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(3ENUS XVI. EVOLVULUS. 



Pentandrla Dl^jmia. Sex: Si/tt^ 



beriv. Prom JSvolvo, to roll out j not twining, opposite to 

 Convolvulus. 



Gen. Chae. Sepals five : corolla campannlate or fannel-shap'^ 

 ed : styles 2-cleft : ovarj 2-ceIled, 4-ovuled : capstile 2-celled. — • 

 Herbs or small andershrubs, not twining. 



(1) E. axsinoiCes. (Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. Sp. 892.-^Dec. prod. IX. p. 447. — Eoxb. flon 

 Ind. II. p. 105. 



Syn. £. hirsuttis, Larn, 



Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. 9. f. 1. t. 6. — ^Riieecle Mai. XI. t. 64. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, casspitose, procumbent, covered with 

 expressed hairs : leaves ovate-oblong, subsessile, hirsute beneath t 

 peduncles 1 -flowered, as long as or longer than the leaf: flowers 

 Very small, deep blue. ' 



Common in the Peninsula in grassy places, dowering in the cold 

 season. 



(2) E. PiLostrs. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 



Spec Char. Stems scarcely any^ young parts clothed with 

 soft hairs : leaves alternate, remote, sessile, linear-lanceolate, hairy : 

 j)eduncles axillary, very short, hairy> 3-flowered : flowers neariji 

 sessile on a common peduncle, small, whiter 



Hindostan, flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS XVH. CUSCUi^A. 

 i^eutandria Dlgynla. Sae: Syst; 



Seriv. From its Arabic name Kechout. 



Gen. Char. Oaly:x 5, rarely 4.icleft : corolla globose-urceolate, 

 or tubular, limb 6, rarely 4-cleft : stamens 5, rarely 4, adnata to 

 the tube of the corolla, often furnished with epipetalous scalea 

 within at the base : ovary freOj 2-celled, 4-ovviled : styles rarelj 

 combined into one : stigmas acute, clavate or capitate : fruit often 

 capsular with a membrauaceoos pericarp : embryo spiral, filiforin^ 



