742 BENGAL PLANTS. (Lettsomia. 
1379. Lettsom1a sETOSA Roxb.; F. 1. i. 490; F. B. I. iv. 194. 
Behar ; Chota Nagpur. 
A large climber. 
1880. Lretrrsom1a stRIGOSA Roxb.; F.I. i. 491; F. B. I. iv. 193. 
N. Bengal; C. Bengal; E. Bengal; Tippera; Chitta- 
gong. - 
A powerful climber. 
Order XCI. SOLANACEA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, often in 
unequal pairs, rarely clustered, never opposite, entire, lobed, or 
innate; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, very rarely 
dicecious, in terminal or lateral axillary or extra-axillary cymes, OF 
on solitary or clustered pedicels ; bracts 0; bracteoles 0. Sepals 
connate in an inferior* calyx; limb 5-, rarely 3-7-lobed or toothed, 
persistent, often accrescent. Petals connate in a funnel-shaped, 
cam prea or rotate, often Bh corolla; lobes 5, rarely 10, or 
limb suben amens 5, e to corolla-tube ; anthers ovate 
or ries? : aie twitteas longitudinal or fe porous. 
Carpels usually 2, connate in a 2-celled or imperfectly 1-celleé or 
4-celled ovary, very rarely ovary 3-5-celled ; ovules very many on 
prominent, peltate placentas ; style linear; stigma capitate or very 
shortly lobed. Fruit a berry or a circumscissile or valved cap- 
sule, usually 2-celled, always many-seeded. Seeds compressed, 
coid, or subreniform, with embryo peripheric, or occasionally 
seeds hardly compressed and embryo straight. 
*Fruit indehiscent, a berry with many compressed, subdiscoid seeds ; 
embryo curved or subspiral; corolla-lobes ar or valvate :—[p. 743] 
+Corolla rotate or wide-campanulate :-— ] 
Anthers connivent in a cone, longer than sa filaments, not dehiscing 
ey aoc entk their length :— 
rs dehiscing introrsely by longitudinal slits, a tips omy ; 
— pinnatisect 
Anthers dehiscing by apical pores or by short apical a ist 
entire, lobed or pinnatifid anum. 
Anthers not scaleekit | in a cone ma not longer than the haeanle: 
dehiscing throughout their length by lateral slits; flowers pedi- 
celled :— 
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