Parana.'] ci. CONVOLVULACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 223 



linear. Sepals in flower i in., linear-oblong, puberulous. Corolla i-4 in., lobed 

 nearly half-way, white. Style linear; stigmas 2, short, oblong. Capsule apiculate, 

 glabrous ; fruiting sepals oblong-spathulate, with 3-5 strong longitudinal nerves. 

 The " Snow-creeper " of the English, one of the most beautiful of Indian plants, the 

 masses of dazzling white flowers resembling snow-patches in the jungle. It is 

 doubtful whether this plant is found wild in the Deccan ; Wight's figure represents 

 it, but the fruit in his herbarium was sent him from N. India. There is no example 

 from the Deccan, all Dalzell's belong to the next species. 



7. P. malabarica, Clarke ; nearly glabrous, leaves ovate deeply cordate 

 acute, racemes compound dichotomous, bracts at the forks large cordate per- 

 sistent, capsule ^ in. obovoid, fruit-sepals equal attaining 1 by in. elliptic. P, 

 racemosa, Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162. Porana n. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H. F. 

 $ T. 



WEST DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bombay, Dalzell ; Malabar and Concan, Stocks, Law 

 Canara and Mysore, Law, &c. 



Closely allied to P. racemosa. Fruiting -sepals sometimes only \ by \ in., but 

 always differing widely from the much smaller narrow one of P. racemosa. 



8. P. truncata, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Sot. 1873, 136 ; nearly glabrous, 

 leaves ovate deeply cordate acute, racemes compound dichotomous, bracts at 

 the forks large cordate persistent, capsule \ in. obconoid truncate, fruiting 

 sepals equal by ^ in. 



KHASIA MTS., Numklow and Mairung, alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 

 5876), &c. 



Resembles P. racemosa, but is stouter and is intermediate between that species 

 and T. malabarica. Kurz attempted to distinguish this by the "depressed-concave" 

 summit of the capsule ; but the fact is that the fresh capsule usually has a greatly 

 depressed-conical apiculate summit, which in dried specimens often becomes concave. 

 Possibly P. racemosa, P. malabarica, and P. truncata, are varieties of one ; but the 

 characters of the capsule and fruit-sepals seem' well-marked, and the material is 

 sufficient. 



12. BREWERIA, R. Br. 



Herbs or undershrubs, large and twining, or small and erect. Leaves un- 

 divided. Flowers in axillary peduncled heads or terminal close panicles, or 1-3 

 together, sessile and axillary ; bracts small. Sepals equal or unequal, in fruit 

 scarcely altered (in non-Indian species much enlarged). Corolla campanulate or 

 funnel-shaped, limb 5-plaited. Stamens included ; filaments filiform, bases often 

 dilated. Ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, nearly distinct from the base or 

 united half their length, stigmas capitate. Capsule globose or ovoid, normally 

 4-seeded. Species 23, in the tropics of both hemispheres, Australia and N. 

 America. 



* Twiners ; flowers medium-large yellowish in peduncled cymes ; styles united 

 about half their length. 



1. B. cor data, Blume Bijd. 722; rusty-villous, leaves ovate-cordate 

 acute. CJiois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 438. B. Roxburghii, Chois. Convolv. Or. Ill, 

 and in DC. Prodr. ix. 438 ; Wight Ic. t. 1370 ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162. 

 Convolvulus seniidigynus, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 13, and Fl. Ind. i. 468, and ed. 

 Carey $ Wall. ii. 47 ; Wall. Cat. 1405. 



WEST DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan Ghauts southwards ; EAST BENGAL, 

 and the MALAY PENINSULA, from Silhet to Malacca, frequent. CEYLON, frequent. 

 DISTRIB. Malaya. 



