Pilikai. Plate 14 from the book: Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands

Plate 14 of 44 from Isabella Sinclair's Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands (1885). The coloured illustration is accompanied by the following text describing the plant:

The Pilikai.

Ipomoea Turpethum, R. Br.?

This is another of the many varieties of the convolvulus family, which grows so freely all over these islands. As its names indicates (meaning near the sea), it is usually found on the sea-coast; but it also met with in the valleys a considerable distance inland. It grows most abundantly on the windward, or wet side, of the islands. In favourable localities the blossoms and leaves are occasionally larger, but those represented are of average size.

The seeds are held in much repute by the natives as a medicine.