LXXXY. CONVOLVULACEjE. 
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1. ERYCIBE, Roxb. 
(Probably from the Malabar name “ Erima-Tali.”) 
Corolla with a short tube, the limb spreading, of 5 deeply 2-Iobed divisions, 
the lobes in the bud closely folded over each other, the divisions themselves 
eontorted-imbricate. Ovary 1-celled, with 4 erect ovules ; stigma sessile, large 
and thick, divisible into 2, but marked outside with 5 or 10 angles or furrows (the 
result of the impression of the folds of the corolla or of the stamens in the bud). 
Fruit an indehiscent berry, containing usually a single seed. — Tall, woody 
evergreen climbers. Leaves entire. Flowers small, in short dense racemes, 
cymes or clusters, either all axillary or the upper ones in a terminal leafless 
panicle. 
The genus consists of very few species, very nearly allied to each other, spread over tropical 
Asia. 
1. E. paniculata (flowers in panicles), Roxb.; PL Corom. ii. 81 t. 159 ; 
Benth. FI. Amtr. iv. 411. A very tall woody climber, the young branches under 
side of the young leaves and inflorescence more or less rusty-tomentose or villous, 
the adult foliage glabrous or nearly so. Leaves shortly petiolate, oval-elliptical, 
more or less acuminate, entire, coriaceous, mostly 8 to 4in. long. Flowers 
yellow, in short dense racemes or compact panicles, the lower ones often axillary 
and much shorter than the leaves, the upper ones forming, in the few Australian 
specimens seen, a small narrow terminal panicle, which, in the Indian ones, is 
usually large and much branched. Sepals orbicular, a little more than 1 line 
long, hairy outside. Corolla-tube scarcely so long as the sepals; limb spreading 
to 8 or 4 lines diameter, pubescent outside, the divisions deeply and broadly 
2-lobed. Filaments attached to the base of the tube ; anthers ovoid, acuminate, 
with rather long points. Berry in the Indian specimens ovoid, above Yin. long. 
— DC. Prod. ix. 464; Wight, Illustr. t. 180 ; Rheede, Hort. Mai. vii., t. 39. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J DaUacliy (without fruit). 
Widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago, and including probably some other 
described species, the differential characters in the whole genus being as yet very vague and 
uncertain. — Benth. 
Var. eoccineu, Bail. Bot. Bull. viii. “ Nangbro,’’ Cairns, E. Cowley. I find the colour of 
berry is very seldom recorded in the descriptions given of the species or varieties of this genus ; 
but in all cases where the berries of E. paniculata are spoken of they are said to be black, thus 
differing from this variety, in which they are, when fresh, described as of a pleasing 
cardinal-red colour ; and they were quite red when they reached my hands fr un Cairns. In 
form oval, about 4 to nearly fin. long, rather fleshy, containing a single seed Hab.: Kamerunga, 
Miss Cowley. 
2. ARGYREIA, Lour. 
(From the silvery covering of plants.) 
Scandent rarely sub-erect shrubs. Leaves from cordate-ovate to narrow- 
lanceolate, silky-hirsute or pubescent. Cymes sessile or pedunculate, capitate 
or corymbose. Flowers showy, purple or rose, rarely white. Sepals from 
orbicular to lanceolate, subequal, or the inner smaller, appressed to the fruit, 
often somewhat enlarged. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb plaited, very shortly 
lobed. Stamens included ; anthers oblong, never twisting. Ovary completely 
4-eelled, 4-ovuled ; disk annular, often prominent, as long as the ovary ; style 
filiform ; stigmas 2, sessile, globose. Fruit indehiscent, baccate or dry, hard or 
papery, 4 to 1-seeded. — Hook. FI. of Brit. Ind. iv. 184. 
1. A. speciosa (beautiful), Sweet. Hort. Brit. ed. ii. 373. An extensive 
climber, stems stout, white-tomentose. Leaves 6 to 12in. diameter, ovate- 
cordate, acute, glabrous above, persistently white-tomentose beneath, petioles 
long. Peduncles stout, 3 to Gin. long ; flowers subcapitate ; bracts large, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, thin, softly woolly, deciduous ; corolla 2 or 3in. long, 
