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Stigmatic lobes 4 to 8 or rarely 2. Ovary 2-cellec[, with 1 



oviUe in each cell :.•-•• 4. Polyjieuia. 



Stjle more or less branched below the stigmas or divided to the 

 base. • 



Style-branches 2, with globular stigmas. 

 Corolla-limb 5-augled or shortly 5-lobeJ, folded in the bud. 



Rowers axillary ...--. 6. Breweria. 



Corolla-limb of 5 divisions, imbricate in the bud. Flowers in 



temmal heads or spikes 7. Cressa. 



(The Asiatic Poranas have also sometimes a branched style.) 



Style-branches 4, with linear stigmas 8. Evolvulus. 



Ovary itself divided into 2 carpels, each with a basal style and con- 



tainin^^ 1 or 2 ovules . / 9- l^^CHONDnA, 



I-eafy plants (low and diffuse). Calvx 5-toothed. Style branched, 



^itK globular stigmas . ...:.•/ 10. Wilsonia. 



^ess parasites with filiform stems. Style branched or divided to 

 the base U. Cuscuta. 



1. ERYCIBE, Roxl). 



2-lobed divisions, 

 isions themselves 



Corolla witli a short tube, the litnb spreading, of 5 deeply : 

 'lie lobes ill the bud closely folded over eacli other, the div _ 

 fo>^torted-imbricate. Ovary 1-cclled, with 4 erect ovules ; stigma sessile, 

 fgeand tliick, divisible it»to 2, but marked outside with 5 or 10 angles or 

 f^i^ows (the result of the impression of the folds of the corolla or o the 

 ^™eas in the l^ud). Fruit an indehiscent bcny, contaming us^ialiy a 

 single seed.— Tall woody evergreen climbers. Leaves entire. Plowers 

 ^"^^lUu short dense racemes, cymes or clusters, either all axillary or the 



Pper ones in a terminal leafless panicle. 



Jlie genns consists of very few species, very nearly allied to each other, ^Fead over 

 fopical Asia. The only Australian one appears to be the one most coinuiou m East ludia 

 '"d the Archipelago. 



!■ E.paniculata, Eoxh. ; FL Coram, ii. 31. t. 159. A very tall 

 ^^Jy climber, the vounfr branches under side of the yonng leaves and inflo- 

 ^<^eiice more or less rusty-tomentose or villous, the adult foliage glabrous 



■■nearly so. Leaves shortly petiolate, oval-elliptical, more or less acummate, 

 y^, coriaceous, mostly 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers yellow, m short dense 



f mes or eou.pact panicles, the lower ones often axillary and much shorter 

 ^'^'''n the leav.i *l,i ...... ^... f.,.m,-no-_ in the few Australian specimens 



?«en, a s 



■ leaves, the upper ones forming, in the few Australian ^pe"^en. 

 1 - - ^mall narrow, terminal panicle, which, in the Indian ones is usuany 

 If and much branched. Sepals orbicular, a little more than 1 line lo g 

 ^7 outside. CoroUa-tube scarcely so long as the sepals ; limb spread g 

 'V °V I'^es diameter, pubescent outside, the divisions deeply andb oadly 

 !;;'f . Filaments attached to the base of the tube ; anthers ovoid, acu- 

 Jj^te witu rather long points. Berry in the Indian specimens ovoul 

 fe \ i". long, not seen in the Australian ones.-DC. Prod. ix. 464 ; 

 oM, Illustr. t. 180 (the stiguui incorrectly drawn). 



Ql^eeasl 



and. 



"» ana including probably some other descriDca i 

 '!« genus being as yet very vague and uncertain. 



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