N. 0. CONVOLVUI.AOEiE. 
873 
Vern . : — Dudiya-kulmi, Kalmilata; llalkalmi (BeDg.) ; Gul- 
chandni (Bomb.) ; Naga-mughatei (Tam.); Mundavalli (Mai.); 
Nagara-mGkuttykai (Tel.) ; Somavel, baDya bauri, chandra 
Kant (H.). 
Eng. Moon flower. 
Habitat Cultivated throughout India, native of tropical 
America. 
An extensive climber. Stems smooth or not, rarely muricate. 
Leaves cordate-ovate, acute, glabrous, entire or angular or Iobed, 
3-8in. Petiole 3-6in. Peduncles 2-6in. long, 1-5-flowered ; 
bracts caducous. Flowering sepals ovate, obtuse mucronate, or 
shortly acute, rarely obtuse ; in fruit unaltered, or enlarged. 
Corolla pure white, tube 3 by Jin., linear, many times longer 
than the sepals; limb 3-5in. diam., with white or greenish plaits, 
never with at all purple. Stamens about as long as the Corolla- 
tube. Anthers shortly exserted or sub-included. Ovary 2-celled. 
Capsule one inch, ovoid-oblong, narrowed upwards; peduncle 
at length somewhat thickened. Seeds £in. long, polished, 
yellow, glabrous. 
The flower expands at night, closes to wither about one 
hour after sunrise. 
Uses : — The capsules and seeds, as well as the flowers, leaves 
and roots are included amongst the medicines supposed to have 
some merit as remedies against snake-bite (Ainslie). 
In Brazil, the ■seeds ot Ipomoea bonanox are largely employed against 
snake-bits. The seeds have the following composition: Water, 9'00 p. c.; 
crystalline resin, 0‘50 p. c. ; amorphous bitter substance, 0 015 p. c. ; carbohy- 
drates, 17 '28 p. c. ; tnnnoids, 0 - 8l p. c. ; fatty oil, 9'85 p. c. ; resin acids, 1‘25 
p. c. ; proteins, 2'70 p. c, ; organic acids, 0'095 p. c. ; ash, 5'00 p. c. 
In the leaves of the plant is found a small quantity of a crystalline 
glucoside. [Peckolt Chemist and Druggist, 1910, quoted in J. Ch. Ind., Jan. 16, 
1911, p. 46]. 
834. I. muricata, Jacq. h.f.b.i., iv. 197 : Roxb. 
167, 
Vern. : — Bftrikbhauri (Konkan) ; Gariya (Bomb.). 
Habitat: — Himalaya, frequent from Kangra to Sikkim, -Dec- 
can hills ; cultivated elsewhere. 
A scandent glabrous herb. Stems rough, with small tubercu- 
lous out-growths. Leaves cordate-ovate, abruptly tapering into 
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