222 CONVOLVULACEZ. [ Neuropeltis. 
leaves. Flowers small, in simple or compound racemes. Bracts 
none. Bractlets close to the sepals, leaf-like enlarging in fruit. 
. N, racemosa, Wall.—A large scandent shrub, all parts glab- 
rous ; leaves elliptical to elliptically and ovate-oblong, usually acute 
at the base, on a glabrous petiole 7 to early an inch long, shortly 
acuminate, entire, coriaceous, 24-4 in. long, glabrous ; flowers small, 
white, on short, rusty silk-hairy pedicels, ‘supported by a rotundate, 
acute or retuse, thickly rusty- -tomentose bractlet, forming 1 or 2 
slender, rusty-pubescent racemes in the axils of the leaves and 
shorter than them ; ree ae tilvous.pabeasene broadly 
rotundate, about 1 lin. , the inner ones broader and retuse; 
corolla rotate-bell-shaped, ee 3 lin. across, appressed-pubescent 
outside, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, acute ; stamens 5, Va 
filaments inserted with a villous base at the sinuses of the lol 
ovary tawny-villous ; oS 4- or incompletely 6-8-valved, avid 
globose, the size of a small pea, longer than the rounded sepals, 
very minutely sat alisetly appressed-silky, inserted with the short 
none below the middle of the enlarged floral bractlet, which is 
caetigt y us, 1-1¢ im. each way, cordate-rotundate, more or less 
at the apex, adnate to the slender pedicel for about one- 
third ef its length, arcuately nerved and laxly net-veined, glab- 
rous; seed solitary by abortion, almost globose, black, glabrous. 
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SOLANACEZ. 
Flowers regular or nearly so, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5- rarely 
5-10-toothed, lobed. or -clett, rarely almost entire and truncate, 
persistent or rarely circumseiss-deviduous beyond the base, often 
enlarging in fruit. Corolla from rotate to funnel-shaped, pute” 
4- (rarely 4-10-) -lobed or -cleft, imbricate or twisted in bud. Sta 
enue and @ connivent, dithor parallel or more usually tapermg UP- 
wards and forming a cone round the style, opening i 5 
or transverse slits, rarely dehiscing along their whole | 
simple, or with as many lobes as there are ovary-cells. 
a drupe with a 1-6-celled putamen (or rarely the drupes distinct 
with a 2-celled and 2-seeded. putamen), or more usually a pulpy 
berry, or a septicidally opening, 2-valved or at the summit cit 
