206 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



6. ETOLVULUS. 



E. alsinoides (E. hirsutus, D.). A small hairy prostrate plant 

 with several stems from the root, leaves very small, ovate- 

 pointed, flowers very small, long peduncled axillary, of a beautiful 

 bright blue, with white throat and anthers, sometimes violet 

 or white, bracts about half-way up the peduncle. Shankveli. 



Growing in grass, common. Throughout India, very common, and 

 throughout the world in and near the tropics (#.). 



" The beautiful Evolvulus, with its profusion of blue flowers, that 

 reminds one of the English forget-me-not." Tennent. 



7. PORANA. 



* P. maldbarica (P. racemosa, D.) Leaves cordate acute, 

 long-petioled, flowers small, funnel-shaped, pure white, in 

 panicles, with large cordate bracts at the forks. 



The Ghauts, common (D.). Matheran and Mahableshwar. 



Mr. Birdwood calls this the snow-creeper, but the plant which 

 bears this name in the Himalayas (P. racemosa) must by the descrip- 

 tion be much more beautiful. 



8. CRESSA. 



C. cretica. A small shrubby unattractive plant, prostrate 

 and spreading, all covered with white hairs, leaves oval-pointed, 

 flowers solitary or in terminal heads very small, white or pink- 

 ish, the corolla lobes with long tips, seeds smooth. Khardi, 

 chdwel. 



Rice-fields in the cold weather. Konkan. In the bed of the Mula 

 river, near Kirkee. Woodrow. 



Throughout India, not common (#.). 



Hewittia, a hairy twiner, sepals enlarged in fruit, corolla bell- 

 shaped, stigma deeply 2-lobed. * H. Ucoior (Palmia 6. D.), leaves 

 ovate cordate, angular or lobed, flowers an inch long, generally soli- 

 tary, yellow with purple base, bracts on the peduncle leafy, capsule 

 round, hairy. The Konkans ; near Penn (D.). 



Breweria, corolla wide-tubed, styles 2, united below. B. cordata 

 (. Roxburghii, D.). A strong twiner, covered with rusty hairs, 

 leaves ovate cordate, flowers middle-sized, white, capsule larger than 

 the calyx, thick, seeds brown, angular. Vingorla. 



(c.) 9. CUSCUTA. Dodder. 



C. reflexa. Stems yellow, succulent, flowers very small, 

 white in lax racemes, bracts small and fleshy, styles with 2 long 

 stigmas. Akaspawan, dmarvel. 



