536 D. Pi'aiu — Indian ConvolvulacetB. [No. 3, 



tare form, bub the balance seems in favour of the latter view. No 

 trace of sexual openings can be made out in the " Investigator " speci- 

 men, nor do they appear to have been described in ari)^ of the previ- 

 ous records. It is apparently very rare, and it is difficult even to sur- 

 mise what Pagurid it can be the normal larva of, so it may possibly 

 be an arrested larval form. If Miers' theory as to the nature of 

 Grimothea gregaria, Leach, be correct, viz., that tliis Galatheid is merely 

 a pelagic larval form of Munida suhrngosa (White), we would have a 

 similar parallel, but tliere is i\o evidence to show that Glaucothoe leads 

 a pelagic life. 



Noviciae Indica3 XII/. Further Notes on Indian Convolvulacess ; ivith 

 descriptions of three additional species. — By D. Prain. 



[Eecd. 24th June, Read 1st July.] 



Since the presentation of the notes on Gonvolvulacese published as 

 Novicise Indicse VIII, in August 1894, three more species have been 

 added to the Indian Flora. Descriptions of these are now given for 

 the convenience of field- botanists and the present opportunity is taken 

 of adding notes regarding several species already dealt with. 



]. ERYCIBERoxB. 



10. Ekycibe coriacea Wall. 



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While at work in the Prodromus Herbarium of M. Casimir de Oandolle at 

 Geneva, the writer was able to compare examples of E. fragrans (agreeing with 

 Wall. Cat. n. 1336) with the apparently unique specimen of E. coriacea Wall. {Gat. 

 n. 1337) which has not been lost but is safely preserved in the cover in which 

 M. Choisy had placed it. Its flowers are exactly identical with those of Walt. Cat. 

 n. 1336 nor do its leaves differ sufiiciently, in the writer's opinion, to admit of the two 

 plants being treated even as distinct varieties. 



15. Erycibe festiva Prain, Nov. Ind. viii. 76. 



In the description, for " cymes many-fld." read " cymes 7-12-fld." 



17. Erycibe strigosa Prain; branchlets round densely covered 

 with a black adpressed tome"ntura, leaves rather long-petioled thinly 

 coriaceous glabrous above densely covered with a black adpressed 

 tomentum beneath, elliptic, base cuneate apex rather long-acuminate, 

 lateral nerves visible beneath not above, cymes few-fid. in long narrow 

 axillary panicles with densely rusty tomentose rachis, peduncles and 

 pedicels. 



Malay Peninsula : Perak, at Tnaipeng 500-800 feet elev., Kunstler 

 u. 846 1 ! 



