Porana.] CI. CONVOLVULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 223 
linear. Sepals in flower a in., linear-oblong, puberulous. Corolla 1-4 in., lobed 
nearly half-way, white. Style linear; stigmas 2, short, oblong. Capsule apiculate, 
glabrous ; fruiting sepals oblong-spathulate, with 3-5 strong longitudinal nerves.— 
The “Snow-creeper” of the English, one of the most beautiful of Indian plants, the 
masses of dazzling white flowers resembling snow-patches in the jungle. It is 
doubtful whether this plant is found wild in the Deccan; Wight's figure represents 
it, but the fruit in his herbarium was sent him from N. India. There is no example 
from the Deccan, all Dalzell's belong to the next species. 
7. P. malabarica, Clarke ; nearl glabrous, leaves ovate deeply cordate 
acute, racemes compound dichotomous, bracts at the forks 1 cordate per- 
sistent, capsule 1 in. obovoid, fruit-sepals equal attaining 1 by 4 in. elliptic. P. 
fame Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 162.—Porana n. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. F. 
Wesr Deccan PENINSULA ; Bombay, Dalzell ; Malabar and Conean, Stocks, Law; 
Canara and Mysore, Law, &c. 
Closely allied to P. racemosa. Fruiting-sepals sometimes only 2 by 1 in., but 
always differing widely from the much smaller narrow one of P. racemosa. 
8. P. truncata, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1873, 136 ; nearly glabrous, 
leaves ovate deeply cordate acute, racemes compound dichotomous, bracts | at 
the forks large cordate persistent, capsule } in. obconoid truncate, fruiting 
sepals equal 2 by 4 in. 
m Mrs., Numklow and Mairung, alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 
(0), &c. 
Resembles P. racemosa, but is stouter and is intermediate between that species 
and T. malabarica, Kurz attempted to distinguish this by the *'depressed-concave"' 
summit of the capsule ; but the fact is that the fresh capsule usually has a greatly 
cpressed-conieal apiculate summit, which in dried specimens often becomes concave. 
P ossibly P, racemosa, P. malabarica, and P. truncata, are varieties of one; but the 
characters of the capsule and fruit-sepals seem well-marked, and the material is 
cient, 
12. BREWERIA, F. Br. 
_ Herbs or undershrubs, large and twining, or small and erect. Leaves un- 
vided. Flowers in axillary peduncled heads or terminal close panicles, or 1-3 
together, sessile and axillary; bracts small. Sepals equal or unequal, in fruit 
scarcely altered (in non-Indian species much enlarged). Corolla campanulate or 
funnel-shaped, limb 5-plaited. Stamens included ; filaments filiform, bases often 
dilated. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, nearly distinct from the base or 
United half their length, stigmas capitate. Capsule globose or ovoid, normally 
(nc ded.—Species 23, in the tropics of both hemispheres, Australia and N. 
America, 
abo . Twiners; flowers medium-large yellowish in peduncled cymes ; styles united 
ut half their length. 
l. B. cordata, Blume Bid. 722; rusty-villous, leaves ovate-cordate 
Sut. Chois, in DC. Prodr. ix. 499. B. Roxburghii, Chois. Convolo. Or. ni, 
c in DC. Prodr. ix. 438; Wight Ic. t. 1370; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. n. or 
onvolvulus semidigynus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13, and Fi. Ind. i. 468, and ed. 
wy $ Wall. ii. 47; Wall. Cat. 1405. Aa 
PST Deccan Penrnsora ; from the Concan Ghauts southwards; East , 
D the Matay PenmwsuLa, from Silhet to Malacca, frequent. Cerros, frequent. 
STRIB, Malaya, ? 
