1904.] D. Plain — 8o7ne new jplantn from Eastern Asia. 19 



straight, spreading, 12-15 pairs, rather distinctly looped along the 

 margin, prominent beneath, deeply impressed above as is the secondary 

 reticulate venation ; petiole '35 in. long, densely rusty- velvety. Flowers 

 in short axillary lacemes, sometimes clustered, of close-set 2-3-flowered 

 individual cymules ; the racemes 1-2 in. long ; peduncles, short pedicels 

 and small ovate bracts and bracteoles densely rusty- velvety. Sepals 

 orbicular, densely velvety outside, quite glabrous within, coriaceous, in 

 fruit 2 in. across. Corolla "5 in. across ; lobes slightly spreading, 

 glabrous v^ithin and waxy-white or yellow, narrow and deeply divided ; 

 interlobular spaces densely dark-brown, almost black- velvety pubescent 

 externally; lobules very small oblong. Frm'^ ellipsoid, 1"25 in. long, 1 

 in. in diam., densely softly velvety, of a rich brown colour. 

 Perak : Larut, Kunstler 3454 ! 3879 ! 6721 ! 



In the first of his three gatherings Kunstler has noted this as a tree 50-70 feet 

 high, but in the two subsequent ones as a large creeper, which is, from the appear- 

 ance of the specimens, undoubtedly the case with the first gathering also. 



LETTSOMIA Roxb. 



Lettsomia sphaerocephala Prain. A shrubby climber; branch- 

 es irregularly angled with ridged bark, brownish on young shoots, 

 pale-straw coloured on older twigs, sparingly beset with adpressed 

 acicular hairs ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, base rounded, purplish 

 beneath ; very sparingly beset on both surfaces with adpressed hairs ; 

 length 4-5 in., width l'5-2 in.; petiole 1-1*25 in., sparsely pubescent 

 above with adpressed hairs. Flowers in compact capitate globose cymes, 

 1*5-2 in. across, on long slender peduncles, 2-12 in. long, sparingly 

 adpressed pubescent ; surrounded by large orbicular purple iuvolucrant 

 sessile bracts, 1*5 in. across, sparsely hirsute externally, quite glabrous 

 internally, the individual flowers enveloped in similar but smaller, sub- 

 orbicular to spathulate bracteoles '5 in. long, •25-"5 in. wide ; pedicels 

 short, adpressed-setose. Sepals glabrous externally except at their 

 setose apices, the outer subacute, the inner wider obtuse, '25 in. long. 

 Corolla '75-1 in. long, infundibuliform-campanulate, pink, softly ad- 

 pressed-hirsute externally. Berry not seen. Argyreia sphaerocephala 

 Prain MSS. 



Pekak : Krian, Abu Salama, Gunong Harang Ryah, Scortechini ! 



A very striking and remarkable species. The corollas do not appear to be full- 

 sized. Scortechini, on the ticket of his Gunong Harang Ryah specimens, has 

 written "fruit from Maxwell's Hill" but unfortunately the fruiting specimens 

 alluded to are not at Calcutta, 



