CONVOLVULACE 2. 721 
tary; bracts at base of cymes or under solitary flowers opposite ; 
bracteoles under pedicels small, scale-like. epals 5, imbricate, 
occasionally slightly connate at base, users persistent, sometimes 
accrescent. Petals 5, connate in a campanulate or funnel-shaped, 
rarely subrotate corolla; lobes of limb short or long, often plicate 
in bud, after flowering the limb either incurled or reverting to the 
original wstivation. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube; anthers 
oblong; dehiscence longitudinal, introrse or lateral. Carpels 
very rarely 3 or more, connate in a superior ovary, the base often 
encircled by an annular or lobed disk, ne cells as many or by 
Spurious dissepiments twice as many as carpels; ovules in each 
carpel 2, sessile, erect, anatropous; oes 1, rarely 2; stigma capi- 
tate, 2-lobed, or 2-fid. Fruit an indehiscent berry, or a 2~4-valved, 
or cireumscissile, or irregularly rupturing capsule. Seeds 4-2, 
rarely 1, erect; albumen 0 or scanty; cotyledons generally plaited, 
rarely flat 
*Corolla-tube usually uniformly enlarged from base to apex, the 5 bands 
on the lobes rarely clearly defined from the intervening spaces ; ; pollen 
not spinescent :—[p. 7 
ellow, parasitic, twining herbs without os lobes of corolla 
imbricate ; mouth scaly ; embryo spiral, without cotyledons 
— 
Green, non- parasitic, leafy herbs or shrubs, usually twini 
Fruit indehiscent, woody or fleshy, rather large; reek short or 
none; stigma 5-10-rayed ; corolla-lobes 2-fid, aa 
Erycibe. 
Fruit dehiscent, or if indehiscent, small, with thin, fragile walls :— 
Flowers in racemes or panicles; corolla-lobes induplicate-con- 
torted; ovary 1-locular 2-ovuled, rarely 4-ovuled 1-2-locular ; 
capsule 1-seeded, indehiscent, or rarely 2-valved; outer 3 or all 
the sepals enlarged in fruit ; style entire or shortly 2-lobed 
Flowers in cymes or solitary ; capsule valvate or opercular, rarely 
sayoraty: irregularly :— 
tStyles 2, free or partly a below ; sepals not or slightly 
aecuida 3 in fruit:—[p. 7 
Corolla-lobes ee ; flowers axillary, solitary; stamens 
exserted ; styles quite free; stigmas globose; capsule 1-locu- 
lar, 4-valved, 1-seeded Cressa 
ern induplicate-contorted ; flowers cymose ; stamens 
xserted : 
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