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1. macranthu, Ilium, and Sch.; J. Tuba, G. Don, Syst. iv. 270 ; Meissn. in Mart. 
FI. Bras. vii. 210 ; Calonyction grandifloruin , Chois, in DC. Prod. ix. 346 ; 
Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi. t. 50. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Burdekiu River, the root eaten by the 
natives, Bowman ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, O'Slianesy. 
17. *1. bona-nox (good night), Linn. Moonflower. An extensive climber, 
the stem often muricate. Leaves cordate-ovate, glabrous, entire or angular or 
lobed, 2 to 8in. long, the petioles 3 to 6in. Peduncles 2 to 6in. ; bracts caducous. 
Flowers 1 to 5. Sepals ^in. long, usually ovate, obtuse, mucronate or shortly 
acute ; in fruit unaltered or slightly enlarged. Corolla white ; tube slender, about 
3in. long ; limb 3 to Sin. diameter, -white or plaits greenish. Anthers shortly 
exserted or subincluded. Capsule narrowed upwards, about lin. diameter. — 
Bot. Mag. t. 752; Meissn. in Mart. FI. Bras. vii. 215; Calonyction speciosum, 
Chois. Convolv. Or. 59 t. 1, fig. 4. 
Hab.: A native of tropical America, now naturalised in Queensland and other warm countries. 
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18. I. Pes-caprae (goat’s foot), Roth, Nov. Sp. PI. 109 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. 
iv. 419. “ Walno-jo,” Mt. Cook, Both. A glabrous perennial, with long prostrate 
creeping or trailing stems. Leaves on long petioles, oval obovate or orbicular, 
broadly emarginate or very obtusely 2-lobed, rather thick, -with nearly parallel 
oblique veins, the lower ones converging at the base of the leaf, mostly 2 to 3in. 
long. Peduncles often as long as the leaves, bearing 1 or 2 rather large pink 
flowers on rather long pedicels. Sepals obtuse, about 3 lines long or the inner 
ones rather longer. Corolla broadly campanulate, somewhat tubular at the base, 
about lAin. long. Ovary more or less perfectly 4-celled, at least at the time of 
flowering. Capsule 2-celied, ovoid or nearly globular, coriaceous, A to fin. long. 
Seeds hairy. — Convolvulus Pes-capra, Linn. Spec. PI. 226 ; C. maritimus, Desr. in 
Lam. Diet. iii. 550 ; Iponuca maritima, R. Br. Prod. 486 ; Bot. Reg. t. 319, and 
probably all the synonyms adduced by Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 349, under I. 
Pes-caprcc except I. carnosa : I. biloba, Forsk. FI. yEg.-Arab. 44 ; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. iv. 212 ; Batatas maritima , Bojer, Hort. Maurit. 224 ; 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 159, fig. 1 ; Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi. t. 57. 
Hab.: Torres Straits, F. v. Mueller; Harvey Bay, Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Port Denison, 
Fitzalan; Kdgecombe Bay, Dallachy; Mackenzie Island, SutherU’.nd; Nerang, Rev. B. Scor- 
techini ; a very common plant on the coastlands. 
The species is common on the seacoasts of most tropical countries in the New as well as the 
Old World. Although placed by Choisy in Ipomcea, there is generally a more or less developed, 
spurious, transverse dissepiment between the ovules and young seeds, subdividing each cell into 
two. — Bentli. 
Roots eaten after being baked and hammered on stones, Roth. 
19. X. carnosa (fleshy), B. Br. Prod. 485 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. iv. 420. A 
prostrate or creeping glabrous perennial. Leaves petiolate, mostly ovate or 
oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, cordate at the base, thick and somew’hat 
fleshy, penniveined, and J to lin. long, but sometimes with 1 or 2 very prominent 
basal lobes on each side, and in some specimens (not Australian) long and narrow 
with a hastate base. Peduncles short, bearing 1 or rarely 2 or 3 rather large 
white flowers. Sepals rather narrow, 4 to 5 lines long at the time of flowering, 
subsequently enlarged, the outer ones mucronate-acute, the inner ones obtuse 
and often rather longer. Corolla campanulate, about ljin. long. Capsule 
nearly globular, more or less perfectly 4-celled, about Ain. diameter, glabrous. 
Seeds densely woolly-bairy. — Convolvulus carnosus, Spreng. Syst. i. 60 ; Batatas 
littoralis and B. acetosafolia, Chois, in DC Prod. ix. 337, 338, with most, if not 
all, of the synonyms adduced ; Convolvulus stoloniferus, Cyr. PI. Rar. 14. t. 5 ; 
Iyomcea acetoscefolia , Room, and Sch.; Meissn. in Mart. FI. Bras. vii. 255 t. 94. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R Brown. 
The species is dispersed along the coasts of the warmer regions of Asia, Africa, and America, 
extending beyond the tropics to the shores of the Mediterranean. Although placed by Choisy in a 
