Lettsomia.'] " ConvolvulacecB. 209 



4. I.ETTSOMZA, Roxb. 



Climbing scarcely twining shrubs, fl. large or small, 

 bracteate, in axillary cymes or solitary ; sep, 5, 2 much 

 broader than others, strongly imbricate, somewhat enlarged 

 and thickened in fruit ; cor. funnel-shaped, more or less 

 5-lobed ; stam. 5, exserted or included ; ov. surrounded by 

 annular disk, 2-celled, with two ovules in each cell, style 

 simple, stigmas 2, globose ; fruit fleshy, indehiscent, 1-4- 

 seeded. — Sp. 32; 21 in Fl. B. hid. 



Fl. \ in. long; stam. exserted . . . i. L. aggregata. 

 Fl. I in. or more long ; stam. included. 



L. oblong, hairy; fruit I in. . . .2. L. ELLIPTICA. 



L. oval, glabrous; fruit i in. . . .3. L. hancorni^folia. 



1. Ii. ag'greg'ata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13 (1814), var. osyrensis, 

 Clarke .^ I. c. 192. 



Argyreia aggregata^ Chois., Thw. Enum. 210. C. P. 1945. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 191. Wight, Ic. t. 1359. 



A large shrubby climber, branches very long, densely 

 white-tomentose ; 1. 3-5 in., ovate, shallowly cordate at base, 

 obtuse, apiculate, shortly hairy above, densely tomentose and 

 white or yellowish-white beneath, lat. veins prominent, petiole 

 i|-3 in., stout, cylindrical, tomentose ; fl. small, sessile in 

 threes, crowded in roundish capitate cymes, bracts large, 

 broad, truncate, silky-tomentose outside ; sep. oblong, obtuse, 

 densely silky-hairy outside ; cor. about \ in. long, funnel- 

 shaped, tube glabrous outside, lobes oval, erect, emarginate, 

 very hairy outside ; stam. much exserted ; style shorter than 

 stam.; fruit small, \-\ in., globose, smooth, red, surrounded 

 by the enlarged spreading, rather thick concave sep. which 

 are hairy without, glabrous and smooth within ; seeds 

 smooth, grey. 



In open places in the dry region; very common. Fl. Feb.-May; 

 flesh-pink. 



Also in S. India and Burma. 



2. !•. elliptica, Wight., Ic. iv. pt. 2, 12 (1850). 

 Argyreia elliptica., Chois., Thw. Enum. 210. C. P. 1933. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 192. 



Stems slender, nearly glabrous, woody below; 1. numerous, 

 closely placed on numerous short branchlets, 2-3 in., lanceo- 

 late-oblong, rounded at base, acute, sparsely hairy on both 

 sides, lat. veins numerous, very oblique, petiole slender 

 |-i in.; fl. rather large, on short ped., 3 in the cyme, bracts 

 caducous, peduncle usually shorter than 1.; sep. ovate, sub- 



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