L reiver ia?^ Convolvulacecr. 227 



fruit ; cor. nearly rotate, lobes obscure ; stam. 5, exserted ; 

 ov. 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, styles 2, each deeply 

 bifid, stigmas linear ; capsule globose, 4-valved, usually 4- 

 seeded. — Sp. 70; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. alsinoides, L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 393 (1762). Visnu-kranti, 6". 

 ^7ichnukiranti, T. 



Herm. Mus. 11, y]^ 56. Burm. Thes. 11, 19. Fl. Zeyl. n. ']6. Moon 

 Cat. 23. Thw. Enum. 213. C. P. 1926. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 220. " Burm. Thes. t. 9, and t. 6, f. i. Wight, 111. t. 

 J 68 b, f. 10. 



Perennial herb with a small woody branched rootstock, 

 ■stems numerous, prostrate, speading, slender, wiry, usually 

 with long spreading hair ; 1, numerous, ^-f in., nearly sessile, 

 oblong-oval, usually acute at base, very obtuse but apiculate, 

 generally densely covered with long hair on both sides ; fl. 

 small, on short filiform ped., solitary or 2, bracts small, linear- 

 lanceolate, persistent, peduncle filiform, hairy, usually longer 

 than 1. ; sep. lanceolate, acute, very hairy ; cor. f in. diam. ; 

 capsule very small, seeds glabrous. 



Dry sandy ground in the low country up to 2000 ft.; very common. 

 Fl. all the year ; bright light blue. 



Throughout the Tropical and Sub-tropical World. 



E. hirsiitus, Lam., is sometimes distinguished as a species, but there 

 15 every gradation between nearly smooth and very hairy. One of our 

 most familiar plants ; the intensely bright-blue flowers, though small, are 

 very attractive. Much used as a bitter tonic and febrifuge. 



\Porana pajiiadata, Roxb., given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 222, 

 has no claims to nativity here, but is commonly cultivated. The Kew 

 specimens were from Sir J. Stewart Mackenzie.] 



9. BREWERIA, Br. 



Perennial climber, 1. large, cordate, densely tomentose, fl. 

 rather large, in axillary cymes ; sep. 5, nearly equal ; cor. 

 widely funnel-shaped, hairy outside ; stam. 5, included ; ov. 

 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, style i, cleft half way 

 ■down, stigmas globose ; capsule dehiscent vertically by many 

 valves ; seeds 4, glabrous. — Sp. 23 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



B. cordata, Bl. Bijdr. 722 (1825). 



Convolvulus jnalabaricus. Moon Cat. 13 (.? L.). B. Roxbwghii, Chois., 

 Thw. Enum. 213. C. P. 2853. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 223. Wight, Ic. t. 1370. 



Stems stout, twining, cylindrical, densely tomentose ; 1. 

 '^rge, 3-5 in., cordate-ovate with rounded lobes, acuminate, 

 •i^btuse, apiculate, entire, finely pubescent above, densely 



