298 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



in axillary few-flowered peduncled or sub-sessile cymes. Sepals 5, 

 small, sub-equal, not enlarged in fruit. Corolla small, funnel-shaped or 

 sub-rotate ; limb plicate, sub-entire. Stamens 5, included or exserted ; 

 filaments filiform. Ovary 2-celled or, rarely, 1-celled ; ovules 4 ; 

 styles 2, free from the base, each cleft into 2 linear or sub-clavate 

 stigmas, papillose on the inner face. Fruit a 4:-valved, less often a 

 2-valved capsule, 2-celled or 1-celled. Seeds 4 or 2, rarely solitary, 

 glabrous ; cotyledons twice plicate.— Disteib. Species about 80, 

 mostly tropical American ; the present the only Asiatic. 



EvoLVULUS ALSiNOiDES, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 392. A small peren- 

 nial herb ; annual branches numerous, wiry, often prostrate. Leaves 

 variable in shape from lanceolate to ovate, and in pubescence from 

 sparingly silky to densely tawny or rufous-tomentose ; '25 to 1 in. or 

 occasionally 1-5 in. long, -2 to "5 in. wide ; petiole absent or short, 

 rarely '2 in. long. Flowers 1 to 3, on peduncles "1 in. to 1 or 1"5 in. 

 long ; bracts small, linear, hirsute, persistent ; pedicels '05 to "5 in. 

 long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, hirsute, '1 to "IS in. long. Corolla pale blue 

 or white, transparent, '25 to -3 in. long. Capsule globose, '15 in. in 

 diam., 4-valved. Seeds 4, glabrous. Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 9, t. 6, f. 1 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1317 ; Eoxb. Elor. Ind. II. 105 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 447 ; 

 Clarke in Hook f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 220. E. linifolius, Linn. Sp. PL 

 ed. II. 392 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 449. F. angustifolius, Eoxb. Flor. 

 Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 107. E. hirsutics, Lamk Encyc. Meth. 

 III. 538 ; 111. t. 216, f. 2 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 447, excl. syn. Eoxb. 

 E. sericeus, Wall. Cat. 1315. Co7ivolvulus valerianoides, Blanco El. 

 Eilip. 90. 



NicoBABS : Kamorta, Kurz ! Singapore ; Changi, Bidley ! — 

 DiSTBiB. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



The form recorded from the Nicobars and Singapore is the narrow-leaved form, 

 which is E. linifolius Linn. In both localities it is probably an introduced weed. 



6. BoNAMiA, Thouars. 



Large climbing shrubs. Leaves large ovate-cordate, entire, firm. 

 Flowers medium, in axillary peduncled cymes ; bracts small. Sepals 5, 

 sub-equal, firm, ovate. Corolla inf undibulif orm , tube hirsute externally 

 except opposite the sepals ; limb 5-lobed, plicate. Stamens, 5, included, 

 adnate to corolla-tube ; filaments filiform, at least in upper part. 

 Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4 ; style 2-fid to the middle; stigmas 2, 

 capitate. Fruit a globose or ovoid capsule ; valves thin, splitting 

 irregularly at their apices. Seeds normally 4, glabrous or nearly so. — 

 DiSTBiB. Species about 30, throughout the tropics. 



