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LXXXV. CONVOLVULACE.E. 
[IjHlHUia. 
•a pure white or with a yellow eye, in cymes of 6 to 12 or even more, rarely 
solitary or nearly so, on a short rather thick common peduncle. Sepals 2 lo 3 
or in some Indian specimens nearly 4 lines long, glabrous, coriaceous, nearly 
equal in length. Corolla campanulate, lin. long or even larger, often hairy 
outside at the top. Ovary 2-celled. Capsule shortly acuminate, longer than the 
calyx. Seeds clothed with long soft loose hairs. — Bot. Reg. 1813, t. 24 ; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 211 ; Rumph. Herb. Amb. v., t. 158. 
Hub.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy (somet'mes covering the trees with a sheet of white flowers). 
The species is common in the greater part of India and the Archipelago, and is scarcely to he 
distinguished from the 1. umbellata of tropical America and Africa, except by the colour of the 
flowers, which, in the latter species, is yellow. — Benth. 
29. I. linifolia (Flax-leaved), Blumc; Chois, in l>c. Prod. ix. 369 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. iv. 423. A slender twiner, glabrous or clothed or sprinkled with long 
silky hairs. Leaves petiolate, narrow-lanceolate, entire, rounded or truncate at 
the base, 1 to 2in. long. Peduncles slender, mostly about as long as the leaves, 
bearing sometimes a forked cyme, more frequently a simple loose 1-sided raceme 
of 3 or more yellow flowers, the bracts small but persistent. Pedicels nearly as 
long as the calyx. Sepals ovate or lanceolate, acute, nearly equal, 2k to nearly 
3 lines long. Corolla campanulate. about fin. long. Ovary 2-celled, but the 
dissepiment usually drying up after flowering. Capsule small, smooth, globular, 
usually 1-celled. Seeds 4, glabrous. — Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 205 ; Akinneria 
cnspitosa, Chois. Conv. Or. t. 6, and in DC. Prod. ix. 435. 
ITab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Common in India and the Eastern Archipelago. I refer this plant to Blunie's 1. linifolia, on 
the authority of a specimen received from Miquel under that name, which agrees well with 
Blume’s short diagnosis. — Benth. 
30. I. chryAeides (flowers like the Chryseis or Eschscholtzia), Ivcr, Pot. 
liiil. t. 270 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 423. A slender glabrous twiner. Leaves on 
long petioles, broadly ovate-cordate or almost hastate, acuminate, 1 to 2in. long, 
entire or with 2 broad rounded and sometimes toothed basal lobes. Peduncles as 
long as the leaves or nearly so, with 2 spreading branches, each bearing 2 to 
4 small yellow flowers, with 1 in the fork. Sepals 2 to 2 k lines long, obovate or 
broadly oblong, truncate or retuse and herbaceous at the end, with a small 
recurved point in the centre, giving the cyme a squarrose aspect. Corolla broadly 
campanulate, not twice as long as the calyx. Stamens and style often as long as 
the corolla or nearly so. Capsule 3 to 4 lines diameter, nearly globular, with 
4 raised longitudinal ribs and usually transversely wrinkled when quite ripe. 
Seeds pubescent, — Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 382 ; 'Wight, Ic. t. 157 ; Hook. FI. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 206. 
ITab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Common in E. India and the Archipelago. 
31. I. flava (yellow), F. v. M.; Bmth. FI. Austr. iv. 424. A rather slender 
glabrous twiner. Leaves petiolate, cordate-ovate, mostly acuminate, with large 
rounded or angular basal auricles, or the upper ones lanceolate-sagittate, 1 to 
2in. long. Peduncles rather long, bearing an irregular dense cyme of very few 
yellow or nearly white flowers on short pedicels or sometimes the flower solitary. 
Bracts very small. Sepals ovate or oblong, obtuse, rigid but smooth and almost 
membranous, 3 to 4 lines long. Corolla campanulate, apparently about lin. 
long. Anthers rather large. Capsule globular, coriaceous, at length wrinkled, 
about 4 lines diameter. Seeds glabrous. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 
32. I. obscura (obscure), Ker, Bot. Bri/. t. 239 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 424. 
A slender glabrous or pubescent twiner. Leaves on slender petioles, broadly and 
deeply cordate- ovate, acuminate, from under lin. to nearly 2in. long and broad. 
