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pedicel, linear-lanceolate. Sepals 5, acute, the 3 outer larger, ovate, 

 enlarged in fruit, the 2 inner narrowly lanceolate. Corolla campanu- 

 late, yellow or white, with a purple eye ; limb plicate. Stamens 5, 

 included ; filaments linear, dilated at the base. Ovary hirsute, 1 (or 

 imperfectly 2) -celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma of 2 ovate- 

 oblong lobes. Capsules globose, 4-vaIved, 1-celled. Seeds normally 4, 

 black, glabrous. — Distrib. India, Malaya, Tropical Africa ; species 

 about 5. 



1. Hewittia bicolor, Wight 4' -^m. in Madras Journ. Lit. Sf Sc. 

 V. 5 (1837) p. 22. Stems long, twining or prostrate, pubescent or 

 glabrous. Leaves numerous, rather variable, 2-4 in. long, ovate, some- 

 times angular or somewhat palmately lobed, acute or obtuse, usually 

 cordate at the base, more or less softly pubescent on both sides ; petioles 

 •|-1-|- in. long, pubescent. Flowers pale-yellow, with a purple eye, 

 solitary, a few together on the top of a peduncle |— 5 in. long ; pedicels 

 short ; bracts on the pedicel a little below the calyx ^ in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, herbaceous, hairy. Calyx in flower rather more than |- in. 

 long, the 3 outer sepals broadly ovate, acute, the 2 inner lanceolate, 

 all softly pubescent and ciliate. Corolla 1 in. long with pubescent 

 bands outside. Ovary clothed with long silky erect hairs ; style long, 

 filiform, hairy. Capsules | in. in diam., subglobose, hairy, surrounded 

 by the moderately enlarged sepals. Seeds glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 216; AVight, Icon. t. 835 (by misprint Heivetia) • Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. 226 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 172 ; Peter, 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v. 4, 3 A, p. 25, fig. 12, B. Convolvulus 

 hicolor, Bot. Mag. v. 48, t. 2205. Shutereia bicolor, Choisy, in Mem. 

 Soc. Phys. Genev. v. 6 (1834) p. 486 ; Grah. Cat. p. 133. Palmia 

 bicolor, Endl. ex Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl. p. 163. — Flowers : Nov. 



In the Southern districts of the Presidency, not common. Konkan: Stocl:sl, 

 Nimmo ex Graham ; near Pen, Balzell S; Gibson ; SavantyAdi, Woodrow ! Marmagao, 

 Woodrow ! — Distkib. India (S.E. and W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malaya, Tropical 

 Africa. 



9. ANISEIA, Choisy. 



Twining or prostrate herbs. Leaves ovate or oblong, often mucronu- 

 late. Flowers axillary, solitaiy, or in few-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, 

 herbaceous, acuminate, the outer larger decurrent on the pedicel, 

 slightly enlarged in fruit, the inner lanceolate, not enlarged in fruit. 

 Corolla campanulate or infundibuliform ; limb subentire. Stamens 5, 

 included ; filaments filiform. Ovary 2-celled, glabrous ; ovules 4 ; style 

 fihform ; stigma 2-globose. Capsule 2-celled, 4-valved. Seeds 4. — 

 DiSTBiB. Tropical countries pretty widely distributed ; species about 15. 



1. Aniseia unifloraj Choisi/, C'onvolv. Orient, in Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 Genev. y. 6 (1834) p. 483, t. 2, fig. 9. — Stems creeping or twining, 

 slender, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 1^-3 by -1—1 in., oblong, entire, 

 obtuse or emarginate, mucronate, glabrous above, glabrous or more or 

 less pubescent beneath, base acute ; petioles ^-f in. long. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, with 2 small persistent bracts at the top, from which 

 issues the slender solitary pedicel which is usually shorter than the 

 peduncle. Sepals in flower i-| in. long, the outer elliptic, decurrent on 

 the pedicel, ultimately slightly enlarged in fruit, the inner lanceolate. 



