Ehrella.] < 61. boragine.e. 145 



E. obtusifolia, Hocbst. ; A. DC. Prodr. IX. 507 ; Fl. Br. 1. 4. 142 ; 

 Brundis For. Fl. 310. Siiid. Fl. Mcb.-Apl. 



E. buxifolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. 14l', t. 57 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 144 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 1G7. Pala, M. In tLe dry forests of the Deccan ; common on the 

 stony hills near Dhdrwar. Fl. Mch. Fr. ripe June, July. 



RHABDIA, Mart. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate or clustered. Flowers small in few 

 flowered racemes. Calyx 5-divided. Corolla pink, tube short, limb 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-cclled j stylo undivided. Fruit a 

 drupe with 4 pyrenes. Seeds albuminous. 



R. lycioides, Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. II. 137, t. 195 ; i?. viminea, 

 Dalz.& Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 170; Brandis For. Fl. 341. Common in the 

 beds of the Konkan and North Kanara rivers. Fl. Oct., Dec. Fr. 

 Jany. 



Order 62. CONVOLVULACE^. 



Shrubs or herbs, usually twining. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 cymose, bracteate, 1 or more together, regular, hermaphrodite, 

 often showy. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, persistent, sometimes enlarged 

 in fruit. Corolla usually campanulate or funnel-shaped ; limb 

 shortly or deeply lobed, often 5-plaited in bud. Stamens 5, on the 

 corolla-tube. Ovary superior, 2 carpels, 2-celled or by false dis- 

 sepiments 4-celled ; style 1, rarely 2, stigma capitate 2 -lobed, or 2- 

 branched ; ovules 2 in each carpel. Fruit indehiscent, 2-4-valved 

 or breaking up irregularly, 2-4, rarely 1 -seeded. Seeds erect, 

 albumen 0. 



Fruit indeliiscent. 



Ovary 1 -celled. Stigma large, globose, subsessile ... Erycibe. 

 Ovary 4-celled. 



Stigmas 2, linear-oblong. Fruit dehiscent or indehis- 

 cent RiVEA. 



Stigmas 2, globose Argyreia. 



Ovary 2-celled Lettsomia^ 



Capsule 2-4-valved or fragile and breaking up. 

 Bracts and bractlets deciduous, often small. 



Styles 2 ... _ ... Breweeia. 



Style simple ; stigmas capitate or filiform. 



Sepals not or little enlarged in fruit. Capsule 2-4- 



ceUed Ipom<ea. 



Sepals enlarged in fruit. Capsule 1-celled, 1-seeded. PoranA, 

 Bract orbicular, leafy with the 4-8-Talved, small capsule, 



adnate to its centre ... ... Neuropeltis. 



ERYCIBE, Roxb. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, evergreen. Corolla with a 

 short tube, lobes bifid, plaited in bud. Stamens at the base of the 

 corolla-tube. Ovary 1 -celled with 4, erect ovules. Fruit a fleshy, 

 1-seeded berry ; cotyledons plicate. 

 B 144—19 



