322 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Sepals ovate or orbicular, obtuse or rarely some of them 
emarginate ; bracts minute, usually caducous ; leaves 
glabrous above : — 
Sepals irregular, the three outer entire rounded, 
sparingly hairy, the two inner wider deeply emarginate, 
all closely embracing the base of the fruit ; leaves 
elliptic shortly acuminate, sparingly adpressed-pubescent 
beneath . . . . . . . . . . 6. L. Curtisii. 
Sepals regular or nearly so, all entire : — 
Corolla 1-5 to l - 75 in. long : — 
Sepals sub-equal, at length almost glabrous and 
somewhat spreading in fruit ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 
chartaceous, glabrous or very sparingly pubescent 
beneath .. .. .. ..7. L. penangiana. 
Sepals persistently adpressed grey-pubescent out- 
side, the inner rather larger than the outer, closely 
embracing the base of the fruit ; leaves ovate-acute, 
firm, sparsely hirsute with rusty hairs beneath . . 8 . L. Scortechinii. 
Corolla -5 to '75 in. long ; leaves elliptic acuminate ; 
sepals closely embracing the base of the fruit : — 
Leaves densely tawny-tomentose beneath ; sepals 
all softly tawny-velvety, the inner rather the 
smaller ; corolla -75 in. long . . . . 9. L. rubicunda. 
Leaves sparingly strigose-hirsute beneath ; sepals 
sub-equal, the outer pubescent, the inner at length 
almost glabrous . . . . . . . . 10. L. Kunstleri. 
1. Lettsomia peguensis, Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 193. 
A large climber, sometimes 50 feet long, with villous stems and 
branches. Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or sub-orbicular, apex acute, 
base cordate ; both surfaces densely softly hairy, tomentum fulvous but 
not acicular ; length 4 to 6 in., width P5 to 3'5, rarely 5 to 6 in. ; petiole 
1'5 to 4 in. long. Flowers in axillary capitate cymes ; peduncles 5 to 
9 in. long; bracts sub-persistent, densely softly hairy, elliptic-oblong, 
1 in. long. Sepals 5, the outer elliptic acute, rather larger than the 
inner lanceolate, densely hispid ; - 5 to '7 in. long. Corolla infundi- 
buliform-campanulate, softly sparsely hairy externally, 2 in. long ; limb 
and upper two-thirds of tube bright pink, base of tube nearly or quite 
white. Berry when ripe glossy brown, sub-globose, thin-walled, -25 in. 
across. Seeds usually 2 or 4. Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 
94. L. strigosa, Boxb. Hort. Beng. 13, ex Wall. Cat. sub. n. 1404. L. 
capitata, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 591. Argyreia capitata, Choisy in 
DC. Prod. IX. 332, partly and excluding var. (3. conferta : Kurz For. 
Flor. Burm. II. 216 mainly. Convolvulus strigosus, Wall. Cat. 1365/2, 
1365/c, and 1365/e partly. C. barbiger, Wall. Cat. 1404/1, 1404/2 in 
part. Argyreia barbigera, Choisy Convolv. Or. 42, and in DC. Prod. 
IX. 332. 
