318 CONVOLVULACEAE. [ Breweria. 
Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p. 364. rar ovalifolius, Hook, & Arn. in Bot. 
Beech. — Ipomoea ovalifolia, var. 8 & ~, Choisy, in DC. Prod. as to the 
Common on the plains and rocky slopes of the lower regions. In the Logie 
“a the sea the leaves are apt to become fleshy. Dr. Pickering reported the r 
tuberous eh edible, while in Para’ s dictionary it is stated to be cathartic. Nat, na 
«Pauohiiaka 
B var. fal entosa. — The whole plant, including the inflorescence, clothed 
with a thick and soft fulvous tomentum. Leaves thick fleshy. Peduncles 
longer than the leaves. Calyx and corolla larger than in a. 
Southern shore of Molokai! 
4. BREWERIA, R. Br 
Sepals 5. Corolla tubular-campanulate, the limb entire or nearly 80, 
plaited but not contorted in the bud. Stamens DBO with slender 
filaments and ovoid or oblong anthers. Ovary 2-celled, each cell with 
prostrate herbs or undershrubs, sometimes climbing, wk entire leaves. 
Flowers white, yellow or red, axillary or in a leafy thyrsus. 
enus of about 20 species spread over the warmer parts ot all continents. — 
n. 76. The 
& Hook. Ge Ii, $76. — aut the Genera Plant. keep separate the gen 
Bonamia, Thouars, founded on a single species fr sear, on th that 
yea which again is deeply 5-fid. Gray pai united both genera pom the older nam 
mia. The mucilaginous —_ which covers the entire seed in our species, does 0 not 
sane to be of the nature o arillus 
1, B. Menziesii, Benth. d Hook. Gen. Plant. I, 876. — Woody, with 
far spreading straggling branches, twining at the ends, tomentose with 
fulvous hair, as are the underside of the leaves and the inflorescence. 
Leaves broad-oblong, 2—3' « 1— —2', on petioles of t/2—1', obtuse, 
mucronate, often emarginate, entire, rounded at the base, soft coriaceous. 
Flowers single (rarely two) on peduncles of —9", which are articulate 
above their bases, the linear bractlets 2, Sepals coriaceous, silky- 
mentose, 4—5" long , Ovate, obtuse, the inner ones a little shorter. 
Corolla broad funnel -shaped, 8—10", very sso cut into 5 broad truncate 
apiculate lobes, of thick texture, yellowish - bro to greenish, silky eX 
ternally, except in the infoldings, glabrous ‘adhe ghee inserted near 
the base, more than half the length of the corolla, the filaments naked, 
not dilated, the short oblong acute anthers dorsally affixed. Styles a8 
long as the corolla, separate to near the base. Capsule ovoid, peaked, 
thick chartaceous, indehiscent, the dissepiment wanting in the middle. 
y and completely covered with a mucilaginous episperm which 
appears black when dry. Embryo surrounded by some mucilaginous 
