96. CONVOLVULACE^. [4. Rive a. 



hairy. Flowers small, sessile, numerous, white. Sepals "12". Corolla 

 •17", lobes reflexed, hairy and bearded. Ovary pubescent at tip. 

 Capsule 4-seeded. 



Orissa, near the Chilka Lake, Frain's Collector ! Fl. r.s. 



It looks at tirst sight very unlike one of the Convolvulacece. Flowers small, 

 numerous, clustered at the ends of the branches, 'lo-"2" diam. According to Wight 

 it grows on salt, and generall.y flowers during the hot season when the ground 

 about it begins to crack. 



3. EYOLYULUS, L. 



Small prostrate herbs (in our area), sometimes erect or shrubby. 

 Leaves small entire. Flowers small, axillary, single or in a few-fld. 

 inflorescence. Sepals subequal. Corolla limb 5-plaited, subentire. 

 Filaments filiform. Ovary 2-1-celled, styles 2, each cleft into two 

 linear or svibclavate stigmas. Fruit a 4-2-valved capsule. Seeds 

 glabrous, cotyledons doubly folded, radicle incumbent. 



1. E. alsinoides, L. 



A charming little plant when in flower, reminding one of an English 

 Speedwell. Branches numerous prostrate 4-15" long, thinly or densely 

 silky. Leaves from linear to usually broadly elliptic •25-*5", rarely 

 1", densely appressed hairy or silky beneath. Flowers bright blue 

 •25-"3" diam., 1-3 terminating slender peduncles which are longer than 

 the leaves, and with 2-3 subulate bracts at the ends. Pedicels usually 

 short or when solitary fls. subsessile on the peduncle. Sepals small 

 lanceolate hairy. Corolla rarely Avhite, subrotate, "2" long. Capsule 

 •12-14" diam., thin, 2-4-valved. 



In all districts, usually in open pasture land, dry banks, etc. FL, Fr. July-Dec. 



4. RIYEA, Choisy. 

 Erect or twining shrubs with cordate leaves and large flowers mostly 

 in axillary few-fld. cymes and often supported by large bi-acts at their 

 base. Sepals eqvial short. Corolla broadly tubular, salver-shaped, 

 or funnel-shaped, scarcely lobed. Stamens inclvided with short fila- 

 ments sometimes bearded at base. Disc annular. Ovary 4-celled, 

 style slender, stigmas linear or oblong. Fruit baccate or indehiscent 

 and nearly dry, pericarp ultimately irregularly breaking up. 



Stout erect (or ultimately scandent). Sepals lanceolate, 



■5-'7" 1. ornata. 



Always scandent, often slender. Sepals ovate, "3" . . .2. hypocrateriformis. 



1. R. ornata, Choisy, var. Griffithii, Clarlc. 



A handsome erect shrub or iindershrub, 3-5 ft. high, sometimes 

 said to be scandent though I have not seen it so. Leaves orbicular- 

 cordate, or somewhat reniform, 3-5" diam., white-silky beneath. 

 Peduncles 3-7-fld. Sepals lanceolate or elliptic-oblong acute, "S-'TS" 

 long. Corolla-tube 2" and limb 2" or more across. Capsule "7" diam. 

 yellow-brown usually breaking transversely across, seeds in a white 

 pith. 



N. Champaran, frequent ! Fl. r.s. Fr. Dec-Jan. Probably also Purneah. 



I have kept no specimens, but the Champaran plant is the same as the erect 

 shrub common in the savannah tracts of the Duars and sent to Sir D. Brandis, who 



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