Lettsomia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, _ 487 
creeping to a very great extent over the sandy shores of the 
sea coasts, where the plant is chiefly found. Leaves long- 
petioled, deeply two-lobed, smooth, with two large coloured 
glands at the base. Peduneles axillary, wolltsey, length of 
the leaves, generally one or two-flowered. Flowers large, 
-red-purple. Calyz ; leaflets oblong, acute, transversely ru- 
- gose on the outside toward the base. Stigma of two round 
lobes. Seeds densely clothed with a dark brown, pane 
pubescence, 
Obs. This plant is very useful where it naturally grows, 
he] ping to bind the loose sands, and in time render it suffici- 
eit stable to bear fare. Goats, horses, and rabbits eat it, 
LETTSOMLA. R. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol from campanulate to infundibu- 
liform, Germ two-celled. Stigma two-lobed. Berry dry : 
or succulent, two-celled ; cells one or two-seeded, innag 
erect, curved ; centeleliak corrugated. 
In honour of John Coakley Lettsom, M. D. F. Ss. A. au- 
thor of numerous valuable works, which more than prove him. 
fell entitled to this mark of respect. ! 
- The genus is composed of very powerful, extensive, twin- 
ing, perennial, lactescent plants; with simple leaves and: 
axillary inflorescence. 
SECT. I. Corols campanulate. 
1. L, splendens. R. ' 
_ Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate-oblong, ocala, vein- 
ed, sericeous underneath. Corymbs axillary. — Berry high- 
‘ly coloured and embraced by the permanent crimson calyx, 
A most beautiful plant, far exceeding every other species 
I have yet met with ; a native of Chittagong, where it blos- 
suns an ripns its seeds at various times of the year, ; 
eee tae ‘ Ee Y ‘ oe? 
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