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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
in axillary few-flowered peduncled or sub-sessile cymes. Sepals 5, 
small, sub-equal, not enlarged in fruit. Corolla small, funnel-shaped or 
sub-rotate ; limb plicate, sub-entire. Stamens 5, included or exserted ; 
filaments filiform. Ovary 2-celled or, rarely, 1-celled ; ovules 4 ; 
styles 2, free from the base, each cleft into 2 linear or sub-clavate 
stigmas, papillose on the inner face. Fruit a 4-valved, less often a 
2-valved capsule, 2-celled or 1-celled. Seeds 4 or 2, rarely solitary, 
glabrous; cotyledons twice plicate. — Distrib. Species about 80, 
mostly tropical American ; the present the only Asiatic. 
Evolvulus alsinoides, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 392. A small peren- 
nial herb ; annual branches numerous, wiry, often prostrate. Leaves 
variable in shape from lanceolate to ovate, and in pubescence from 
sparingly silky to densely tawny or rufous-tomentose ; '25 to 1 in. or 
occasionally 1-5 in. long, -2 to -5 in. wide ; petiole absent or short, 
rarely - 2 in. long. Flowers 1 to 3, on peduncles '1 in. to 1 or 1-5 in. 
long ; bracts small, linear, hirsute, persistent ; pedicels -05 to -5 in. 
long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, hirsute, -1 to -15 in. long. Corolla pale blue 
or white, transparent, -25 to -3 in. long. Capsule globose, -15 in. in 
diam., 4-valved. Seeds 4, glabrous. Burm. FI. Zeyl. 9, t. 6, f. 1 ; 
Wall. Cat. 1317 ; Boxb. Flor. Ind. II. 105 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 447 ; 
Clarke in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 220. E. linifolius, Linn. Sp. PI. 
ed. II. 392 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 449. E. angustifolius, Boxb. Flor. 
Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 107. E. hirsutus, Lamk Encyc. Meth. 
III. 538 ; 111. t. 216, f. 2 ; Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 447, excl. syn. Boxb. 
E. sericeus, Wall. Cat. 1315. Convolvulus valerianoides, Blanco FI 
Filip. 90. 
Nicobars : Kamorta, Kurz ! Singapore : Changi, Ridley ! — 
Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
Ihe form recorded from the Nicobars and Singapore is the narrow-leaved form, 
which is E. linifolius Linn. In both localities it is probably an introduced weed. 
6. Bonamia, Thouars. 
Large climbing shrubs. Leaves large ovate-cordate, entire, firm. 
Flowers medium, in axillary peduncled cymes ; bracts small. Sepals 5, 
sub-equal, firm, ovate. Corolla infundibuliform, tube hirsute externally 
except opposite the sepals ; limb 5-lobed, plicate. Stamens, 5, included, 
adnate to corolla-tube; filaments filiform, at least in upper part. 
Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4 ; style 2-fid to the middle; stigmas 2, 
capitate. Fruit a globose or ovoid capsule ; valves thin, splitting 
irregularly at their apices. Seeds normally 4, glabrous or nearly so. 
Distrib. Species about 30, throughout the tropics. 
