7. Aegtbbu.] 80. CONVOLVULACEJS. [8. Lettsomta. 



4-celIed, Disc annular often large. Fr. baccate or dry, 

 4-1-seeded. 



1. A. speciosa» Sweet. Kedok' arak', jSf. j Bistarak, 

 Beng. The Elephant Creeper. 



A large twiner with ovate-cordate leaves white silkily 

 tomento8e beneath and large light-purple flowers 2-3" diam. 

 sub-capitate on stout peduncles 3-10* long. 



Manbhum, Camp. 



Btems tomentose. L. 3-12'' glabrous above, long petioled. Bracts 

 up to H v ovate-lanceolate acute woolly. Bepah ovate woolly. Fr. f " 

 diam., brown-yellow nearly dry. 



The plant yields an oil. " The root is applied to the running sorei 

 on the legs and feet known in Santali as rasphutao. The leaves are 

 eaten, as a pot-herb," Camp. 



2. A. Daltonii Olarke. 



A large handsome climber with large ovate-oblong leaves 

 with adpreased yellowish hairs beneath and bright red-purpl© 

 flowers over 2|* diam. in 3-7-flowered cymes on stout 

 peduncles 1-5" long. 



Porahat plateau (in Singbhum) on the highest ridgea ; Jaspur, Wood. 

 Fls. Bept.-Oct. 



Btems adpressed-pubescent- L. reaching 8£ by 4 7 or even larger, base 

 rounded, not, or very slightly, cordate, petiole 1-2 7 . Cymes rather dense 

 with foliaceous persistent spathulate or linear-ob'lanceolate bracti 

 $~£" long. Pedicels short. Sepals f-f outer oblong, inner smal'er 

 lanceolate, silky. Corolla-tube H 7 with long soft hairs outside. B&ry 

 \" diam. 



8. Lettsomia, Roxb. 



More or less hairy climbing shrnbs with usually cordate- 

 based leaves and tubular-funnel-shaped flowers in axillary 

 bracteate peduncled densely corymbose or capitate cymes. 

 Sepals often somewhat enlarged in fruit. St. inclnded or 

 exserted. Ovary 2 -celled, disc annular often large. Fr. 

 indehiscent baccate or sometimes dry and papery, 4-1-seeded, 

 usually more or less enclosed in the persistent calyx, 



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