212 CONVOLVULACER. [ Erycibe. 
dissepiments attached to the axis, or opening transversely or irregu- 
larly, or an indehiscent berry. Seeds erect, with a membranous 
or coriaceous testa. Albumen scanty or none. Cotyledons usually 
much folded, rarely straight or wanting. —Shrubs or herbs, usually 
twining or creeping, rarely trees or leafless parasitic twiners, with 
usually milky juice. Leaves alternate, simple or divided. Flowers 
variously arranged, axillary or terminal. Bracts and_bractlets 
usually small or deciduous, rarely large and persistent. 
An order of which about 70 species occur in Burma. The 
milky juice of most species is strongly purgative. Scammony is 
derived from Convolvulus Seammoni d a similar product comes 
from amie ag BS Pharbitis cathartica, Piptostegia and others. 
The best sort j in og ania rh , and 
et pains: and from Batatas jalapa. 
‘orolla-labes 2-cleft ; stigma almost sessile, 
Ovary Pretty 4-ovuled ; — large, glo sre ; fruita berry . Erycibe. 
* 
Cor e riggs = ire or potas; le longer or shorter, 
raeee or the seis “Distinct. 
indi iscent berry. 
Ovary 4-celled, the cells 1-ovuled ; stigmas 2, line: . Rivea. 
org Ss the =~ 1-ovuled ; nee sities didymous or 2- . 
Pee. Ls 
Ovary sea the cel Is 2-ovuled; stigma didymous- glo obose. a 
X X Fruit a capsule, witha thin or hard ine valvately 
opening, or berry-like and t very thin 
and rupturing irregularl 
+ Bracts ae iaieteds decid duous; — small. 
t Styles 2, Gee ai = mip cht 
oes 2-celled, the cells 2-0 stile capitate sepals not 
hanged in fruit, or the abe nee enlar: . Breweria. 
arging 
++ Style simple, = stigmas capitake to filiform. 
12) oe little enlarged in fruit ; cap- 
“ores 
2-4-val ved, rarely pleted or irregularly bursting ® Ipomea. 
OO Sepa aes of them much ice ots and 
-like in fruit; capsule 1-celled, 1- 
Ovary ee the cells 2 2 ovuled ; style entire or eet: Papa 
. Porana 
+-+ Bract leafy-enlarg ed in ‘frait, conspicuous. 
Corolla deeply B-lobed ; styles 2; capsule 4-8-valv aS: adnate to 
near the centre of the bract ; scandent shrubs . + Neuropeltis. 
ERYCIBE, Roxb. | 
cate. Corolla rotate, with a short tube; lst 
aoopiy 6-3 Salobed the lobes deeply 2-lobed with the lobes involute 
