Ipoimea.] 
LXXXV. CONVOLVULACEiE. 
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39. I. erecta (stems erect), 11. Br. Prod. 487 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 427. 
Stems from a perennial base, erect or ascending, simple or slightly branched, 
softly tomentose or villous as well as the foliage and inflorescence, the hairs 
intricate on the branches, more appressed on the leaves, and often rust-coloured. 
Leaves very shortly petiolate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or acute, not cordate, 
1 to 2in. long, the upper ones smaller and narrower. Peduncles mostly shorter 
than the leaves, bearing 1, 2 or 3 pink flowers, the pedicels short, the bracts very 
small. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, rather acute, softly villous or nearly glabrous, 
of a somewhat firmer consistence at the base as in many species of Convolvulus, 
the outer ones 3 to 4 lines long, the inner ones smaller. Corolla campanulate, 
about fin. long. Stigmatic lobes very broadly ovate, recurved. Capsule, 
globular, readily splitting into G to 8 valves, as in Convolvulus parvijlorus and its 
allies. Seeds glabrous.— Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 354 ; Convolvulus credits, 
Spreng. Syst. i. 612. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown, Henne. 
40. I. coccinea (crimson), Linn.; Bot. Mar/, t. 221. A slender twiner. 
Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, glabrous, 2 to 4in. long, entire or lobed, on petioles 
1 to 3in. Peduncles about as long as the leaves, bearing a loose cyme of few 
or many flowers ; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals elliptic, suddenly acuminate, 
fin. long, unaltered in fruit. Corolla crimson (or in some forms orange or 
yellow) ; tube about lin. long, mouth fin. diameter. Ovary completely 4-celled. 
Capsule fin. or rather more, ovoid, smooth, completely 4-celled ; dissepiments 
thin, membranous, persistent. Seeds densely furred. — 1. luteola, Jacq. ; I. 
plnenicea, Roxb.; Convolvulus coccincus, pltceniceus, and luteolus, Spreng.; Quamoclit 
coccinea, Moench.; Q. plnenicea, Chois. 
Hab.: South America. Naturalised in many warm countries. Often met with as a weed in 
cultivation. 
41. * 1 . Quamoclit (old generic name), Linn. Sp. PL 227; Benth. FI. 
A ustv. iv. 428. A slender glabrous twiner. Leaves sessile, deeply pinnatifid, 
with linear-subulate entire segments. Peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing 
1 to 3 scarlet flowers on long pedicels thickened upwards. Sepals obtuse, 2 to 
3 lines long. Corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, f to nearly lin. long ; limb 
short, spreading, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens and style longer than the tube. 
Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Capsule ovoid-globular, glabrous, 
rather longer than the calyx, completely 4-celled. Seeds glabrous. — Bot. Mag. 
t. 244 ; Quamoclit vulf/aris, Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 336. 
Hab.: Common in Queensland. 
The species, believed to be of East Indian origin, has long been extensively cultivated fo 1 ' 
ornament in almost all warm civilised regions, and has established itself as a weed in the New 
as well as in the Old World. — Benth. 
42. I. cataractae (after first habitat, Cascade Bay, Norfolk Island), Endl. 
Prod. FI. Xorf. IsL 53. Stems twining, silky-hirsute. Leaves cordate, entire, 
nr slightly lobed, puberulous above, under surface silky-tomentose, lateral lobes 
obtuse, middle one acuminate and somewhat obtuse. Peduncles 8-flowered. 
Involucre polypliyllous ; bracts linear, undulate, long as the calyx. Sepals ovate, 
•acuminate, more than half the length of the corolla. — F. Bauer, 111. PI. Norf. 
Isl. t. 153 and 151. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 
