In all the western provinces, common ; C. Bengal, rather : 
fae diffuse perennial. Santal. Tandi-kodebaha. 
Pa | 
1823/2. Var. tinrouius F. B. I. iv. 221. E. angustifolius F. 1 
ii. 107. 
In most of the western provinces. 
A small, diffuse perennial. 
1324. EvoLvuLus NumMMuLarRivs Linn. 
C. Beng 
A call Drostrate patra : ‘native of the West : 
Indies, now comple 
618. Bonamia Thouars. 
Large climbing hg ; leaves large, elliptic, entire, firm. 
Flowers medium axillary, peduncled cymes; bracts small. — 
Sepals 5, subequal ese ovate, not enlarged. Petals 5, connate — 
in a funnel-shaped corolla, hairy externally except opposite the | 
sepals ; limb plicate. Stamens 5, included, adnate to corolla-tube; 
filaments filiform, at least above. Carpels connate in a 2-celled 
ore} ; ovules 4; style 2-fid to the middle; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit a globose or ovoid capsule, with thin valves irregularly 
abit at an apices. Seeds normally 4, glabrous or nearly 80. 
1325. ee MIA SEMIDIGYNA Hallier f. Convolvulus semidigym 
i, 468. Breweria cordata F. B. I. iv. 228. 
‘cited: 28. Senge Tippera. 
_ A powerful climber. 
649. Calystegia R. Br. 
Climbing or prostrate perennial herbs ; leaves entire or lobed, 2 
glabrous or nearly so. Flowers axillary, solitary, rarely in few" 
flowered cymes; bracts 2, large, leafy, nie: enclosing the 
calyx. Sepals 5, ovate or oblong, the 2 in rather smaller. 
Petals 5, connate in a funnel-shaped or er glabrous 
corolla; tube with bands in centre of petals each with 5 pellucid | 
lines at the base; limb subentire, plicate. Stamens 5, included; 
2-celled ovary; ovules 4; style filiform ; stigma of 2 oblong lobes: : 
Fruit a globose, 1-celled, 4-valved, 4-seeded capsule. Seeds black, 
glabrous or verrucose. 
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