224 CI. CONVOLVULACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Breweria. 
A powerful twiner; branches villous. Leaves 4 by 24 in., those on the flowering 
branchlets ovate-cordate; petiole 14 in.  Peduncles about as long as the petioles, 
2-5-fid.; bracts l in., oblong; cymes subcapitate, rusty-villous. Sepals $-3 in., 
ovate-oblong, subacute, subequal. Corolla 1} in., wide-funnel-shaped, hairy without ; 
limb subentire. Style 2 in. united for} in. Capsule 4 in., subglobose, glabrous, 
splitting into numerous vertical segments; sepals in fruit somewhat enlarged, ovate, 
hardly so long as the capsule. Seeds about as broad as long, nearly glabrous. 
9. B. elegans, Chois. Convolv. Or. 112, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 439; 
fulvous-villous, leaves elliptic those of the flowering branches oblong or sub- 
linear none cordate. Convolvulus elegans, Wall. Cat. 1392. 
British Burma; Prome, Wallich. 
Very near B. cordata, differing chiefly in the leaves. Leaves of the flowering 
shoots (for 18 in. near their tops) 14 by 4 in., narrow-oblong, mucronate; lower 
leaves 3 by 1} in., obtuse, almost rounded at both ends.  Pedicels l-3 in., rather 
longer than in B. Roxburghii. Corolla as of B. Roxburghii but the tube appears 
more cylindric, less funnel-shaped, Capsule not seen.— Material rather scanty for the 
support of so critical a species. 
** Small, erect; leaves small; flowers small, axillary, 1-3 together white or 
pinkish ; styles distinct very nearly to the base. 
3. B. evolvuloides, Chois. Convolv. Or. 112, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 
439; leaves 1—3 in. oblong or elliptic nearly glabrous, pedicels 4-4 in., capsule 
i-i in. Seddera evolvuloides, Wight Ic. t. 1369. Evolvulus alsinoides, Wall. 
Cat, 1317, by admixture. 
Deccan Peninsuta; Heyne; near Tuticorin, Wight. . 
A very branched, rigid, harsh, small shrub; with a few scattered strigose hairs. 
Sepals } in., oblong, nearly glabrous, suberect both in flower and fruit. Corolla 4 in. 
Capsule subglobose, shortly pointed, glabrous tipped with a tuft of hairs 4-valved. 
Seeds glabrous. 
4. B. latifolia, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 877 ; leaves 1— in. elliptic densely 
silky, flowers sessile, capsule 1 in. Seddera latifolia, Hochst. § Steud. in Flora, 
1844, Beibl. 8, t. 5, fig. B.C.; Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 114. Cressa latifolia, T. And. in Journ, Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 2b, excluding 
the Deccan synonyms. 
Ag PunsaB and ScixpE ; Vicary, Stocks, &e.—Distrrs. W. Tropical Asia, E. Tropical 
rica. 
Dr. T. Anderson thought this plant not specifically separated from the Deccan 
B. evolvuloides by its hairiness and sessile flowers; but the capsule is twice as large, 
orn, and the seeds ovoid-oblong, twice as long as broad. Sepals acuminate, densely 
silky. 
13. NEUROPELTIS, Wall. 
A large scandent shrub ; shoots rufous-villous or tomentose. Leaves alternate, 
petioled, coriaceous, ovate or oblong. Racemes axillary, or subpanicled towards 
the ends of the branches ; flowers numerous, small, pedicelled ; bract under the 
calyx inconspicuous in flower, in fruit enlarged 1 in. or more diam. Sepals 
suborbicular, in fruit hardly enlarged. Corolla wide-campanulate, deeply lobed, 
lobes induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens exserted or included, filaments 
filiform. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, separate from the 
base, shortly linear, stigmas subcapitate or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule globose, 
4-valved, l-seeded, sessile in the middle of the flat bract, Seed globose, 
glabrous, albuminous ; cotyledons plaited.—Species 2, the following and an 
can. 
