96. CONVOLVULACE.^. [5. Arqyreia. 



Wild in Orissa. Puri district ! Elsewhere only cultivated. Fl. r.s, and c.s. Fr. 

 Jan.-April. Leaves renewed in April. 



L. broadly ovate cordate with about 1-1 strono- sec. n., of which some 6 are close 

 to the base each side, impressed above, apex rounded or acute with excurrent mid- 

 rib. Petiole 3-9". always shorter than the blade. Peduncles 5-9", stout, white 

 tomentose. Flowers 2-3" long, corolla tnbular-funu el- shaped, with the longitudinal 

 lanceolate bands silky. Outer bracts acuminate. 



2. A. cymosa, Wight. 



A somewhat far-spreading climber with sub-strigosely hairy stems, 

 orbicular cordate acvite or very shortly cuspidate leaves 3-5", softly 

 appressed-hairy beneath and Avith shorter hairs above. Flowers 

 white and rose-coloured in long-peduncled capitate, 2-3-chotomous 

 cymes 1-2" diam. Corolla 2-2-5" tubular-funnel-shaped. Berry '75". 



Puri jungles, common ! Fl. Nov.-Dec. Fr. Feb. 



L. with 7-8 sec. n. of which 2-3 near the base. Petiole l"5-2"5". Cymes scented on 

 peduncles 3-6" or rarely 8" loug, pubescent. Bracts persistent, tomentose-hairy -J." 

 orbicular-cuspidate foliaceous or sometimes lower larger and just like small leaves. 

 Fls. subsessile. sepals purplish, outer like the bracts "S-'G" with very broad base, 

 inner two narrow oblong. Corolla densely silky on the bands. 



3. A. Roxburghii, Chois. 



A rather robust t^v iner hirsute with spreading and reflexed hairs 

 on the stem, broadly cordate leaves hairy with appressed fulvous 

 hairs beneath and with shorter hairs above, larger about 6 x 5"5" Avith 

 shortly suddenly acuminate apex. Flowers funnel-shaped 2-2'5'' long 

 in very short and few-flowered cymes -75-2" long only (withoiit the 

 flowers) incKiding the peduncles. Fruits orange fleshy depressed- 

 globose •75-l'l" diam. Fj-uiting sepals slightly fleshy broadly ovate 

 and only •25-"4" long in quite ripe fruits owing to the outer non- fleshy 

 portions drying off. 



Northern area only. Purneah, common ! Fl. Aug. -Sept. Fr. Nov.-Dec. 



Sec. n. about 10 of which 3-4 close to base. Petiole 15-i". The very short 

 peduncles are very constant in our area though more eastern examples have them 

 longer. Bracts sub-persistent '5" narrow elliptic densely strigosely hairy, some 

 foliaceous 1 "2-1 "5" elliptic and acuminate. Flowers sometimes sub-solitarj^ Sepals 

 •.3-'5". Corolla with a few adpressed hairs on the lanceolate bands. Seeds 1-A, 

 •.3-*35'' oblong rounded scarcely compressed on two inner faces even in 4-seeded 

 fruits. 



4. A. Daltoni, Clarice. 



A large handsome climber with strigosely-hairy or -pubescent 

 stems, large narrowly ovate or ovate-oblong, shallowly cordate-based 

 leaves reaching 8'5-9" by 4~h" with gradually tapering apex, thinly 

 strigose with pulvous hairs beneath. Flowers bright red-purple 2"5" 

 diam. with tube 15" long in 3-7-fld. cymes with persistent bracts, 

 on stout peduncles 1-5" long. 



Mountains in Singbhum ! Angul ! Fl. Sept.-Oct. Fr. Jan. -Feb. 



Base of leaves sometimes rounded and not cordate, sec. n. 6-7 only, petiole 1-2". 

 Cymes rather dense with foliaceous spathulate or linear-oblanceolate bracts -o-'S" 

 long, very persistent (even after the fruit has fallen). Pedicels short. Sepals 

 ■o-"6" outer oblong, inner smaller lanceolate silky. Corolla tube with long soft 

 hairs outside. Berry "7" diam. 



5. A. tilisefolia, WigM. Syn. Convolvulus gangeticus, Boxh. ; Sticto- 



cardia tilisefolia, Hallier. 

 A dense twining shrub with large suborbicular or ovate deeply 



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