicles ; flowers white, slightly tinged with pink . . \ 
5. I. Batatas. 
6. I. illustris. 
7. I. denticulata. 
8. I. triloba. 
9. J. Pes-Caprce. 
10. I. littoralis. 
11. Z. reptans. 
12 . 
I. sagittafolia. 
I. staphylina, 
vab. malayana. 
1. Ipomxea Pes-Tigridis, Linn. Sp. PI. 162. A hirsute twining herb; 
■stems patently hirsute. Leaves hirsute on both surfaces, deeply 
5-9-lobed, lobes elliptic, acuminate, narrowed at the base ; length 
1 to 5 in., width 1 to 4 in. ; petiole 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers densely 
capitate, on axillary hirsute peduncles - 5 to 3 in. long ; the heads 
surrounded by a whorl of fulvous-hirsute bracts, the outer ovate or 
elliptic-oblong with cuneate or rounded bases 1 in. long, the inner 
narrower acute - 5 to - 75 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, acute, tawny- 
hirsute, '3 to - 5 in. long, scarcely altered in fruit. Corolla 1'25 in. 
long, sparsely strigose externally, infundibuliform with rather narrow 
tube and abruptly widened mouth, pink. Capsule ovoid, -25 in. long, 
glabrous, chartaceous. Seeds minutely velvety. Eoxb. Flor. Ind. ed. 
Carey & Wall. II. 93; Bl. Bijdr. 709; Wight Ic. t. 836; Choisy 
Convolv. Or. 73, and in DC. Prod. IX. 363 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. 
Brit. Ind. IV. 204 ; Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 379. Convolvulus 
Pes-Tigridis, Spreng. Syst. I. 592 ; Wall. Cat. 1374. C. bryoniafolius 
Salisb. Prod. 125. Convolvuloides palmata, Moench. Meth. 452. 
Rheede Hort. Malab. XI. t. 59. 
