180 CI. CONVOLVULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Erycibe. 
The following genera are expected to occur in British Burma. 
Dichondra repens, Forst, found in Mts. beyond Ava by Wallich, belongs to a small 
group of Convolvulacee, with a deeply 2-4-lobed ovary with basilar style, and a fruit 
of 2-4 utricles; it is a small creeping herb with cordate or reniform leaves, and 
small solitary axillary flowers. It is a native of warm countries in the old and new 
worlds. 
Blinkworthia lycioides, Choisy (DC. Prodr. ix. 334), a very imperfectly known 
genus from near Ava. An erect villous shrub, with linear leaves glabrous above 
and subsilky beneath, short 1-fld. peduncles, 3 involucriform bracts, 5 sepals, a 
small urceolate corolla, 2-lobed stigma and 1-seeded berry. 
Tarsvs 1. Convolvulese. Corolla-limb plaited or induplicate in bud. 
* Fruit indehiscent. 
Stigma large, globose, subsessile 1. ERYCIBE. 
Stigmas 2, linear-oblong . . . . . 2. Rrvea. 
Ovary 4-celled ; style long, stigmas 2 3. ARGYREIA. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style long, stigmas 2 4. LeTTSOMIA. 
** Capsule 2—4-valved, or fragile and breaking up. 
Stigmas 2-globose. Filaments linear or dilated near the base. 
Stigmas 2-globose. Filaments with an oblong process near the 
base . . . . . 4 4 4 t o eoe ooo eoe oos 
Ovary l-celled. Stigmas short-oblong. Bracts shorter than the 
. Ipomma. 
. HEwrrrIA. 
5 
6. LEPISTEMON. 
7 
8. CALYSTEGIA. 
ealyx QM 
Ovary 1-celled. Stigmas short-oblong. Bracts enclosing the calyx 
Ovary 2-celled. Style 1. Stigmas short-oblong . . . . 9. CONVOLVULUS. 
2-celled. Styles 2, each with 2 linear stigmas . . . . 10. EvoLvULvs. 
Sepals in fruit enlarged, scarious. Capsule l-seeded. . . . . 11. PORANA. 
Styles 2, or 1 deeply 2-partite; stigmas capitate . . . . .12. BREWERIA. 
Styles 2. Bract in fruit large, orbicular flat, reticulated . o. « 18. NEUROPELTIS. 
TRIBUS 2. Oressese.  Corolla-lobes imbricate in bud. 
Leaves small, sessile. Sepals distinct. Styles 2 . . . . . . 14. Cressa. 
Trisvs 3. Cuscutese.  Leafless, yellow, twining parasites, 
Corolla small campanulate or ovoid . . . . . . . . . . 15, CUSCUTA. 
l. ER'YCIBE, Rob. 
Scandent or diffuse shrubs, or erect trees; shoots rusty-tomentose. Leaves 
from ovate to narrow-oblong, acuminate, entire, coriaceous. Cymes short, 
axillary or in terminal racemes or panicles; bracts usually inconspicuous 
Sepals subequal, orbicular, coriaceous, adpressed to the base of the fruit. C K 
white or yellowish; tube shortly campanulate, densely hairy ; limb laited in 
bud, glabrous, lobes subbilobed, entire or serrate. Stamens on the corolla throat, 
filaments short; anthers ovate-lanceolate. Ovary globose, 1-celled, 4-ovulec ; 
style 0, stigma large subglobose 2-lobed or -partite. Berry fleshy, ovoid OF 
el ipsoid, l-seeded. Albumen scanty, irregularly intruded between the plicate 
fleshy cotyledons; radicle inferior.—Species 20; from India to Australia. 
* Cymes in terminal racemes or panicles, sometimes also axillary, 
1. E. paniculata, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 31, t. 159, and Fl. Ind. i. 535, ad 
ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 284; branchlets angular, leaves obovate or obovate-oblong 
bruptly acuminate base attenuate, cymes in narrow terminal panicles, berry > 
in. ellipsoid. Wall. Cat. 1330; Wight Il. t. 180; Chois. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ^ 
