496 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. LettSOmici. 



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, &c. Young 

 shoots hoary. Leaves petioled, broad-cordate, or reniform, 

 entire, with the underside 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- 

 cles axillary, solitary, length of the petioles, one-flowered. 

 JFloivers large, pure white, opening at sun-set, and drooping 

 at sun-rise. Bractes two, near the top of the peduncles. 

 Tube long, slender, cylindric. Nectary a yellow, fleshy 

 ring surrounding the base of the genu. Stigma two-lobed. 

 Lobes linear-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. Leaves nearly round, 

 entire, with large round lobes, sericeous underneath. Pedun- 

 cles many-flowered. Stigma with two lanceolate lobes. 

 Berry dry, oblong, beaked, shorter than the calyx. 



A native of the interior parts of India ; from Cawnpore 

 Colonel Hardwicke sent the plants to the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta, where they blossom during the rains. 



Stems sub-herbaceous, flaccid, scarcely ever twining, 

 sometimes sericeous. Branches few, and like the stems. 

 Leaves nearly round, posterior lobes rounded ; margins en- 

 tire ; apex rather emarginate ; smooth above, of a dull livid 

 colour 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 species of this family. 

 Peduncles axillary, as long as the petioles, and like them 

 bearing from about six to twelve, very large, pure white 

 flowers, nearly resembling those of Ipomoea graudifiora and 



