8. Lbttsomia.] 80. CONVOLVULACE&. 



1. L. aggregata, Boxb. 



Branches, and leaves beneath, white-tomentose or woolly. 

 Fls. §" long rose, capitate with orbicular woolly sub-persis- 

 tent bracts J-|" long and ovate white tomentose sepals, 

 Fr. dry J" red and fruiting sepals red within. 



On the ghats Tainmarato Bnndu, Wood. 



L. glabrous above- Peduncles 0-2''. Closely allied to next. 



2. L. bellai Clarke. Jamu chalum, K. 



Branches and leaves beneath silkily white-tomentose. Fls. 

 j-V long funnel-shaped white with a crimson border, capitate 

 with spathulate or obloDg bracts |-£* long, and oblong or 

 elliptic densely white villous or hirsute sepals |-|" long in 

 flower and in fruit. Fruit dry §" diara. scarlet subtended 

 by the spreading hardened calyx which is deep red within and 

 white silky without. 



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Grassy glades in Singbhum, not uncommon. Gurhma, C. B. Clarke I 

 Palamau, Gamble ! Sirguja, Wood. 

 Fls. Aug -Sept. Fr. Dec-Jan. 



A very pretty plant both in flower and in fruit- L. sub -orbicular 

 or ovate cordate 2^-5" diam., obtuse to cuspidate, softly hairy above. 

 Petiole 2|-3£'' Peduncles 1-3". Corolla villous outside. Anthers exserted. 

 Seeds black glabrous. 



(The fruit breaks up irregularly like many Ipomseas, the epicarp is 

 papery, and the endocarp a white dry papery or pithy substance extending 

 between the seeds.) 



3. L. setosa, Boxb. 



A large handsome climber with milky juice, stems and 

 leaves beneath covered with adpressed hairs, flowers funnel- 

 shaped 1-1 J" diam with a short spreading purple limb, in 

 dense regularly branched long-peduncled corymbiform 

 cymes. Fruit an ovoid berry, 4-2-seeded. 



Bichia Burn and other mountains in Singbhum 2,000-3,000 ft. ; Kochang 

 Gamble ! Jaspur, Wooa : Sirguja, Clarke ! Fls. Oct.-Nov. 



L. cordate-ovate to cordate-oblong acute or acuminate 4" by 2" to 5" by 

 8", slightly hairy above, sec. n. 8-10 prs. Peduncles stout 3-5" and cymes 

 l£-3" diam. covered with adpreseed hairs. Bracts ailkily-hirsute large 



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