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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Malacca: Griffith! — Distrib. Tropical Africa, S.E. Asia generally. 
2. Ipomcea Leari, Paxt. Bot. Mag. YI. 267. A large hirsute climber, 
with perennial root. Leaves widely or deeply cordate, acute, entire or 
slightly 3-lobed, softly sparingly hirsute above, more densely beneath ; 
length 3 to 6 in., width 2 to 5 in.; petiole hirsute, 2 to 3 in. long. 
Flowers in congested 3-7-flowered cymes on axillary softly pubescent 
peduncles 3 to 7 in. long ; bracts linear acuminate -3 to -4 in. long, with 
casually a foliaceous bract 1-5 in. long, -3 to -5 in. wide, with a cuneate,. 
less often sub-cordate base, close to the flowers. Sepals lanceolate,, 
acuminate, -75 in. long, pubescent. Corolla abruptly campanulate 
from a narrow cylindric base, tube 2-75 to 3 in. long, purple-blue or 
mixed red and blue, changing with age. Fruit not seen. I. congesta, 
Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 104 (not of R. Br.). Pharbitis 
Learii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3928 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 343. 
Singapore : Hullett ! — Distrib. Cultivated throughout the tropics, 
native of America. 
Mr. Hullett, whose plant was probably an escape, notes on his specimen (Hullett 
646) : “ January, 1885 : blue convolvulus, wild ? Have never seen it in seed.” 
3. Ipomcea pulchella, Roth Nov. Sp. 115. A glabrous twining herb. 
Leaves glabrous, digitate, 5-lobed, lobes ovate-acute, base cuneate, 
central largest 1-25 to 1-5 in. long, -5 to -75 in. wide, basal smallest 
■5 to - 75 in. long, '3 to '5 in. wide; petiole glabrous, '75 to 2 in. long. 
Flowers in axillary 1-3-flowered cymes ; peduncles - 25 to 1'25 in. long; 
bracts minute, deciduous ; pedicels -5 in. long, with small ovate sub- 
persistent bracteoles below the middle. Sepals ovate, glabrous, '2 to 
■25 in. long, the inner obtuse, the outer sub-acute. Corolla campanu- 
late, 2 in. long, white or with a tinge of rose. Capsule globose,, 
glabrous, - 5 in. wide. Seeds villous. Wight Ic. 158 ; Choisy in DC. 
Prod. IX. 386. I. palmata Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 386 
in part (not I. palmata, Porsk = I. cairica, Sweet). 
Malacca : Maingay. Singapore : Tanglin, Bidlcy 5817 ! — Distrib. 
India, Indo- China. 
Mr. Bidley’s specimens may be from plants escaped from cultivation ; they are 
noted as “from behind the stable, Tanglin.” This is one of two species often 
cultivated in India under the name of the “Bailway Creeper”; the other species 
so termed is the American Merremia quinquefolia, Hallier f. ; the latter we have not 
yet received from the Malay peninsula, though it has already escaped and become 
domesticated near Port Blair in the Andamans. 
4. Ipomcea paniculata, B. Br. Prod. I. 486. A large scandent 
perennial climber with a tuberous root ; stems glabrous. Leaves 
palmately 5-7-lobed, glabrous, the lobes sometimes cut almost to 
