Lettsomia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _ 491 
cid scales and a few remote, adpressed, stiff hairs ; from two 
_ to eight inches long, and nearly the same in breadth. Peti~ 
oles considerably shorter than the leaves, bristly. Panicles 
axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, corymbiform. Peduncles 
and ramifications whitish, with numerous, adpressed, whitish 
bristles, Flowers numerous, pretty large, sessile on the ra- 
mifications of the panicle, pink-coloured. Bractes several 
round the base of each calyx, like a calycle, oval, concave, 
rigid, bristly. Calyx ; leaflets oval, obtuse, nearly equal, 
permanent; the outside bristly. Tube of the corol exactly 
campanulate, the outside somewhat bristly, Border almost 
entire, spreading, Germ, the lower half invested in a large 
yellow ring. Style about as long as the stamina, Stigma 
of two round lobes. Berry ovate, smooth, shining red, Hid 
within the leaflets of the permanent calyx. ) 
_6.L. striyosa. R, 
Perennial, twining, every part ceed with harsh brown 
hairs. Leaves cordate, entire, with many parallel nerves. Pe- 
duncles elongated. Flowers aggregate. 
A native of the eastern part of Bengal, ia from thenee 
sent to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, by Dr. Buchanan, 
Blossoms about the close of the rains, 
Stem woody, twining up, and over high trees. Bark rough, 
Young shoots very hairy. Leaves alternate, petioled, cor- 
date, entire, nerves many, and parallel, very hairy on both 
sides; from four to six inches long, and three or four broad, 
Peduncles axillary, round, hairy, longer than the petioles, 
each supporting a few large, sessile, rose-coloured, ¢ cam anu~ 
late flowers, surrounded with many broad-lanceolate h ui 
bractes. Stigma of two, » Ine globular Oe ees 
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| en ni l inf ae. ‘cunéato-emarginate ; villous 
wrleesith Peduncles three-flowered, much shorter than 
