ee 
Lettsomia.] CONVOLVULACE. 741 
1374. ARGYREIA SPLENDENS ‘Sweet ; F. B. I. iv. 186. Lettsomia 
splendens F. I. i. 487. 
Chittagong. 
A large climber. 
1375. ARGYREIA SPECIOSA Sweet; F.B. Liv. 185; E. D. A. 1862. 
Lettsomia nervosa F. iL i. 488. 
In most of the prov 
An extensive duchees ‘Bow Bich-tarak, guguli; Hind. 
Samand 
1376. acsass ARGENTEA Choisy; F. B. I. iv. 185. Lettsomia 
argentea F, 89. 
E. Bengal ; ‘Gene 
A large climber. Vernac. Chota bich-tarak, samandar 
sok. 
1377. Arayrets RoxpurGuu Choisy var. aMpa ; F. B. I. iv. 185. 
Ipomea multiflora F. I. i. 499; F. B. I. iv. 215. 
N. B 
A considerable climber. 
633. Lettsomia Roxb. 
Scandent, more or gtesis hirsute or strigose shrubs ; leaves cordate 
or rounded. Flowers in axillary, peduncled, corymbose or capitate 
cymes ; bracts eth tare Sepals 5, orbicular or elliptic, some- 
what icra and coriaceous in fruit. Petals aM connate in a 
Disk eras or cup-shaped. Ca arpels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; 
le filiform; stigma 2-globose. Fruit a dry berry. 
Seeds 4 or doute embedded in mealy pulp. 
Anthers exserted ; corolla less than an inch long; leaves densely white- 
tomentose bene bella 
Anthers included ; corolla more than an inch long; leaves not white- 
ditty si 
tomentose bene 
Flowers corymbose ; bracts obovate, obtuse, half i inch long or sis 
adpressed-strigose, as are the sepals and the brane eto 
Flowers capitate ; bracts elliptic-oblong, an inch ong sparsely hig 
Sepals densely bristly, as are the branches. gosa. 
1378, Lerrsomra BELLA Clarke; F. B. I. iv. 192. 
ota Na 
gpur. 
A considerable climber. 
