.POBANA.] CONVOLVULACE&. 103 



2. P. racemosa t Roxb. Hort. Peng. 13 ;'Fl. Ind. i, 466 ; Don Prod. 98 ; 

 Eoyle III, 307 ; F. B. I. iv, 222 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 507 ; Collett 

 Fl.'Siml. 339; Brandis Ind. Trees 487. (Snow-Creeper.) 



A climbing shrub, puberulous or nearly glabrous. Leaves petioled, 2-3 

 in. long, ovate, acute, deeply cordate at the base- Flowers small, white, 

 pedicelled, arranged in lax 2-chotomous racemes ; bracts at the forks 

 amplexicaul, leaflike, persistent and scariose in fruit, those on the 

 pedicels linear. Sepals (in flower) in. long, linear-oblong, puberu- 

 lous, all five enlarging in fruit, oblong, spathulate, scariose and 

 strongly nerved. Corolla sub-campanulate, - in. long, lobed nearly 

 half-way down, lobes oblong. Style linear; stigmas short, oblong. 

 Capsule ^ inch long, ellipsoid, apiculate, membranous, glabrous. 



Dehra Dun. DISTRIB. Sub-tropical Himalaya from Garhwal eastwards 

 to Bhotan, up to 6,000 feet, and from the Khasia Hills to Burma. A 

 very beautiful plant when in blossom, the i white flowers resembling 

 at a distance patches of snow. 



4, CRESSA, Linn. ; FJ. Brit. Ind. iv, 225. 



Small erect or diffuse branching undei shrubs, usually grey- 

 pubescent. Leaves small, entire. Flowers small, sessile in the 

 upper axils or passing into terminal suikes or clusters. Sepals 

 small, thin, imbricate, nob enlarging in fruit. Corolla small, 

 funnel-shaped, tube shore, lobes subimbricate in bud. Stamen 

 exserted, filaments filiform. Ovary 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; styles 

 3, distinct, equal, stigmas capitate. Fruit a 2-4-valved capsule, 

 usually 1-celled. /Seeds usually 4 in India plants, glabrous cotyledons 

 linear, plicate. Species 3, in the warmer regions of the world. 



C. cretica, Linn. Sp. PL 223 ; F. B. I. iv, 225 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain 

 Beng. PL 725; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 228. 0. indica, Retz.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii, 72. 



A small erect bush-like annual. Stems 6-18 in. long, slender, much 

 branched. Leaves crowded, sessile - in. long, densely silky-hairy ; 

 lower cordate, upper smaller, ovate or lanceolate. Flowers very shortly 

 pedicelled, white or pink ; bracts 2, small, linear, appressed to the 

 calyx. Calyx densely silky; segments in. long, elliptic, obtuse, 

 concave. Corolla % in. long, divided down to the middle; lobes 

 oblong, reflexed, hairy outside near the apex. Capsule %- in. long, 

 ovoid, pointed, hairy at the apex. Seeds 4. 



Found mostly in the western portion of the area, and usually in cultivated 

 ground where the soil is sandy, as in the districts of Muttra, Agra and 

 in Merwara, but nowhere common. DISTRIB. Throughout the hotter 

 parts of India from the Punjab and Calcutta to Ceylon, especially nepr 



