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Peeak : Batu Kuran, Scortechini 1628 ! near Goping, King's 

 Collector 1077 ! Larut, King's Collector 2622 ! near Ula Kerling, Kijig's 

 Collector 8627 ! Penang : Bateh Pulo, Deschanips ! Selangob : Woods 

 at Gua Batu, Ridley 8210 ! 8227 ! 10191 !— Distrib. Burma, Tenas- 

 serim, Sumatra, Java. 



Probably only a geographical form of Lettsomia strigosa, Eoxb., which is widespread 

 in Indo-China and extends to S. China. 



2. LETTSOiiiA sphjerocephala. Pram Journ. As. See. Beng. 

 LXXIII. 2, 19. A shrubby climber ; branches irregularly angled, with 

 ridged bark brownish on young shoots, pale straw-coloured on older 

 twigs, sparingly beset with adpressed acicular hairs. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, apex acute, base rounded, purplish beneath, very sparingly 

 beset on both surfaces with adpressed hah's ; length 4 to 5 in., width 1-5 

 to 2 in. ; petiole 1 to 1"25 in., sparsely pubescent above with adpressed 

 hairs. Flowers in compact capitate globose cymes 1"0 to 2 in. across, on 

 long slender peduncles 2 to 12 in. long, sparingly adpressed-pubescent, 

 surrounded by large orbicular purple involucrant sessile bracts 1"5 in. 

 across, sparsely hii'sute externally, quite glabrous internally, the indi- 

 vidual flowers enveloped in similar but smaller sub-orbicular to spathu- 

 late bracteoles 'O in. long, -25 to -5 in. wide ; pedicels short adpressed- 

 setose. Sepals glabrous externally except at their setose apices, the 

 outer sub-acute, the inner wider obtuse '25 in. long. Corolla "75 to 1 in. 

 long, infundibuliform-campanulate, pink, softly adpressed-hirsute exter- 

 nally. Berry not seen. Argyreia splicer ocepliala, Prain MSS. 



Perak : Krian, Abu Salama, Gunong HaranEyah, Scortechini! 



A very striking and remarkable species. The corollas do not appear to be full- 

 sized. Scortechini, on the ticket of his Gunong Haran Eyah specimens, has written 

 " fruit from Maxwell's Hill," but unfortunately the fruiting specimens alluded to are 

 not at Calcutta. 



3. Lettsomia Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 

 195. A large slender chmber ; branches slender or stoutish, with 

 spreading setulose hairs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, base rounded or very 

 shortly cuneate, apex acute or shortly caudate-acuminate, papery, 

 glabrous and shining on both surfaces except for a few hairs on the 

 midrib beneath; length 5 to 7 in., width 3 to 4 in. ; lateral nerves 5 to 7 ; 

 petioles "O to 1 in. long, very sparsely setulose. Floiuers in axillary 

 few-flowered cymes 2 to 3 in. wide ; peduncles -25 to 2 in. long, rather 

 closely hirsute with tawny spreading hah's ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1*5 

 in. long, -6 in. wide, rather strongly parallel-nerved, sparingly hksute 

 externally, glabrous and dark purple within; bracteoles similar but 

 smaller, -3 in. long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, '75 in. 



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