Hallier f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb, v. 16 (1893) p. 552. Perennial with a small woody rootstock ; stems elongate, prostrate, not twining, slender, angular, glabrous. Leaves 1/2-1 by 1/16-1/4 in., linear-hastate or oblong-obovate, the linear leaves usually acute, the obovate ones obtuse, often deeply emarginate and 3-toothed at the apex, all glabrous and dilated at the base into toothed auricles : petioles very short, filiform, or the leaves sessile. Flowers axillary ; peduncles 1/3-7/8 in. long, filiform, solitary, with minute alternate lanceo¬late bracts beneath the pedicels ; pedicels 1-3, stout, somewhat clavate, 1/5 in. long. Sepals 1/6-1/5 in. long, elliptic, subobtuse, strongly mucronate (especially the inner ones), glabrous, the outer rather shorter than the inner. Corolla pale-yellow, less than 1/2 in. long ; bands not very strongly lineate. Capsules 1/6 in. in diam., globose. Seeds trigonous, with a longitudinal ridge on the rounded back, glabrous. Ipomoea tridentata, Roth, in Roem. Archiv. Bot. v. 1 (1798) part 3, p. 38 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 205 ; Grah. Cat. p. 131 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 165 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 218 ; Woodr, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 171.—Flowers : Aug.-Oct. VERN. Morga.
KONKAN : Shrivardhan, Woodrow ! ; near Bassein and Ghorabandar, Dalzell & Gibson ; S. Konkan, Kanitkar ! S. M. COUNTRY : Badami, Woodrow !, Cooke ! GUJARAT : Neriad, Woodrow !—DISTRIB. India (W. Peninsula, extending north to Chota Nagpore) ; Ceylon, Angola, Mauritius, Madagascar.
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