224 ci. CONVOLVULACBJB. (C. B. Clarke.) [Breweria. 



A powerful twiner ; branches villous. Leaves 4 by 2| in., those on the flowering 

 branchlets ovate-cordate; petiole 1^- in. Peduncles about as long as the petioles, 

 2-5-fld. ; bracts |- in., oblong; cymes subcapitate, rusty- villous. Sepals i- in.) 

 ovate-oblong, subacute, subequal. Corolla H in., wide-funnel-shaped, hairy without ; 

 limb subentire. Style f in., united for | in. Capsule \ in., subglobose, glabrous, 

 splitting into numerous vertical segments ; sepals in fruit somewhat enlarged, ovate, 

 hardly so long as the capsule. Seeds about as broad as long, nearly glabrous. 



2. B. eleg-ans, Chois. Convolv. Or. 112, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 439; 

 fulvous-villous, leaves elliptic those of the flowering branches oblong or sub- 

 linear none cordate. Convolvulus elegans, Wall. Cat. 1392. 



BBITISH BURMA ; Prome, Wallich. 



Very near B. cordata, differing chiefly in the leaves. Leaves of the flowering 

 shoots (for 18 in. near their tops) l by ^ in., narrow-oblong, mucronate; lower 

 leaves 3 by 1 in., obtuse, almost rounded at both ends. Pedicels -| in., rather 

 longer than in B. Eoxburghii. Corolla as of B. Eoxburghii but the tube appears 

 more cylindric, less funnel-shaped. Capsule not seen. Material rather scanty for the 

 support of so critical a species. 



** Small, erect\ leaves small ; flowers small, axillary, 1-3 together white or 

 pinkish ; styles distinct very nearly to the base. 



3. B. evolvuloides, Chois, Convolv. Or. 112, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 

 439 ; leaves 3 in. oblong or elliptic nearly glabrous, pedicels ^^ in., capsule 

 ^-^ in. Seddera evolvuloides, Wight Ic. t. 1369. E volvulus alsinoides, Wall. 

 Cat. 1317, by admixture. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Heyne ; near Tuticorin, Wight. 



A very branched, rigid, harsh, small shrub ; with a few scattered strigose hairs. 

 Sepals ^ in., oblong, nearly glabrous, suberect both in flower and fruit. Corolla 5- in. 

 Capsule subglobose, shortly pointed, glabrous tipped with a tuft of hairs 4-valved. 

 Seeds glabrous. 



4. B. latifolia, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 877 ; leaves |-| in. elliptic densely 

 silky, flowers sessile, capsule | in. Seddera latifolia, Hochst. fy Steud. in Flora, 

 1844, Beibl. 8, t. 5, fig. B.C. ; Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iv. 114. Cressa latifolia, T. And. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 25, excluding 

 the Deccan synonyms. " 



PUNJAB and SCINDE ; Vicary, Stocks, &c. DISTEIB. W. Tropical Asia, E. Tropical 

 Africa. 



Dr. T. Anderson thought this plant not specifically separated from the Deccan 

 B. evolvuloides by its hairiness and sessile flowers ; but the capsule is twice as large, 

 ovoid, and the seeds ovoid-oblong, twice as long as broad. Sepals acuminate, densely 

 silky. 



13. NEUROFELTIS, Wall. 



A large scandent shrub ; shoots rufous-villous or tonientose. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, coriaceous, ovate or oblong. Racemes axillary, or subpanicled towards 

 the ends of the branches ; flowers numerous, small, pedicelled ; bract under the 

 calyx inconspicuous in flower, in fruit enlarged 1 in. or more diam. Sepals 

 suborbicular, in fruit hardly enlarged. Corolla wide-cam panulate, deeply lobed, 

 lobes induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens exserted or included, filaments 

 filiform. Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, separate from the 

 base, shortly linear, stigmas subcapitate or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule globose, 

 4-valved, 1-seeded, sessile in the middle of the flat bract, Seed globose, 

 glabrous, albuminous; cotyledons plaited. Species 2, the following and an 

 African. 



