740 BENGAL PLANTS. [Stictocardia. 
ovules 4; sfyle filiform; stigma 2-globose. Fruit a thin- walled, 
indehiscent, dry berry, closely enveloped by the ssssiae eon softly 
fleshy sepals. Seeds 4, minutely villous, with hirsute 
1372. SricrocaRDIA TILIZFOLIA Hallier f. a bei tino 
F. B. I. iv. 184. Convolvulus gangeticus 
C. Bengal; Sundribuns; Chittagong: on ats a ‘tidal 
ace 
An extensive, perennial climber. 
632. Argyreia Lour. 
imbing, rarely suberect shrubs; leaves cordate to lanceolate, 
pubescent or silky. owers sMaby!e usually in many-flowered 
cymes, often capitate ; bracts often conspicuous. Sepals 5, her- 
baceous, in fruit leathery, little enlarged, often red within. Petals 
5, connate in a rose-purple, funnel-shaped corolla; limb plicate, 
more or less hirsute dubbeniklly; shortly lobed. Stamens 5, in- 
ane anthers oblong, straight. Disk annular. Carpels connate 
a 4-celled ovary; ovules 4; style filiform; stigma 2-globose. 
Fruit a dry, hard berry. Seeds 4 or fewer, embedded in mealy 
pulp. 
Ei: eaves quite ¢ = h 
sea oblong or nisin, acute, base rhomboid or rounded; bracts 
a e owers in lax cymes; corolla sparsely hairy on the folds exter- 
Bites sparsely adpressed-strigose beneath; bracts persistent 
Daltoni. 
Leaves densely, softly adpressed-silky beneath ; bracts caducous 
splendens. 
Leaves ovate-cordate, acute, basal sinus deep, softly adpressed, white- 
ts deciduou 8 
ally 
Leayes sparsely, patently hairy above, ovate- sae acute ; basal sinus 
shallow ; corolla sparsely hairy on the folds externally :— 
Leaves densely, softly adpressed-silky beneath; bracts all similar, 
lanceolate argentea 
Leaves sparsely, patently hairy beneath as well as ie one eee : 
near apex of peduncle often large, leafy, the rest lanceolat 
Rox sberphel: var. ampla. 
1373. Anayreta Dattont Clarke; F. B, I. iv. 190. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A large climber. 
