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Sepals ovate or orbicular, obtuse or rarely some of them 

 emarginate ; bracts minute, usually caducous ; leaves 

 glabrous above : — 



Sepals irregular, the three outer entire rounded, 

 sparingly hairy, the two inner wider deeply emarginate, 

 all closely embracing the base of the fruit ; leaves 

 elliptic shortly acuminate, sparingly adpressed-pubescent 

 beneath . . . . . . . . . . 6. Z/. Curtisii. 



Sepals regular or nearly so, all entire : — 

 Corolla 1-5 to 1-75 in. long : — 



Sepals sub-equal, at length almost glabrous and 

 somewhat spreading in fruit ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 chartaceous, glabrous or very sparingly pubescent 

 beneath . . . . . . . . 7. L. penangiana. 



Sepals persistently adpressed grey-pubescent out- 

 side, the inner rather larger than the outer, closely 

 embracing the base of the fruit ; leaves ovate-acute, 

 firm, sparsely hirsute with rusty hairs beneath . . 8. L. Scortechinii. 

 Corolla "5 to -75 in. long ; leaves elliptic acuminate ; 

 sepals closely embracing the base of the fruit : — 

 Leaves densely tawny-tomentose beneath ; sepals 

 all softly tawny-velvety, the inner rather the 

 smaller; corolla -75 in. long .. ..9. L.rubicunda. 



Leaves sparingly strigose-hirsute beneath ; sepals 

 sub-equal, the outer pubescent, the inner at length 

 almost glabrous . . . . . . . . 10. L. Kunstleri. 



1. Lettsomia pbguensis, Clarke in Hook. f. Mor. Brit. Ind. IV. 193, 

 A large cliraber, sometimes 50 feet long, with villous stems and 

 branches. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or sub-orbicular, apex acute, 

 base cordate ; both surfaces densely softly hairy, tomentum fulvous but 

 not acicular; length 4 to 6 in., width 1-5 to 3*5, rarely 5 to 6 in.; petiole 

 1'5 to 4 in. long. Floiuers in axillary capitate cymes ; peduncles 5 to 

 9 in. long; bracts sub-persistent, densely softly hairy, elliptic-oblong, 

 1 in. long. Sepals 5, the outer elliptic acute, rather larger than the 

 inner lanceolate, densely hispid ; -5 to -7 in. long. Corolla infundi- 

 buliform-campanulate, softly sparsely hairy externally, 2 in. long ; limb 

 and upper two-thirds of tube bright pink, base of tube nearly or quite 

 white. Berry when ripe glossy brown, sub-globose, thin-walled, -25 in. 

 across. Seeds usually 2 or 4. Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 

 94. L. strigosa, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 13, ex Wall. Cat. sub. n. 1404. L. 

 capitata, Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat. II. 691. Argyreia capitata, Choisy in 

 DC. Prod. IX. 332, partly and excluding var. /3. conferta : Kurz For. 

 Flor. Burm. II. 216 mainly. Convolvulus strigosus, Wall. Cat. 1365/2, 

 1365/c, and 1365/e partly. C. barbiger, Wall. Cat. 1404/1, 1404/2 in 

 part. Argyreia barbigera, Choisy Convolv. Or. 42, and in DC. Prod. 

 IX. 332. 



