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Lettsomia.] CI. CONVOLVULACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 198 
9 L. Thomsoni, Clarke; leaves ovate-lanceolate cordate sparsely 
strigose on both surfaces, peduncles scattered mostly as long as the petioles, 
flowers capitate, bracts 4-4 in. spathulate-oblong sparsely villous caducous, 
sepals 3—3 in. ovate acute densely patently hirsute. Argyreia capitata, Brand. 
For. Fl. 343, not of Chois. 
SUBTROPICAL Hrwarava, alt. 0-4000 ft., from Gurwhal to Sikkim, common; 
Royle, Thomson, J. D. H., &c. 
Seandent; stems sparsely villous. Leaves ő by 2} in., acuminate; petiole 2 in. 
Peduncles 2-5 in. ; bracts shorter than, and much less hirsute than the sepals, some- 
times subpersistent. Sepals with soft fulvous hairs 1-4 in. long, in fruit coriaceous 
slightly enlarged. Corolla nearly 2 in., rose-purple, hirsute without. Capsule 
usually 4-2-seeded. 
„7. L. hirsutissima, Clarke; leaves ovate-cordate acute softly dusky 
villous on both surfaces, peduncles short collected towards the ends of the 
branches, flowers capitate, bracts 4 in. oblong villous deciduous, sepals 4—4 in. 
elliptic acute densely patently hirsute. Convolvulus hirsutissimus, Wall. Cat. 
Argyreia capitata 8 conferta, Chois. in DC. Prodr. ix. 332. 
Sixxrr Hrmaraya, alt. 5000 ft. ; Tendong, Clarke.—Distri. Ava. 
. Perhaps only a villous mountain form of L. Thomsoni. Leaves villous or almost 
silky. Peduneles 3-2 in., rigid, forming as it were a narrow terminal dense panicle. 
. & L. strigosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. 
li. 80; leaves cordate suborbicular suddenly short acuminate sparsely hispid on 
th Surfaces, peduncles long, flowers capitate, bracts 1 in. elliptic-oblong 
sbarsely hispid persistent, sepals unequal smaller than the bracts densely bristle- 
hispid. L, capitata, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 591. Convolvulus strigosus, Wall. 
Cat. 1365, type sheet. O. capitatus, Vahl Symb. iii. 28. CO. capitiformis, Porr. 
- Suppl. ii. 469. Ipomæa capitata, Roem. § Sch. Syst. iv. 238, not of 
i Argyreia capitata, Chois. Convolv. Or. 41, and in DC. Prodr. ix. 332, 
, Bencat Prarn, and Assam, common; extending into subtropical valleys of the 
adjacent mountains.—Disrris. Java. . 
Powerful climber; branches hispid. Leaves 5 by 4} in., usually very obtuse, 
rered with needle-like fulvous long straight patent hairs, as is nearly the whole 
Plant ; petiole 2 in. Peduncles 2-4 in.; bracts much less copiously bristly than the 
S. Sepals 3-3 in.; outermost elliptic, inner almost linear, coriaceous in fruit. 
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Corolla 2 in, purple, hispid without. Capsule } in., papery, usually 4-2-seeded. 
9. Ie pe e; 1 late cordate densely softly 
; * Deguensis, Clarke; leaves ovate-lanceolate r softly 
hairy on both surfaces, peduncles long, flowers capitate, bracts 1 in. elliptic- 
oblong softly densely hairy subpersistent, sepals unequal smaller than the bracts 
ey, hispid, Argyreia capitata, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 216; Choisy in DC. 
7. ix. 332, chiefly. Convolvulus strigosus, Wall. Cat. 1365, partly. 
Haja asu Burma, common; Griffith, Parish, &c. Tavov; Wallich. ANDAMANS, 
Perhaps only a marked local variety of L. strigosa, as Choisy and a poe 
esteemed it: i . 1 t 
iu; 18 very constant in its characters and general aspect. 
Woolly, Without the needle-like hairs of L. strigosa. Leaves gradually narrowed 
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pw Corolla softly sparsely hairy without. 
l0. L. barbi 
i . era, Clarke; leaves ovat ( . 
hirsute n both surfaces, peduncles long, flowers capitate, —€— bd ev sube 
TsIstent, sepals ovate and elliptic longer than the A y 
Patently hirsute. Convolvulus barbiger, Wall. Cat. 1404. Pharbitis barbigera, 
OL, Iy, 
e-lanceolate cordate sparsely 
