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Flowers small, white or bluish, axillary, solitary or in few-flowered 

 pedunculate cymes. Sepals 5, subequal, not enlarged in fruit. Corolla 

 infuudibuliform or subrotate ; limb plicate, subeutire. Stamens 5, 

 included or exserted ; filaments slender ; anthers ovate or oblong. 

 Ovary 2 (rarely 1) -celled; ovules 4; styles 2, distinct from the base, 

 each cleft into 2 linear or subclavate stigmas. Capsule •1-2-valved. 

 Seeds 4 or 2 (rarely solitary) ; cotyledons twice folded ; radicle terete, 

 much incurved. — Distbib. Species about 80, in most warm climates, 

 numerous in Brazil. 



1. Evolvulus alsinoides, Linn. Sjj. PL ed. 2 (1762) p. 392. A 

 perennial herb with a small woody branched rootstock ; stems numerous, 

 often more than 1 ft. long, prostrate, spreading, slender, wiry, usually 

 clothed with long spreading hairs, but sometimes quite glabrous. Leaves 

 numerous, ^| by ^l in., elliptic-oblong, obtuse, strongly apiculate, 

 nsually acute at the base, densely clothed with appressed silky hairs ; 

 petioles very shoi't, sometimes almost 0. Flowers light-blue, solitary, or 

 sometimes 2 from a pair of lanceolate bracts on the peduncle ; peduncles 

 very long, filiform, axillary ; pedicels filiform. Calyx densely silky ; 

 sepals ^ in. long, lanceolate, very acute. Corolla -^ in. long. Capsules 

 ^-^ in. in diam., globose, thin, 4-valved. Seeds usually 4, glabrous. 

 El. B. I. V. 4, p. 220 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 227 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 305 ; AYoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 172 ; 

 Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 98. Evolvulus JiirsuiHS, Lamk. Encyc.- Method. 

 V. 3, p. 538 ; Grab. Cat. p. 133 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 162. — Elowers : July- 

 Nov. Verx. Vishnukrcinta ; ShankaveU. 



Common in grassy places throughout the Presidency, Dal-cU cf- Gibsoii. Konkan : 

 Bombay, Lambert ! Deccan : cominou during the rains in the Decean plains, Graham ; 

 Poona, Cooke\ Gujarat: Baroda, Kanitkarl Sind: Bhola Puranl — Distrib. 

 Tropical and subtropical countries. Used in Ceylon as a bitter tonic and febrifuge 

 {Trimen). 



7. BREWERIA, E. Br. 



Herbs or undershrubs large and twining or small and erect. Leaves 

 entire. Flowers in axillary pedunculate heads or terminal close panicles, 

 or 1-3 together, sessile and axillary. Sepals equal or unequal, in the 

 Indian species scarcely enlarged in fruit. Corolla eampanulate or in- 

 fuudibuliform ; limb 5-plaited or very shortly and broadly lobed. 

 Stamens included ; filaments filiform, often dilated at the base. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform, equally or unequally 2-fid, or styles 

 2 free from the base ; stigmas capitate. Capsule globose or ovoid, 

 4-valved, membranous or coriaceous. Seeds normally 4, glabrous or 

 pilose. — Distrib. Tropics of both hemispheres, Australia, N. America; 

 species 25. 



This genus includes the genus Seddem, Hoclist. 



Kote. — Asa Gray (Proc. Am. Acad. v. 5 [1862] p. 337) suggested the reduction of 

 the genus to Bonamia, Thenars, a suggestion which Bentham & Hooker (Gen. PL 

 v. 2, p. 877) do not acceiDt. The genus Bonamia, of which there are only 2 species, 

 was founded by Du Petit-Thouars (Hist. Veg. Isl. Aust. Afr. [1805] p. 17 & p. 32, 

 t. 8). and is distinguished from the genus Brcweria by its exserted stamens and deeply 

 lobed corolla. The ' Index Kewensis,' both in its original first volume (1895) and in 

 its first supplement (1902), maintains Breweria as a separate genus, as does Prof. Peter, 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 4, 3 A, pp. 14 & 16. There does not seem to be 



