728 BENGAL PLANTS. 
Sepals 5, usually subequal. Petals 5, connate in a 
or funnel-shaped corolla; limb plicate, subentire. 
included; filaments usually unequal. Carpels connate in 
2-celled ovary; ovules 4; style filiform; stigmas 2, oblong 
linear, distinct. Fruit a 4-valved 2-locular, or irregularly rup- 
turing capsule. Seeds normally 4, glabrous, black, verrucose. 
1329. Sia elines PLURICAULIS Choisy ; F. B. I. iv. 218; E. a 4 
C.1781. Evolvulus pilosus F. I. ii. 106. : 
Tirhut; Behar; Chota Nagpur. a 
A diffuse, hairy perennial. 4 
623. Jacquemontia Choisy. a. 
Climbing herbs or undershrubs, usually pubescent; leaves 
usually cordate or ana entire or rarely toothed or lobed. 1 
Flowers in axillary, und, umbellate or capitate cymes, 
rarely solitary ; hier Rea rarely leafy. Sepals 5, equal “orf 
b 
ri in 2 distinct nerves. Stamens 5, included. Carpels connate 
a glabrous, 2-celled ovary ; ovules 4; ee filiform ; stigmas 4 _ 
ra or elliptic-oblong. Fruit a se 8-valved, rarely 4- “valved, 
2-locular capsule. . Seeds y 4, usually glabrous, ofteD 
slightly marginally winge a. i 
Flowers pink or white ; mouth of corolla narrow pa niculatd. | 
Flowers blue; mouth of corolla wide corrulet. | 
1330. scape PANICULATA Hallier f. Convolvulus parc : 
F. I. i. 471; F. B. I. iv. 220; E. D. c. 1780. | 
eae; W. Bengal; — 4 
A slender, matted twin | 
1331. JAcQUEMONTIA C@RULEA Choisy ; F. B. L. iv. 220. 
ardens, general. 
A slender twiner 
624. Merremia Dennst. a 
Climbing, rarely prostrate or erect shrubs or gee — rarely 
winged ; lees alternate, entire, lobed or divided. 
usually long- pesyncied, solitary or in ee te oli many 
flowered cymes; bracts small. eles 5, subequal, oliriee 
paghdnecuiaaans. rarely rounded or truncate, convex, usu 
