180 CI. CONVOLVULACEi). (C. B. Clarke.) [Eryoibe. 



The following genera are expected to occur in British Burma. 



Dichondra repens, Forst, found in Jits, beyond Ava by Wallieh, belongs to a small 

 group of ConvolvulacecB, with a deeply 2-4-lobed ovary with basilar style, and a fruit 

 of 2-4 utricles ; it is a small creeping herb with cordate or reniform leaves, and 

 small solitary axillary flowers. It is a native of warm countries in the old and new 

 worlds. 



Blinkworthia lycioides, Choisy (DC. Prodr. ix. 334), a very imperfectly known 

 genus from near Ava. An erect villous shrub, with linear leaves glabtous above 

 and subsilky beneath, short 1-fld. peduncles, 3 involucriform bracts, 5 sepals, a 

 small urceolate corolla, 2-lobed stigma and 1 -seeded berry. 



Tbtbub 1. Couvolvulese. Corolla-limb plaited or induplicate in bud. 



* JVuj'f indehiscent. 



Stigma large, globose, subsessile 1. Eeycibe. 



Stigmas 2, linear-oblong 2. ErvEi. 



Ovary 4-eelled ; style long, stigmas 2 3. Aegteeia. 



Ovary 2-celled ; style long, stigmas 2 4. Lbttsomia. 



** Capsule 2-4r-valved, oi- fragile and breaking vp. 



Stigmas 2-globose. Filaments linear or dilated near the base. . 5. IpoitsA. 

 Stigmas 2-globose. Filaments with an oblong process near the 



base ■ 6. Lepistemon. 



Ovary 1-celled. Stigmas short-oblong. Bracts shorter than the 



calyx .... 7. Hewittia. 



Ovary 1-ceUed. Stigmas short-oblong. Bracts enclosing the calyx 8. Caltsteqia. 



Ovary 2-celled. Style 1. Stigmas short-oblong 9. Convolvttlds. 



Ovary 2-c6lled. Styles 2, each with 2 linear stigmas . . . .10. Evolvulds. 



Sepals in fruit enlarged, scarious. Capsule 1-seeded II. Poeana. 



Styles 2, or I deeply 2-partite ; stigmas capitate 12. Bbeweria. 



Styles 2. Bract in fruit large, orbicular flat, reticulated . . .13. Neueopeltis. 



Teibits 2. Cresseae. Corolla-lobes imbricate in bud. 

 Leaves small, sessile. Sepals distinct. Styles 2 14, Cbessa. 



Tmbub 3. Cuscuteee. Leafless, yellow, twining parasites. 

 Corolla small, campanulate or ovoid 15. Ccsctjta. 



1. ERYCIBXi, Roxh. 



Scandent or diffuse shrubs, or erect trees ; shoots rusty-tomentose. Leaves 

 from ovate to narrow-oblong, acuminate, entire, coriaceous. Cymes short, 

 axillary or in terminal racemes or panicles ; bracts usually inconspicuous. 

 Sepals subequal, orbicular, coriaceous, adpressed to the base of the fruit. Corolla 

 white or yellowish ; tube shortly campanulate, densely hairy ; limb plaited in 

 bud, glabrous, lobes subbilobed, entire oi serrate. Stamens on the corolla throat, 

 filaments short ; anthers ovate-lanceolate. Ovary globose, 1-celled, 4-ovuled ; 

 style 0, stigma large subglobose 2-lobed or -partite. Berry fleshy, ovoid or 

 ellipsoid, 1-seeded. Albumen scanty, irregularly intruded between the plicate 

 fleshy cotyledons ; radicle inferior. — Species 20 ; from India to Australia. 



• Cymes in terminal racemes or panicles, sometimes also axillary, 



1. E. paniculata, Roxb. Cor. PI. ii. 31, t. 159, and Fl. Ind. i. 585, and 

 ed. Carey 8f Wall. ii. 284 ; branchlets angular, leaves obovate or obovate-oblong 

 abruptly acuminate base attenuate, cymes in narrow terminal panicles, berry \ 

 in. ellipsoid. WaU. Cat. 1330 ; Wight 111. t. 180 ; Chois. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2, 



