490 _ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Lettsomia. 
Stems twining, perennial. Leaves petiolgd, broad-cordate, 
entire, with many parallel veins, as in C, ne, vosa ; the upper 
side pale green, with depressed hairs, the under side covered 
with much bright, silver-coloured, silky down; about four 
inches long each way. Petioles erect, round, hairy, length 
of ‘the leaves; at the apex on each side is a green gland, as 
in C. nervosus. Peduncles axillary, erect, round, hairy, 
umbel-bearing, Bractes lanceolate, silky. Flowers many, 
large, of a beautiful rich pink colour. WVectary, a fleshy - 
_ ring round the base of the germ. Stamens, base of the fila- 
ments woolly. Berry soft, and pulpy, four-seeded. 
‘Obs, The following marks distinguish this species — : 
ee to which it is nearly — 
~-Jst. The leaf-bearing umbel. 
2d, The bractes, In this species they are lanceolate, and 
not waved, in that oval and much waved. 
3d. The flowers of this species are larger, and the leaves 
much smaller than in that. 
- Ath. Here the veins are few, and alternate ; there me 
lange and opposite. 
5th. This produces a soft berry; that a perfectly dry cap- 
5. L, setosa, R. 
~ Perennial, twining, tender parts armed with adpressed bris- 
tles. Leaves round-cordate, acuminate, parallel-veined, scaly 
tinderneath. Peduncles panicled. Corols exactly campanu- 
late, with a small, sub-entire border, Berry: hid in the large, 
fleshy calyx. 
A native of the northern Circars, Flowetinge time the ae 
ay months of December and January. oa 
Stems ligneous, twining. Branches numerous ; young — 
saad clothed with stiff, short, silvery, adpressed bristles, 
Leaves © emer Fouad cordate, entire, acctiainiatess pe ae 
