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cymes, very rarely solitary ; bracts small, rarely leafy. Sepals 5, equal 

 or unequal. Corolla usually small ; tube infundibuliform with a wide 

 or narrow throat, and with 5 vertical bands each ending in 2 distinct 

 nerves ; limb plicate. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, included. 

 Ovary glabrous, 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigmas 2, linear or 

 elliptic-oblong. Fruit a globose 2-celled capsule, usually 8-valved, 

 rarely 4:-valved. Seeds normally 4, usually glabrous, often slightly 

 winged along the margins. — Disteib, Species 60 to 70, mostly in 

 Brazil ; 2 to 3 in S.E. Asia. 



Jacquemontia paniculata, HalHer f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 541 ; 

 XVIII. 95. A slender climber ; stems twining, puberulous. Leaves 

 ovate-cordate, acute, entire, pubescent beneath, puberulous at length 

 glabrescent above, 1-5 to 3 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; petiole '5 to 1 in. 

 long. Floioers axillary, in small dense many-flowered sub-capitate 

 cymes; peduncles puberulous, 1 to 1-5 in. long; bracts inconspicuous. 

 SejJals 5, ovate-cordate, pubescent, -25 in. long, not altered in fruit. 

 Corolla tubular, -5 in. long ; mouth narrow, limb pink or white, shortly 

 acutely 5-lobed. Capsule globose, glabrous, -2 in. in diam. Seeds 

 glabrous. Convolvulus parviflorus, Vahl. Symb. III. 29 ; Eoxb. Flor. 

 Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 51 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 98, and in DC. Prod. 

 IX. 413; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 220. 0. asclepiadeus , 

 Wall. Cat. 1396. Ipomcea panicidata, Burm. Flor. Ind. 50, t. 21, f. 3. 

 I. parviflora, Pers. Synops. I. 183 {not o/ Vahl). 



Peeak : Kampong Kota, Wray 3337! — Disteib. TropicaF Africa, 

 S.E. Asia generally, Australia. 



11. Meeeemia, Dennst. 



Shrubs or herbs, usually climbing, rarely erect or prostrate ; stems 

 very rarely winged. Leaves entire, lobed, or divided. Flowers 

 axillary, usually long-peduncled, solitary or in few-flowered, rarely 

 many-flowered cymes ; bracts small. Sepals 5, sub-equal, elliptic or 

 lanceolate, acuminate, rarely rounded or truncate, convex, usually 

 slightly accrescent in fruit. Corolla campanulate, white, less often 

 yellow or orange, the tube with 5 vertical bands each usually marked 

 by 5 dark-violet lines; limb plicate, margin slightly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, 

 unequal, included or exserted ; filaments filiform ; anthers usually 

 twisted ; pollen never spinulose. Ovary 2-celled or occasionally 

 4-celled ; ovules 4 ; style filiform ; stigma 2-globose. Fricit a 4-valved 

 capsule, 1-4-locular, sometimes the style separating with a small stopple. 

 Seeds 4, rarely fewer, dull, glabrous, rarely puberulous. — Disteib. 

 Species about 40, in all warm countries. 



