Erycibe.] CONVOLVULACER. 213 ° 
closely folded and twisted-imbricate in bud. Stamens 5. Ovary 1- 
celled, with 4 erect ovules ; stigma sessile, large and thick, 5- or 
10-furrowed, divisible into two. Berry indehiscent, by abortion 
usually 1-seeded—Large scandent shrubs, with entire coriaceous 
leaves. Flowers small, yellow, in short racemes, cymes or clusters, 
either all axillary, or the upper ones passing into a leafless termi- 
nal panicle, 
%* Flowers clustered. 
Leaves strongly and prominently nerved and veined. : . E. glomerata, 
* in cymes arranged into raceme-like elongate 
Veination entirely absent or obscure. . 3. gw BE coriacea, 
Leaves thin-coriaceous, the lateral nerves and net-veination thin 
but conspicuous ‘: . £. paniculata, 
., % X Leaves opaque on both sides, glaucescent. : 
Panicle and sepals only sparingly silk-hairy, glabrescent . . E. glaucescens. 
shoots rusty or tawny hirsute ; leaves rigidly but rather thin-coria- 
: Pp : 
folded in the bud ; berries oblong or elliptically oblong, nearly $ in. 
ong, glabrous, 1-seeded., 
i hee Soy im.— i. Say, 
Moreh 4 Ps seam not rare in Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan.-March; Fr 
2. E, coriacea, Wall.—A large scandent evergreen shrub, the 
young shoots covered with a fugaceous tawny or rusty tomentum; 
leaves thick-coriaceous, obversely lanceolate to lanceolate and ellip- 
Heal, ona strong petiole 3-5 lin. long, apiculate or 7 and 
th an 
ly so; flowers small, yellow, very shortly and stoutly pedicelled, 
= dense, almost sessile, tawny and rusty-tomentose cymes collected 
™m short, more or less dense or rarely lax racemes or raceme-like 
Panicles in the axils of the upper leaves and at the end of the 
