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Sepals 5, sub-orbicular, hardly altered in fruit. Corolla small, white ; 
tube wide-campanulate ; limb deeply 5-lobed, the lobes induplicate- 
valvate in bud. Stamens 5, exserted or included, adnate to corolla- 
tube ; filaments filiform. Ovary imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled ; 
ovules 4 ; styles 2, free throughout, stigmas sub-capitate wavy or 
obscurely lobed. Fruit a globose, 4-valved, 1-seeded capsule sessile 
near the centre of the flat,. much-accrescent bracteole. Seed globose, 
glabrous, albuminous; cotyledons plicate. — D istrib. Species 2, in 
tropics of Eastern Hemisphere. 
Neuropeltis kacemosa, Wall. Cat. 1322. A robust climber ; 
branehlets pubescent, lenticellate, rather dark. Leaves alternate, 
elliptic-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate with a narrow 
longish thickened mucro ; lamina 2-5 to 5 in. long, 1-25 to 2 - 25 in. 
wide ; firmly papery ; glabrous except along the midrib above, slightly 
rusty with a sub-persistent pubescence beneath ; lateral nerves about 
7-paired, somewhat curved forward, rather prominent and pubescent 
beneath. Flowers in axillary racemes 2 to 5 in. long, peduncle - 5 to 
1 in. and rachis rusty - tomentose ; bracts small ovate; pedicels ’12 
to - 2 in. long, tomentose, slender, with an ovate-lanceolate bracteole 
under the calyx. Sepals 5, somewhat connate below, small, orbicular, 
rufous-villous. Corolla small, campanulate, white, tube rufous-villous 
externally ; limb ‘25 to -3 in. across, 5-lobed, lobes ovate nearly as long 
as the tube. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, exserted; filaments 
thickened at base. Ovary imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled, rufous- 
villous at base ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles 2, glabrous ; stigmas 
large globose wavy. Capsule -25 in. long, ovoid, glabrescent, sessile 
in the centre of the accrescent, orbicular, scarious, reticulate bract 
1 to 1'75 in. wide with rounded or cordate base. Seed globose, 
glabrous, albuminous ; cotyledons plicate. Eoxb. Elor. Ind. ed. Carey 
& Wall. II. 44 ; Deless. Ic. Select. V. t. 96 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 109, 
t. 2. f. 12, and in DC. Prod. IX. 437 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 291 ; Kurz 
For. Flor. Burm. II. 222 ; Clarke in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 225. 
N. ovata, Wall. Cat. 1323 ; Choisy Convolv. Or. 110, t. 2, f. 13, and in 
DC. Prod. IX. 437. N. bracteata, Griff. Notul. IY. 285. N. intermedia, 
Griff. Notul. IV. 285. 
Perak : Larut, Scortechini 1483 ! 1489 ! 2071 ! King’s Collector 
3544 ! 3792 ! 4370 ! 6809 ! Penang : Wallich ! Malacca : Maingay 
1152 ! 1153 ! Singapore : Wallich ! — Distbib. Malabar, Borneo. 
5. Evolvulus, Linn. 
Small prostrate or erect herbs or undershrubs, never climbing. 
Leaves small, entire, often distichous. Flowers small, blueish or white, 
