48 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 
A littoral species extending from Eastern Africa and the Masca- 
rene Islands throughout South-Eastern Asia, and thence to North 
Australia and Polynesia. This species occurs in America as a 
cultivated plant only. Ipomcea grandifiora Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 
497, is not this species, but a form of Ipomcea Bona-nox, the true 
Moon-flower,” originally introduced from America. 
95. Ipomcea Batatas Lamk., Encyc. Meth., vi., 14; Hook, f., 
Flor. Brit. Ind.,iv., 202 ; Watt, Diet., iv., 478. Convolvulus Batatas 
Linn., Sp. PI. 154; Roxb., Flor. Ind., i., 483. The 8weet~potato. 
Ameni; cultivated, BoUnson; Hume. Anderut; cultivated, Alcoch ; 
‘^of very inferior quality,” Wood. Akati; cultivated, “ only one 
small plot,” Fleming ! 
96. Ipomoea denticulata Ohoisy in DO., Prodr., ix., 379 ; 
Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 208. 
Minikoi; Fleming ! 
A littoral species extending from the Mascarene Islands to Ceylon, 
the Andamans, Nicobars, Malaya and Burma (extending as far north 
asAkyab on the coast of Arracan), thence to North Australia and 
Polynesia, but, like Ochrosia horhonica and Tournefovtia argentea, not 
as yet reported from the coasts of the Indian mainland. 
97. Ipomoea biloba Forsk., Flor. Aeg. Arab. 44; Hook, f., 
Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 212. I. Pes-Capree Roth., Nov. Sp. 109. Co 7 i- 
volvulus Pes-CaprcB Linn., Sp. Pi. 159; Roxb., Flor. Ind i 
486. ’ 
Bitrapar; plentiful, Hume! Fleming ! Kalpeni; Alcoch! Akati; on 
shore and also solitary plants in interior, Fleming ! Kadamum; only 
on shore and not very common, Fleming! Minikoi; Flemmg ! 
A littoral species, cosmopolitan on tropical sea-shores. 
98. Ipomoea sinuata Ortega, Dec. 84; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 
Ind., iv., 214. Convolvulus dissectus Linn., Mantiss. 204. 
Minikoi; Fleming ! 
Native of America, now widely spread in the Old World : here 
growing quite wild. 
^ 99. Convolvulus parviflorus Vahl, Symb., iii., 29; Roxb., 
Flor. Ind. (ed. Carey & Wall), ii., 51; Hook. 1, Flor. Brit. Ind ! 
iv., 220. 
Minikoi; common on the coast, Fleming ! 
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