320 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsxda. 
Spreng. Syst. I. 600. G. grandiflorus, Linn. f. Suppl. 136; Willd. Sp. 
PI. I. 2. 859; Pers. Synops. I. 179; Wall. Cat. 1370. G. latiflorus, 
Desr. in Lamk Encyc. Meth. III. 561. Ipomcea bona-nox, Linn. Sp. PL 
ed. II. 228 ; Eoem. & Schult. Syst. IV. 217 ; Bl. Bijdr. II. 712 ; Kurz 
Eor. FI. Burm. II. 217 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 197. 
I. grandiflora, Lamk 111. I. 467, and Encyc. Meth. III. 16; Eoem. & 
Schult. Syst. IV. 240 ; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 14, Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. II. 87, and Flor. Ind. I. 497. I. Boxburghii, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 
II. 1, 819. I. noctiflora , Griff. Not. IV. 286. 
Penang: cultivated, Hallier. Singapore: S. Mayer 211. — Distrib. 
Throughout the tropics ; possibly not truly wild in our area. 
17. Argyreia, Lour. 
Climbing rarely sub-erect shrubs. Leaves cordate to lanceolate, 
pubescent or silky. Flowers axillary, usually in many-flowered cymes, 
often sub-capitate ; bracts often conspicuous. Sepals 5, herbaceous in 
flower ; in fruit leathery but little enlarged ; often red within. Gorolla 
funnel-shaped, rose-purple, tube more or less hirsute externally ; limb 
plicate, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included ; anthers oblong, straight. 
Disk annular. Ovary 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma 
2-globose. Fruit a hard dry berry. Seeds 4 or fewer, embedded in a 
mealy pulp. — Distrib. Species about 30, in the tropics of the Old World 
chiefly, and mostly in S.E. Asia and Polynesia. 
Argyreia obtusifolia, Lour. Flor. Cochin-Chin. 135. A large 
climber. Leaves elliptic or oblong, acute or obtuse, with or without a 
sub-mucronate tip, base cuneate or occasionally rounded, upper surface 
pilose, under surface silky strigose, nerves 9 to 11 pairs, often rather 
distinct beneath, very oblique even in wide-leaved plants ; length 5 in., 
breadth 1-5 to 3 in. ; petiole '6 to - 8 in., very rarely 1 to 1-5 in. long. 
Flowers axillary; peduncles usually short, -6 to 1 in., but occasionally 
1-5 to 3 in. long ; cymes sub-capitate, the pedicels -1 to -2 in. long ; 
bracts ovate, '15 to '2 in. long, caducous. Sepals 5, ovate-obtuse, -25 in. 
long, densely silky-strigose externally, sub-patent in fruit, pale red 
within. Corolla 1‘5 in. long, tubular-campanulate, densely uniformly 
hirsute externally. Capsule - 4 in. in diam., globose, pericarp char- 
taceous, pink. Seeds finely grey-velvety, hemispheric, -2 in. in diam. 
Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 333. Convolvulus obtectus, Wall. Cat. 1416. 
Bivea ? obtecta, Choisy, Convolv. Or. 28, and in DC. Prod. IX. 326. 
Argyreia Championi, Benth. FI. Hongkong, 236. A. obtecta, Clarke 
in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 186. Lettsomia Championi, Benth. & 
Hook. f. Gen. PI. II. 869. 
Perak : Scortechini 1384 ! Kedah : Langkawi, Curtis 2852 ! — - 
