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CONVOLVULACE2E. 
[ Ipomcea . 
4. I. pes-trigidis, Linn.; Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 363. An 
annual twiner, with slender stems, and petioles clothed with fine 
spreading hairs. Leaves 1-3 in. broad, membranous, pilose, mostly 
deeply palmately 5-7-lobed, with oblong-spathulate acute lobes, the 
lobes sometimes three only (/. Jiepaticifolia , Linn.), sometimes shallow 
and deltoid, rarely absent. Flowers in a dense long-peduncled head, 
surrounded by many ob lanceolate obtuse foliaceous bracts. Sepals 
•f— f in. long, lanceolate, densely clothed with bristly hairs. Corolla 
purplish, 1-1^ in. long. Capsule small, glabrous, included in the 
calyx. 
Mauritius, on the banks of the canal of the Grande Riviere, Bojer ! Common in 
Tropical Asia. Also gathered by Dr. Meller and Dr. Kirk in Zambesi-land. 
5. I. peltata, Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 359. A robust shrubby 
glabrous climber, with terete stems. Leaves ovate or roundish- 
cuspidate, 3-12 in. broad, the petiole inserted a third of the way up, 
the main nerves very distinct to the edge, rather coriaceous, bright 
green above. Flowers up to a dozen, distinctly pedicelled, on a long 
common peduncle. Sepals obtuse, much imbricated, i-1 in. long. 
Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, yellowish white, with red 
spots. Anthers pilose. Capsule large. Seeds pilose. Convolvulus 
peltatus, Linn. Spiranthera peltata, Bojer , Sort. Maur. 226. 
Mauritius, in the forests of Flacq and Grand-port. Rodriguez, abundant in 
the Riviere Coco Valley, Balfour ! Seychelles, frequent in the island of Mahe, 
Bojer ! Sir A. H. Gordon ! Dr. Wright ! Polynesia to the Comoro Islands. 
6. I. cymosa, B. and S. ; Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 371. A woody 
climber, with glabrous or finely pilose terete slender stems. Leaves 
entire, ovate or oblong, acute, deeply cordate, 1-3 in. long, mem- 
branous, glabrous or beneath pilose; petiole 1-1£ in. long. Flowers 
3-12 in a shortly-peduncled cyme. Sepals f in. long, much imbricated, 
obtuse with a distinct cusp. Corolla l-\ in. long, pinkish-white. 
Capsule globose, i-i in. thick. Seeds 4, pilose. Convolvulus cymosus, 
Desr. in Lam. Pncycl. iii. 556. C. bifidus, Vahl. 
Seychelles, common in Mahe near the shore, and also on the table-lands. 
Horne , 526 ! Common in Tropical Asia. 
7. I. leucantha, Jacy. Lc. t. 318. A glabrous annual, with slender 
twining stems. Leaves entire, cordate-deltoid, acute, membranous, 
1-1 \ in. long ; petiole an inch or less long. Flowers without a common 
peduncle, 1-2 from each node on pedicels f-1 in. long, thickened in 
the upper third. Sepals f in. long, obtuse, much-imbricated, with a 
distinct cusp. Corolla reddish, 1-1^ in. long. Capsule small, globose. 
Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 382. Convolvulus leucanthus, Desr. in Lam. 
Pncycl. iii. 541. 
Seychelles ; Mahe, in long grass in waste ground on the slope of the Signal 
Mountain, Port Victoria, Horne , 277! Rodriguez, on the shore in several places, 
Balfour ! Also Tropical America. 
