226 LXXXVIII. CON VOLT ULACE.'E. 



covered when young with reddish-brown tomentum. Leaves 3-5 by 1^- 

 2-1- in., elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, suddenly acuminate, glabrous or 

 nearly so, base acute ; main nerves arcuate, 4-6 pairs ; petioles -i— i in. 

 long. Flowers numerous, yellow, in terminal (less commouly axillary) 

 panicles often reaching 6 or 7 in. long, densely clothed with reddish- 

 brown tomentum ; buds globose ; pedicels i- ^ in. long. Calyx divided 

 to the base, covered outside with dense reddish-brown, more or leas 

 stellate pubescence ; sepals ^ in. long, orbicular, strongly ciliate. Corolla 

 ■^ in. long, i in. or more across when expanded ; tube -g^ in. long, broadly 

 infundibuliform ; lobes 5, fleshy or leathery, each deeply divided at the 

 apex into 2 obtuse lobules, hairy on the back below the division wuth 

 reddish-brown hairs, the margins plaited and slightly sinuate. Stamens 

 inserted near the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, broad at the 

 base, flattened ; anthers with a long curved apiculation. Berry about 1 in. 

 long, ellipsoid, supported on the persistent sepals, black and pulpy when 

 ripe. ri.B. L v, 4, p. 180 ; Grab. Cat. p. 137 ; Dalz, & Gibs. p. 169 ; 

 Wight, in. t. ]80; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 205; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 247 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 3, p. 268.— Flowers : Apr. 



KoNKAN : Nimmo ex Graham, Dalzell cf Gibson. — Distrib. Tliroughout India ; 

 Cejlon, the Nicobars. 



Var. Wightiana, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 181. 

 Leaves much reticulately veined beneath. Flowers white, fragrant. 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 247; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 170. Erycihe Wightiana (sp.), Grab. Cat. Bo. PI. (1839) 

 p. 137 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 170.— Flowers : Nov. 



More common than the type E. paniculata in the Bombay Presiclenoy. Dalzell 

 without locality in Herb. Kew. S. M. Couktry : Eamghiit, Gibson, Ritchie, 1907 ! ; 

 Oastlerock, Woodrow. 



3. PORANA, Burm. 



Large climbers. Leaves petiolate, ovate, entire. Flowers white, 

 blue or purple, in cymes which are often extensively paniculate ; bracts 

 persistent ; bracteoles subulate, or 0. Sepals 5, small and narrow in 

 flower, in fruit the 3 outer or all much enlarged, membranous, spreading, 

 nerved. Corolla campanulate or infundibuliform, usually small with a 

 wide or narrow mouth ; limb 5-plaitcd, subentire or lobed. Stamens 5, 

 subincluded ; filaments filiform or linear. Ovary 1- or 2-celled ; ovules 

 2 or 4 ; style long or short, entire or 2-fid with a single 2-lobed or with 

 2 capitate stigmas. Capsule globose, oblong or obconic, membranous, 

 indehiscent or 2-valved, 1-seeded. Seed glabrous ; cotyledons plicate. — 

 DiSTKiB. East Indies, Malay Archipelago, and Australia; species 

 about 10. 



1. Porana malabarica, C. B. Clarl-e, in J fool. /'. FL B. I. v, 4 



(1883) p. 223. An extensive climber; stems and branches slender, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 2^-5 by 1^-4| in., ovate, deeply cordate, 

 acuminate, very acute, thin, with a few scattered hairs above, glabrous 

 or nearly so and reticulately veined beneath ; petioles -^-3 iu. long, 

 slender, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers white, in lax racemes or 

 panicles ; bracts at the forks large, leafy, cordate, persistent, those 

 of the pedicels smaller upwards, the uppermost linear ; pedicels slender, 

 ^-\ in. long. Sepals ^-\ in. long, more or less pubescent, narrowly 



