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XCVII. CONVOLVULACE^E. 
[ Cuscuta. 
late with a ring of lobed scales in the mouth. Stamens 4 or 5, 
adnate to corolla. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4; styles 2 (or 1); 
stigmas 2. Fruit a globose or ovoid capsule. Seeds 2 to 4. 
Species 80, temperate tropical regions. 
(1) C. hygrophilee Pearson Ic. PL t. 2704; Prain, l.c. 286. 
Flower-heads -25 in. across. Sepals connate at base, *i in. 
long. Corolla *15 in. across, greenish white, campanulate; lobes 
ovate round. Stamens 5. Corolla-scales fimbriate. Styles 2. 
Fruit *15 in. across, top flat and depressed. Hab. Waste ground, 
parasitic on Hygrophila. Singapore, Payah Lebar, and Victoria 
Street. Johor town, near the saw-mills (Ridley). 
Prain thinks it is a form of C. chinensis, but the sepals are not keeled as 
in that species. 
2. ERYCIBE, Roxb. 
Climbing shrubs rarely erect. Leaves elliptic, coriaceous. 
Flowers small, white or yellow, in axillary and terminal panicles 
or racemes, usually tomentose. Sepals 5, orbicular coriaceous, 
tomentose. Corolla small; tube and triangular centre of lobes on 
back, dark brown-hairy; lobes obcordate 5. Stamens 5, included, 
adnate to throat; filaments short. Ovary globose, i-celled; 
ovules 4; stigma large, sessile globose or conic, 5- or 10-ridged. 
Fruit a pulpy or leathery drupe, ellipsoid or ovoid. Species about 
30, Indo-Malaya. 
Leaves pubescent beneath. 
Cymes dense panicled, long-peduncled, axillary . 
Cymes dense sessile, axillary; branches very 
thick; leaves 3 in. across . . . . 
Cymes dense sessile, axillary; leaves large oblan- 
ceolate; flowers yellow .... 
Panicle terminal; nerves and midrib only hairy. 
Panicles short dense axillary; leaves at length 
glabrous. 
Flowers numerous, racemed, hardly peduncled ; 
fruit oblong ...... 
Flowers few cymose; peduncles ’$ in. long; 
fruit globose ...... 
Leaves quite glabrous. 
Leaves very small, 1-75 in. long or less; flowers 
solitary axillary ..... 
Leaves medium; flowers in axillary cymes; 
corolla glabrous inside. 
Leaves thick coriaceous; fruit warty 
Leaves thin coriaceous; fruit scurfy 
Leaves 2*5 in. wide, thin coriaceous; nerves 7 to 
9 pairs ....... 
Leaves larger, stiff coriaceous, 6 or fewer; fruit 
over 1 in. long, oblong, smooth . 
Leaves thick coriaceous; corolla hairy inside 
Leaves large, over 3 in. across. 
Erect shrub; flowers few, nearly glabrous 
(1) E. strigosa 
(2) E. magnifica 
{3) E. citriniflora 
(4) E. expansa 
(5) E. Princei 
(6) E. malaecensis 
{7) E. leueoxyloides 
(8) E. senea 
(9) E. Griffithii 
(10) E. festiva 
(n) E. sapotacea 
(12) E. prsecipua 
(13) E. glomerata 
