496 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Lettsomia, 
This species is very common in forests over the southern 
parts of the Carnatic, and Tanjore country. Flowering time 
the cold season. 
_ Stem twining, woody, running over high trees, &e. Young 
shoots hoary. Leaves petioled, broad-cordate, or reniform, 
entire,with the under side downy, particularly while young ; 
from one to two inches each way. Petioles the length of the 
leaves, having two glands laterally at the extremity. Pedun- - 
eles axillary, solitary, length of the petioles, one-flowered. 
Flowers large, pure white, opening at sun-set, and drooping 
at sun-rise. Bracies two, near the top of the peduncles. 
Tube long, slender, cylindric, Nectary a yellow, fleshy — 
ring surrounding the base of the germ, Stigma two-lobed. 
Lobes \inear-oblong, erect. Berry spherical, dry, smooth, 
shining, brown, one-celled, Seeds ; from one to four is the 
natural number, immersed in a brownish farinaceous pulp. 
12. L, ornata. R. 
Shrubby, erect, ultimately twining. ‘Gagvas pain: conde 
entire, with large round Jobes, sericeous underneath. Pedun- 
eles many-flowered. . Stigma with two lanceolate lobes. 
Berry ary, oblong, beaked, shorter than the calyx. 
A native of the interior parts of India; from Cawnpore 
Colonel Hardwicke sent the plants to the Botanic oule at 
Calcutta, where they blossom during therains. .. _- 
«Stems . aaah penherermas Hagcid, ising ever aieik 
Leaves analy pace suclinn lobes senda: 1 
tire ; apex rather emarginate ; smooth above, of a dull livid 
plone: underneath, and somewhat sericeous; general size 
from three to six inches each way. Petioles round, serice- 
ous, shorter than the leaves, with a greenish gland on each 
side near the apex as in all the other = pamelor 
ee axillary, as as aan ales etioles, a 
