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This is very like typical I. staphylina, a species widespread in India, but differs 
considerably in the shape and size of the corolla, that of true Z. staphylina being wide- 
campanulate from a very short, narrow-cylindric base, usually -5 to '75, very rarely 
1 in. long, and -5 to "75 sometimes 1 in. wide at the limb. 
15. Quamoclit, Moench. 
Annual twining glabrous herbs. Leaves cordate and angled or lobed, 
occasionally divided. Flowers axillary, in few-flowered cymes ; bracts 
small. Sepals 5, sub-equal or the outer rather the smaller ; their apices 
often sub-aristate. Corolla pink or red, hypocrateriform, slightly irre- 
gular ; tube slender or slightly infundibuliform ; limb very slightly 
5-lobed, spreading. Stamens 5, resupinate, much exserted; filaments 
unequal. Ovary glabrous 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style rather longer 
than the stamens ; stigma 2-globose. Fruit a 4-celled 1-valved 
capsule, the septa thin, persistent. Seeds 4, black, dull, puberulous 
or glabrous. — Distrib. Species 7, mainly American, 2 now widely 
spread in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. 
Leaves ovate-cordate, entire or lobed . . . . . . 1. Q. phcenicea. 
Leaves ovate, deeply pinnately divided into numerous linear segments 2. Q. pinnata. 
1. Quamoclit phcenicea, Chois. Convolv. Or. 51, t. 1, f. 1. A weak 
climbing or sub-scandent herb. Leaves ovate-cordate acute, glabrous, 
entire or lobed; 2 to 3 in. long, 2 to 2 - 5 in. wide; petiole 2 to 4 in. long. 
Flowers in axillary lax few-flowered cymes ; peduncles slender, 2 to 6 in. 
long ; pedicels erect ; bracts minute. Sepals 5, elliptic, abruptly acumi- 
nate, - 25 in. long, unchanged in fruit. Corolla dark-red, or variously 
in cultivated forms orange or yellow ; tube slender, 1 in. long ; limb 
salver-shaped, somewhat oblique, '75 in. across. Stamens 5, exserted. 
Capsule smooth, ovoid, "3 in. long, completely 4-celled with membranous 
persistent septa. Seeds pubescent. Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 336; 
Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. Y. 1042. Convolvulus phceniceus, Spreng. 
Syst. I. 596 ; Wall. Cat. 1372. Ipomcea phcenicea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 
14, Plor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 92, and Plor. Ind. I. 502. 
I. coccinea, Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 199. 
Singapore : Hullett ! — Distrib. Widely naturalised throughout 
S.E. Asia, native of America. 
This, as Dr. Hallier notes on a sheet in Herb. Calcutta, is much larger and 
moie vigorous in all its parts than is Z. coccinea, with which it is usually confounded 
in Eastern collections ; it differs besides in having erect and not nodding pedicels. Z. 
coccinea is not, so far as is known, semi-spontaneous anywhere in S.E. Asia ; the 
present species is now very widespread there in a wild condition. 
2. Quamoclit pinnata, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 224. A slender glabrous 
twining herb. Leaves ovate in outline, deeply pinnately divided into 
