20O The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



2. A. speciosa. Elephant creeper. A very extensive climber, 

 leaves very large, heart-shaped or ovate, cordate ; flowers large, 

 rose-coloured in heads, with large white leafy bracts, berry dry, 

 4-celled, 4-seeded. Samudra shok, yugali. 



Bombay and elsewhere near the sea, common ; less so inland. 

 From Assam to Belgnm and Mysore. 



3. A. sericea. Very like the last, but not so large ; leaves 

 broad, heart-shaped, very white and silky below, bracts large 

 and leafy, enveloping the heads of flowers, which are hairy 

 outside ; berry orange-coloured, pulpy. Gave?. 



South Konkan and Ghauts. Matheran. 



A. argentea I took to be a variety of this. It is not in D. or ., 

 but I found it at Poona, and Dr. Dymock has the name Mhaisvel 

 for it. Peduncles leafy, bearing numbers of flowers at the end. 



4. A. mdlabarica. Very largo and woody, leaves heart- 

 shaped, slightly hairy, flowers in heads many together, very 

 large, white, with purple bottom. 



One of the handsomest of the order, confined in this Presidency 

 to the Ghauts, but abundant there from almost the beginning of the 

 ascent. Malabar and Coromandel (?) 



5. A. cuneata. An erect shrub, nearly smooth, leaves 

 obovate cuneate, nearly sessile, flowers deep purple, few 

 together, sepals ovate obtuse, bracts very small, berry oval, 

 with brown smooth outer shell, seated in the calyx. 



This differs in habit from all the large species of the order found 

 in this Presidency, and it can scarcely be called handsome. It is 

 common in some parts of the Deccan and near the Ghauts. Deccan 

 peninsula, common (IT.). 



* A. involucraia, nearly smooth, leaves large, ovate, pointed; 

 flowers in heads, large, rose-purple, sepals with scarious margins, 

 bracts large, oblong, persistent. Not in D. or 6r. Bombay, 

 Konkan, etc. (#.). 



3. LETTSOMIA. 



L. elliptica (Argyreia e. D.). Woody, leaves ovate, 

 elliptic, flowers in long-peduncled panicles, rose-coloured or 

 pale purple, with dark base, berry roundish, orange-coloured. 

 Bdndvel, Keddri. 



Common on the Ghauts. 



* L. aggregata (Argyreia a. D.). 'Hoary or woolly, leaves ovate 

 cordate obtuse; flowers in heads, small pink, bracts many roundish- 

 anthers exserted ; capsule round, red. S. M. country, Mr. Law (-D.)> 



