Neuropeltis.~] ci. CONVOLVULACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 225 



1. N. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 1322, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind, ed. Carey 8? 



Watt. ii. 44 ; leaves elliptic or oblong acute or shortly acuminate, racemes 1-6 

 in. rusty-villous or tomentose dense. Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 96 ; Chois. Convolv 



Or. 109, t. 2, fig. 12, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 437 ; Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 291 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 222. N. ovata. Wall. Cat. 1323 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. lio! 

 t. 2, fig. 13, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 437. N. bracteata and intermedia, Grift 

 Notul. iv. 285. 



MALAY PENINSULA, from Mergui southwards; Wallich, Griffith, Maingay, &c. 

 MALABAR PLAINS, near Tambacherry Ghat, Beddome. DISTBIB. Borneo. 



Leaves 5 by 2 in., base obtuse or rhomboid, when young more or less rusty- 

 villous, sometimes on both surfaces, adult glabrous or nearly so, feather-nerved ; 

 petiole -1 in. Racemes subsessile, i.e. flowerbearing nearly to the base ; pedicels in 

 flower in.*; bract minute. Sepals \ in. Corolla ^-^ in., widely campanulate, 

 rufous- villous without. Ovary hairy. Bract in fruit 1-lf in. diam., orbicular, base 

 rounded or cordate, scariose, nerved. Capsule in., ovoid, glabrescent. 



14. CRESSA. 



A very small shrub, erect or diffuse, grey-pubescent. Leaves small, sessile, 

 elliptic, acute. Flowers small, sessile in the upper axils, often in terminal 

 clusters or spikes. Sepals equal, not enlarged in fruit. Corolla small, funnel- 

 shaped, white or rose ; lobes 5, subimbricated (not plaited) in bud. Stamens 

 exserted, filaments filiform. Ovary sub-2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 2, distinct, 

 linear, stigmas capitate. Capsule 2-4-valved, usually 1-seeded. Seed glabrous ; 

 cotyledons linear, plicate. 



1. C. cretica, Linn. ; Lamk. III. t. 183 ; Sibth. Fl. Qrcec. t. 256 ; Chois. 

 in DC. Prodr. ix. 440; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 162; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 

 114. C. indica, Retz. Obs. iv. 24 ; Roxb. Cat. PL (1813), and Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey $ Wall. ii. 72 ; Wall. Cat. 2260 ; Chois. Convolv. Or. 113. 0. australis, 

 Br. Prodr. 490. 



Throughout INDIA from the Punjab and Calcutta to CEYLON, not common. 

 DISTRIB. All warm regions. 



Stem 6-18 in. Leaves \-% in. Sepals | in. Corolla % in. ; lobes reflexed. 

 Capsule in. The Indian plant differs from the common form of C. cretica in having 

 4 (not 1) seeds, according to Eetz and Koxburgh. 



15. CUSCUTA, Linn. 



Leafless twining parasites, yellow or reddish not green. Floivers small, 

 white or rose, fascicled, sessile or shortly pedicelled ; bracts or small. Sepals 

 5-4, subequal, distinct or shortly connate. Corotta ovoid or campanulate; 

 lobes 5-4, short, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5-4, inserted near the throat of 

 the corolla-tube, filaments short linear ; anthers oblong, shortly exsert ; scales 

 near the base of the filaments or at the base of the corolla, often fimbriate, 

 rarely 0. Ovary completely or incompletely 2-celled, 4-ovuled ; styles 1 or 2, 

 stigmas 2. Capsule globose or ovoid, dry or succulent, circumsciss or irregularly 

 breaking up, 4^2-seeded. Seeds glabrous, albumen fleshy; embryo slender, 

 twisted, cotyledons or obscure. Species 80, in warm and temperate 

 regions. 



STJBGENUS 1. HXonog>ynella. Ovary, and young fruit, narrowed up- 

 wards into a single short style with 2 long stigmas. 



1. C. reflexa, Roxb. Cor. PI. ii. 3, t. 104, and Fl. Ind. i. 446, and ed. 

 Carey $ Wall. i. 466 ; flowers subracemose, bracts small fleshy subquadrate, 

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