30 pfeNtfANDRiA moxogynia. Leitsomia. 



5. L. setosa, li.* 



Perennial, twining, tender parts armed with adpressed bristles* 

 Leave* round-cordate, acuminate, parallel-veined, scaly underneath* 

 Peduncles panicled. Cords, exactly campanulate, with a small, sub- 

 entire border. Berry hid in the large, fleshy calyx. 



A native of the northern Circars. Flowering time the cool dry 

 months of December and January. 



Stems ligneous, twining. Branches numerous; young shoots. 

 clothed with: stiff, short, silvery, adpressed bristles,— Leaves petioled^ 

 round-cordate, entire, acuminate ; veins parallel, elevated, and sim- 

 ple ; the upper surface smooth, deep green, the under one Xvhitish^ 

 with numerous minute, pellucid scales, and a few remote, adpressed, 

 stiff hairs; from two to eight inches long, and nearly the same in 

 breadth. — Petioles considerably shorter than the leaves, bristly- — 

 Panicles axillary, solitary, long-peduncled, corymbiform. Peduit' 

 cits and ramifications whitish, with numerous, adpressed, whitish, 

 bristles. — Flowers numerous, pretty large, sessile on the ramifi- 

 cations of the panicle, pink-coloured. — Bract es several round tha- 

 base of each calyx, like a calycle, oval, concave, rigid, bristly = — Calyx; 

 leaflets oval, obtuse, nearly equal, permanent; the outside bristly. — 

 Tube of the corol exactly campanulate, the outside somewhat bristly. 

 Border almost entire, spreading. — Germ, the lower half invested in 

 a large yellow ring. Style about as long as the stamina. Stigma of 

 two round lobes. — Berry ovate, smooth, shining red, hid within the- 

 leaflets of the permanent calyx. 



6. L. strigosa, R.f 



Perennial, twining, every part covered with harsh brown hairs. 

 Leaves cordate, entire, with many parallel nerves. Peduncles elon- 

 gated. Flowers aggregate. 



* I. strigosa, Roth, in Sjst. Veg. 1. cit. 242 ?— N. W. 



t Cnnv. capitatus,\ahh Symb. ill- 28, (Ipom. Syat. Ve». I. cit. 238) may pevliapsbe 

 this species.— N. W. 



