198 The Floivering Plants of Western India. 



D.). A tall rough plant, leaves lanceolate acute, flowers in com- 

 pound racemes small, blue with white eye, calyx lobes nearly as long 

 as the corolla. Lichardi. Waranda Ghaut. Konkan, Khandalla, 

 &c. (D. and (?.). *C. denticulatum (C. glochidiatum, D.). Stem softly 

 hairy, tubercled, branches rather angular, leaves ovate, lanceolate, 

 fruit with a hairy ring surmounted by long teeth with recurved 

 hooks. Parr Ghaut (D.). H. has doubtfully C, Ritchiei, found at Bel- 

 gaum by Dr. Ritchie, closely resembling this. This genus has, in 

 English as in Latin, the name of Hound's tongue, from the long leaves 

 resembing (more or less) the tongue of a dog. 



The various Forget-me-nots (Myosotis} of English river banks and 

 gardens belong to this tribe ; also the Comfreys, of which Sympliytum 

 asperrimum, prickly comfrey, has been of late years cultivated in W. 

 Indian for fodder. 



ORDER 81. CONVOLVTJLACEJE. The Convolvulus family. 



Herbs or shrubs, generally twining, leaves alternate without 

 stipules, flowers regular, generally showy with bracts ; calyx 

 persistent of 5 lobes, which are generally imbricated, and often 

 distinctly unequal ; corolla generally bell-shaped or funnel- 

 shaped, often pleated ; stamens, 5 on the corolla tube, 2 often 

 shorter than the other 3 ; anthers oblong, ovary superior, 

 styles one or two, stigma 2-lobed or branched, fruit not more 

 than 4-seeded. 



This is a tropical order of plants of singular beauty ; and I think 

 it a matter of congratulation thao our Presidency has so great a 

 number of its species : for it is not one of the large orders, though 

 so well known. Most of those species, which cannot properly be 

 called beautiful, have still "A sweet attractive kind of grace;" 

 and members of this family can scarcely be mistaken for any 

 other. 



Note. 27". does not mention among the characteristics of the order 

 either the imbricated calyx or the unequal stamens, but both are 

 certainly found in the majority of the species here given. 



Note. The great majority of the large and handsome species are 

 found in genera Nos. 1, 2, and 4. Cuscuta differs very much from the 

 other genera given. 



(a) Large climbers (except Argyreia cuneata), often 

 shrubby ; fruit indehiscent. 



1. BIVEA. Flowers large white, long-tubed, about 3 together, 

 stamens included, stigmas 2, linear oblong, fruit roundish. 



2. ARGYREIA. Generally covered with silky hairs, flowers 

 generally rose-coloured or purple, corolla with very short 

 lobes, stamens included, style long, stigmas 2, round. 



