LXXXVIII. CONVOLVULACETE, 259 



while the pknt, of which Woodrow (Jourii. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 170) gives 

 Mabable.shwar as the habitat and uaiues A. malabarica, is A. Houkeri, Clarke. 

 Triuien (Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 228) says that Rheede's plant has been referred by Moon to 

 Breweria cordata. 



18. LETTSOMIA, lioxh. 



Scandent more or less hairy shrubs. Leaves alternate, base rounded, 

 rhomboid or cordate, ilowers iu axillary pedunculate corymbose or 

 capitate cymes ; bracts usually conspicuous. Sepals 5, orbicular, elliptic 

 or oblong, often thickened and somewhat enlarged in fruit. Corolla 

 usually pink, tubular-iufundibulifoi-in ; limb plicate; lobes small. 

 Stamens 5, included or exserted ; anthers oblong or linear, not finally 

 twisted. Disk annular or cup-shaped. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 4; style 

 filiform ; stigma 2-globose. Pruit a dry berry. Seeds 4 or fewer, 

 embedded iu mealy pulp. — Distrib. East Asia and Tropical Africa ; 

 species 13. 



Stamens exserted = 1. L. aggrcgata. 



Stamens included. 



Corolla glabrous or nearly so ; fruit orange 2. L. elliptica. 



Corolla densely strigose ; fruit red 3. L. setom. 



1. Lettsomia aggregata, lio.vb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 13. A 

 climbing white- or yellowish-tomento&e shrub (sometimes procumbeut 

 or diffuse, Wight); stems softly tomeutose. Leaves 2-41 by l|-4 in., 

 ovate, usually obtuse, glabrous above, white- or yellowish-tomentose or 

 woolly beneath, base shallowly cordate ; main nerves prominent beneath ; 

 petioles 1-2 in. long, tomeutose, grooved. Flowers in dense capitate 

 cymes ; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 0-2^ iu. long, grooved, 

 tomeutose ; bi'acts large, broad, orbicular-ovate, \-\ in. long, densely 

 silky-tomentose outside, glabrous iuside, subpersisteut ; pedicels short 

 or 0. Sepals oblong-obtuse, g iu. long, densely silky-tomentose. Corolla 

 pink, rather more than | iu. long, tubular-campanulate ; tube glabrous, 

 I in. long ; limb -j^g- iu. long, deeply divided below the middle into 5 

 oblong emarginate lobes, each lobe furnished at the back with a densely 

 hairy band, the margius of the lobes beyond the bands tender. Stamens 

 and style much exserted. Pilaments densely hairy at the base, with 

 short stout hairs. Fruit |-^ iu. in diam., smooth, red, surrounded 

 by the enlarged, spreading, rather thick, concave sepals, which are hairy 

 outside, glabrous, red and smooth within. Seeds greyish-black, smooth. 

 El. B. I. V. 4, p. 191 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1359 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 3, 

 p. 209 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 249 ; Woodr. in Journ.' Bomb. 

 Nat. V. J 2 (1898) p. 171. Argijreia aggregata, Choisy, Convolv. Orient, 

 in Mem. Soc. Phys. Genev. v". G (lb34) p. 427 ; Grab. Cat. p. 128 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 169.— Flowers : Sept.-Dee. 



Konkan: Stocks], Law\ S. M. Countky: Law ex Graham, Dalscll tf" Gibson; 

 Belgaum, Bifchie, 4711 ; Dharwar, Tal/iof, Cooke I, Woodrow \ Kanaka: drier parts 

 of N. Kanara, Talbot; Kunqita, Woodrow I — Distkib. ladia (W. Peniiusula) ; 

 Ceylon. 



2. Lettsomia elliptica, Wight, Icon. v. 4, part 2 (1850) p. 12. A 

 large climber; young parts more or less pubescent; stems slender, 

 woody below. Leaves 2i— 4 by 1-|-2| in., often closely placed on 

 numerous short branches, elliptic-lanceolate, acu^e, nearly glabrous 



