Er^cihe.] 



63. CONVOLVULACEiE. 



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tube, lobes bifid, plaited in bud. Stamens at the base o£ the corolla 

 tube. Ovary 1 -celled with 4, erect ovules. Fruit a fleshy^ 1-seeded 

 berry ; cotyledons plicate. 



E, paniculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 585 ; Br. Fl. 1. 4. 180; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 Bomb. FL 1G9 ; Braudis For. Fl. 344. Var. Wightiana, B. WigUiana. 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 170; Brandis For. Fl, 344. Ankole^ sengar 

 hally^ K. 



Throughout India from Oudh eastwards and southward to Ceylon, as- 

 cendiug to 4000 feet in the Himalayas. Throughout the presidency. 

 The variety Wightiana, is common in the moist forests of the Konkan and 

 North Kdnara. El. June-Dec. Fr. ripe March onwards. 



Fruit black, fleshy, shining glabrous, ellipsoid, 1 in. long, supported by 

 the rusty-pubescent, 5-lobed calyx. Cotyledons crumpled, 



2. RIVEA, Chois. 



Climbers. Leaves cordate, silky beneath, petiole longf. Flowers 

 few 1-3, on axillary peduncles. Sepals ovate or oblong, sub- equal. 

 Corolla large, white, with a long cylindrical tube and a wide-monthed, 

 plaited limb. Stamens included. Ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; disk 

 annular ; stigmas linear, oblong. Fruit indehiscent or irregularly 

 breaking up, shining, nearly dry, sub-globose. Seeds 1-4, in mealy 

 pulp. 



Leaves white-tonieutose beneath. Corolla silky outside. 1. i?. ornafa. 



Leaves silky beneath. Corolla glabrescent without ... 2, JR, ht/pocrateriformis, 



1. R. ornata, Chois. Convolv. Or. 27. t. 3 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 183 ; Argyreia 

 ornata, Brandis For. Fl. 843. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 168 ; Lettsomia 

 ornata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 496. Fhand, M. 



Western peninsula in dry forests from Lahore to Mysore. 

 Throughout the presidency in deciduous forests, not common. Fl. B. S. 



2. R. hypocrateriformis, Chois. Convolv. Or. 26 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 184 ; 

 Dalz. and Gibs. 168. B. bona-nox, Boxb. ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 168. 

 R, fragrans, Nimmo. Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 127. The Midnapore Clove- 

 Bcented Creeper. Kulmiluta, Vern. 



Dry forests of Western India from Lahore to Mysore, also in Assam. 



Common in hedges and in dry forests throughout the presidency, Fl. 

 R. S. Fr. ripe Sept.-Oct. Flowers sweet-scented. 



3. ARGYREIA, Lour. 



Large twining shrubs. Leaves silky or pubescent beneath. Flowers 

 large, purple, or rose, rarely white in axillary cymes. Sepals from 

 orbicular to lanceolate, sub-equal, or the inner smaller, adpressed to the 

 fruit, of the enlarged. Corolla usually campanulate. Stamens includ- 



