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Caulis 0:07 em. diam., in sicco atropurpurea. Folia 0°6-0-7 em. 
‘2 cm. 
x 0°5 cm.; petioli complanati, 0-1- 
, 0-4 cm. 
Superantes, Gynophorus 0:2 em. long. Ovarium 1:0 cm. long., 
0°15 cm. di Stylus 0°75 cm., stigmata 0-2 cm. long. Semina 
0-08 em. long. 
Apparently near @. jilicaulis Hemsl., and so far as concerns the 
leaf, very like G. primuliflora Franch., but easily distinguished from 
this latter on a superficial view by the relatively long calyx-lobes. 
In the absence of a note as to the colour of the flowers, it is 
difficult to say what this is. Probably a pale mauve, such as one 
sometimes sees in the case of G. Amarella L. 
ConvoLvuLAceR. 
Lettsomia Melvillei, sp.nov. Scande 
dense fulvo-pubescente, foliis petiolatis rotundato-ovatis obtusis 
vel obtusissimis basi rotundatis levissimeque cordatis supra pilis 
strigosis adpressis presertim secus nervos exemptis glabris subtus 
ab. 
Major Melvilie. 
Foliorum maturorum lamina 10:0-13-0 cm. x 10-0-11:0 em., 
firme membranacea, subtus allidior; cost secundaria utrinque 
8-12, ascendentes, paucis basalibus majus approximatis et an 
recto es fere recto coste medie insertis, Cymarum pedunculus 
cm. 
basi 0°5 cm. faucibus 2-0 cm. diam. ; lobi humectati 0:65 cm. long. 
Filamenta 1-2 em. long., basi dilatata necnon barbellata; anthere 
: rs us O15 cm. alt. Ovarium ovoideum, circa 
O-4 cm. long. Stylus circa 1-0 em. long., glaber. 
_ _A plant somewhat like L. sctosa Roxb., but at once known from 
it by the few-flowered lax cymes and the very small calyces. 
fruit is seed to tre there is some doubt about the 
ity joerg sho referred, though everything points 
to its ultimately Proving a Lettsomia and not an Ipomea. 
Scropaunariacesz, 
_Lindenbergia Melvillei, sp.nov. Ramis ascendentibus crebro 
foliosis glanduloso-hirsnto- bescentibus dein glabrescentibus, foliis 
parvis breviter petiolatis anguste o atis brevit inati 
Serratis basi acutis pubescentibus m erulis, spicis t 
denbifitets 4006 dae sctegtends 0x puberulis, spicis 
icis terminalibus 
uto-pubescentibus, bracteis ovato- 
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