Erycibe.] CONVOLVULACES. 723 
Flowers large, white or purple, never pink, quite regular 
alonyction. 
§Stamens arising from the backs of 5 scales attached to the corolla- 
tube ; flowers small, urceolate, fasciculate; fruit 4-valved [p. 722] 
Lepistemon. 
{Fruit indehiscent, woody or mealy or fleshy :—[p. 722] 
Fruit woody ; stigmas elliptic-oblong; corolla hypocrateriform 
Rivea. 
Fruit mealy or fleshy; stigmas globose ; corolla not or very rarely 
hypocrateriform :— 
Sepals large, orbicular, accrescent, mucilaginous, ultimately com- 
pletely enveloping the fruit ....s<....1..c-eesenesenosseaivs ocard 
Sepals small, ovate or patie ea leathery, ultimately ya 
not enlarging so as to envelop the fr 
Ovary 4-celled 
Ovary 2-celled 
Eitwinnte: 
ov 
Lettsomia 
613. Cuscuta Linn. 
Leafless, twining, yellow or reddish parasitic herbs. Flowers 
small, white or rose-coloured, fascicled, sessile or shortly pedi- 
celled; bracts small or 0. Sepals 5 or 4, subequal, free or tana 
connate at the base. Petals 5 or 4, connate in an ovoid or cam 
eee corolla, usually with a ring of fimbriate or lobed nae 
x base or below the Hsin lobes short, imbricate. Stamens 
ia adnate near throat of corolla; filaments short, linear ; 
. oblong, partially exserted. Carpels connate in a more or 
less completely 2-celled ovary ; ovules 4; styles 1 or 2; stigmas 2. 
Frwit a globose or ovoid, dry or succulent, cireumscissile or irregu- 
larly rupturing 4-2-seeded capsule. Seeds glabrous; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo — spiral ; a ag ee 0 or obscure. 
a Roxb.; F. I. 
1318. CuscuTa REFLE pRB. TL. iv. 228; 
In all the pro 
A yellow, sation samy parasite. Beng. Haldi algusi, 
algusi-lata. 
614, Erycibe Roxb. 
Scandent or diffuse shrubs, rarely trees ; sage pestis entire, 
coriaceous, oe Flowers small ; cymes ary 0 ] 
racemes or panicles; bracts small, as Lois 5, small, 
subequal, or nada coriaceous, adpressed to base of fruit. Petals 
