Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 325 



Convolvulus adpressus, Wall. Cat. 1424. Moorcroftia adpressa, Choisy 

 Convolv. Or. 49, and in DC. Prod. IX. 334. 



Penang : Porter ! Kunstler 1324 ! 5271 ! Curtis 318 ! Malacca : 

 Maingay ! Peeak : Scortechini 1280 ! King's Collector 2457 ! 5400 ! 

 Wray 1914 ! 3298 ! 3961 ! 



6. Lettsomia Cuetisii, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 100. 

 A climber with brown glabrous branches. Leaves elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, glabrous except for a few hairs on the midrib above, 

 sparingly adpressed-hirsute beneath ; length 4 to 5 in., width 2 '5 to 

 3 in. ; petiole 2 to 3 in. long, glabrous. Floiuers in axillary compound 

 sub-umbellate cymes, 3 in. wide, 12-16-flowered ; peduncles 4 to 10 in. 

 long, brown, glabrous ; bracts deciduous. Sepals coriaceous, -25 in. 

 long, the three outer sparingly hirsute, rounded, entire, the two inner 

 wider, deeply emarginate, glabrous. Corolla not seen. Berry ovoid, 

 succulent, -75 in. long, -5 in. wide, lower third closely embraced by the 

 sepals. 



Selangok : Kwala Lampar, Curtis 2158 ! 



A very distinct species, easily differentiated by its emarginate inner sepals. 



7. Lettsomia penangiana, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. III. 592. A 

 ■cHmber with very slender stems sometimes 100 feet long, young branches 

 thin, fulvous-tomentose, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, base rounded or cuneate, apex acute or sub-acute, papery, 

 medium green glabrous above, very light green and glabrous or 

 sparingly adpressed-pubescent and more closely hairy on the midrib 

 beneath ; 6 in. long, 2-5 in. wide ; petiole "5 to 1 in., glabrous. Floiuers 

 in lax axillary cymes 2 to 3 in. across, the terminal flower usually 

 longer than the others ; peduncles slender, 2 to 6 in. long, very sparsely 

 hirsute, soon glabrous ; pedicels "3 to '7 in. long, slender, hirsute ; bracts 

 minute. Sepals ovate-obtuse, sparingly hairy and at length glabrescent, 

 •2 in. long, at length spreading or sub-reflexed. Corolla tubular- 

 •campanulate, externally hirsute, bright claret or purple within, paler 

 without, 1"5 to 1*75 in. long. Berry ovoid, "6 in. long, -3 in. wide, rose- 

 pink, reddish-blue, or purple. Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 IV. 196; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 99. Convolvulus 

 penangianus, Wall. Cat. 1425. Moorcroftia penangiana, Choisy Convolv. 

 Or. 50, t. 4., and in DC. Prod. IX. 335. 



Penang : Porter ! Curtis 1586 ! Perak : very common ; Scorte- 

 chini 1147 ! Wray 2061 ! 2095 ! 2334 ! 2733 ! Curtis 2034 ! Derry ! 

 King's Collector 1936 ! 2048 ! 2574 ! 3223 ! 5339 ! 



Var. reticulata, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 100. Leaves 

 thicker, secondary nerves beneath very distinct. 



