322 
FLORA OF THE SUNDRIBUNS. 
Sundribuns (Backerganj District) and in the northern clearings. The plant has 
alternate crisped leaves and usually lies quite flat on the ground. 
130 . Heliotropium Linn. 
348. Heliotropium indiciim Linn.; F. I. i. 454; F. B. 1 . iv. 152 
E. D. H 102. 
Suta Khal, in clearing, not common, Prain ! 
An annual kerb, mostly on waysides and in waste-places, rarely in fields j 
properties unimportant. 
Distrib, — Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 
Mr. Clarke s list of Sundribun plants includes also Heliotropium omalifolium. 
This species is not present from the Sundribuns in the Calcutta Herbarium ; it 
should be looked for in the northern and eastern clearings. 
XLI,— CONVOLVriACE^* 
131. Stictocardia Hallier f. 
149* Stictocardia tiliaefolia Hallier f. Argyreia tilise folia F. B. I. 
iv. 184. Convolvulus gangeticus F .1. i. 467. 
Banks of tidal rivers in western parts, Kurz\ Calcutta Garden 
Collectors \ Sea-face, 1 
A twin'ng or climbing shrub j properties unimportant 
Distrib.-S.-E. Asia. 
133 , Merremia Dennst. 
350. Merremia hederacea Hallier f. Ipom^a poly ant ha F. B. I. iv. 
206. 
Eastern Sundribuns, Clarke 1 
A twining shrub ; properties unimportant 
D .STRiB. — Malaya. 
133 , Ipomoea Linn. 
Flowers large, white ; leaves ovate-cordate entire ; seeds shaggy with 
long hairs along the angles; climbing . . . longiflora. 
Flowers purple or, if whitish or pale- purple, with at least a dark 
purple eye: — 
Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed ; seeds shaggy with long hairs along 
the angles ; climbing .... paniculata. 
Leaves not palmately or digitately lobed : — 
Leaves orbicular, obtuse or emarginate or 2-lobed ; seeds 
villous, but not shaggy with long hairs along the 
angles ; plant creeping in sand • , Fes-caprse. 
Leaves acute or acuminate at the tip 
Floating on water or rooting in mud at edges of ponds ; 
leaves elliptic, oblong-cordate or hastate, sometimes 
