Neuropeltis. | CI. CONVOLVULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 225 
l. N. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 1322, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. ii. 44 ; leaves elliptic or oblong acute or shortly acuminate, racemes 1-6 
in, rusty-villous or tomentose dense. Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 96; Chois. Convolv. 
Or. 109, t. 2, fig. 12, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 437 ; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 291; 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 999, N. ovata, Wall. Cat. 1323 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 110, 
Mu Bg. 13, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 437. N. bracteata and intermedia, Griff. 
1 . iv. 285. 
Maray PrwiNsULA, from Mergui southwards; Wallich, Griffith, Maingay, &c. 
Matapar Prarns, near Tambacherry Ghat, Beddome.—Distris. Borneo. 
.. Leave 5 by 23 in. base obtuse or rhomboid, when young more or less rusty- 
villous, sometimes on both surfaces, adult glabrous or nearly so, feather-nerved ; 
petiole 4-1 in. Racemes subsessile, i.e. flowerbearing nearly to the base; pedicels in 
flower 4 in.; bract minute. Sepals 4 in. Corolla }-4 in., widely campanulate, 
rufous-villous without. Ovary hairy. Bract in fruit 1-13 in. diam., orbicular, base 
rounded or cordate, scariose, nerved. Capsule 4 in., ovoid, glabrescent. 
14. CRESSA. 
_A very small shrub, erect or diffuse, grey-pubescent. Leaves small, sessile, 
elliptic, acute. Flowers small, sessile in the upper axils, often in terminal 
clusters or spikes, Sepals equal, not enlarged in fruit. Corolla small, funnel- 
» White or rose; lobes 5, subimbricated (not plaited) in bud. Stamens 
*xserted, filaments filiform. Ovary sub-2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, distinct, 
linear, stigmas capitate. Capsule 2-4-valved, usually l-seeded. Seed glabrous ; 
cotyledons linear, plicate. 
. l €. cretica, Linn.; Lamk. Ill. t. 183; Sibth. Fl. Grec. t. 256; Chois. 
” DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 
l4. C. indica, Retz. Obs. iv. 24; Roxb. Cat. Pl. (1813), and Fl. Ind. ed. 
Carey § Wall. ii. 72; Wall. Cat. 2260; Chois. Convolv. Or. 113. C. australis, 
Br. Prodr, 490 
D Throughout Inpa from the Punjab and Calcutta to CEYroN, not common.— 
STRIB. All warm regions, . 
Stem 6-18 in. Leaves 3-2 in. Sepals i in. Corolla à in.; lobes reflexed. 
Capoule è in.—The Indian plant differs from the common form of C. cretica in having 
(not 1) seeds, according to Retz and Roxburgh. 
15. CUSCUTA, Linn. 
Leafless twinin arasites, yellow or reddish not green. Flowers small, 
White or rose, fascicled, sessile o shortly pedicelled ; bracts 0 or small. Sepals 
one subequal, distinct or shortly connate. Corolla ovoid or campanulate j 
th , Short, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5-4, inserted near the throat o 
* corolla-tube, filaments short linear ; anthers oblong, shortly exsert ; scales 
bear the base of the filaments or at the base of the corolla, often fimbriste, 
ay 0. Ovary completely or incompletely 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 1 or 2, 
Emas 2, Capsule globose or ovoid, dry or succulent, circumsciss or nd y 
twier we Up, 4-2-seeded. Seeds glabrous, albumen fleshy ; embryo 8. ris 
"ted, cotyledons 0 or obscure.—Species 80, in warm and tempera 
Tegions, 
SUBGENUS 1. Monogynella. Ovary, and young fruit, narrowed up- 
into a single short style with 2 long stigmas. 
l. C. reflexa, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 3, t. 104, and FI. Ind. i. 446, and ed. 
ut Wall. i. 466 ; flowers subracemose, bracts small fleshy sehen 
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