324 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



long, beset with long setulose hairs. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 

 purple with whitish folds, 2"25 in. long ; hairy externally. Stamens 

 with filaments glandular-hairy at the thickened base. Berry ellipsoid, 

 succulent, -75 in. long, -5 in. wide. Seed solitary. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maiiig ay, Derry B18\ Goodenough 14:32 \ Pebak: 

 Scortechini 297 ! 



A very distinct species. There is no fruiting specimen in Herb. Calcutta ; the above 

 description of the berry is taken from the Flora of British India. 



4. Lettsomia Eidleyi, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 98. 

 A large climber; branches sparingly hirsute. Leaves elliptic-acuminate, 

 quite glabrous above, hirsute especially on the nerves beneath ; 5*5 in. 

 long, 3 '5 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 3 in. long, sparsely hirsute. Floioers in 

 compact sub-capitate 8-10-flowered cymes 1"5 in. across, surrounded by 

 large ovate-acute sessile foliaceous persistent bracts hirsute below, quite 

 glabrous above, -8 in. long, "25 in. wide ; bracteoles similar but smaller, 

 •3 in. long ; peduncles 2 to 6 in. long, hirsute. Sepals sub-equal, ovate- 

 lanceolate, externally pubescent, '3 in. long. Corolla pink, infundi- 

 DuUform-campanulate, 1-25 in. long, tube hirsute externally. Berry 

 ovoid, -5 in. long, -3 in. in diam., the sepals spreading from its base. 



JoHOEE : Kota Tinggi, Bidley 4214 ! Chin-chin, Lake & Kelsall ! 

 Singapoee : Bukit Mandai, Bidley ! 



Var. velutina, Prain I.e. Leaves beneath densely hirsute, as are the 

 petioles, pedicels, and bracts externally. 



Singapore : Bukit Mandai, Bidley ! 



Nearest to L. splicerocepliala, but distinguished by the acute bracts and bracteoles, 

 nd to L. Maingayi, from which it differs by the smaller flowers and shorter bracts and 

 sepals. Vae. velutina in foliage and tomentum remarkably resembles L. ruhicunda, 

 but the acute sepals and large persistent bracts and bracteoles amply distinguish it. 



5. Lettsomia adpressa, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 591. A scandent 

 shrub ; branches hirsute ; stems 10 to 30 feet long. Leaves elliptic, 

 softly hirsute on both surfaces ; base rounded or cuneate, apex acute ; 

 length 4 to 5 in. ; width 2 to 2-5 in. ; petiole 1"5 in. long, softly hirsute. 

 Flowers in axillary few-flowered, somewhat open cymes 2 in. across ; 

 peduncles "5 to 1*5 in. long, hirsute ; bracts lanceolate, hirsute, "3 in. 

 long, -15 in. wide, with an occasional longer leaf-like bract ; bracteoles 

 small. Sepals -3 to '5 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, sparingly hirsute, 

 spreading or sub-reflexed in fruit. Corolla tubular-campanulate, dull 

 claret, or pale pink and white, or white with claret stripes, externally 

 hairy ; tube 1*25 in. long. Berry ellipsoid, -5 in. long, "3 in. wide, at first 

 green with a reddish tint, becoming bright pink, and at length, when 

 quite ripe, reddish-brown. Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 196. 



