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Perak : Batu Kuran, Scortcchini 1628 ! near Goping, King’s 
Collector 1077 ! Larut, King’s Collector 2622 ! near Ulu Kerling, King’s 
Collector 8627 ! Penang : Bateh Pulo, Deschamps ! Selangor : Woods 
at Gua Batu, Ridley 8210 ! 8227 ! 10194 !— Distrib. Burma, Tenas- 
serim, Sumatra, Java. 
Probably only a geographical form of Lettsomia strigosa , Roxb., which is widespread 
in Indo-China and extends to S. China. 
2. Lettsomia specerocephala, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
LXXIII. 2, 19. A shrubby climber ; branches irregularly angled, with 
ridged bark brownish on young shoots, pale straw-coloured on older 
twigs, sparingly beset with adpressed acicular hairs. Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, apex acute, base rounded, purplish beneath, very sparingly 
beset on both surfaces with adpressed hairs ; length 4 to 5 in., width 1*5 
to 2 in. ; petiole 1 to 1-25 in., sparsely pubescent above with adpressed 
hairs. Floivers in compact capitate globose cymes 1'5 to 2 in. across, on 
long slender peduncles 2 to 12 in. long, sparingly adpressed-pubescent, 
surrounded by large orbicular purple involucrant sessile bracts 1'5 in. 
across, sparsely hirsute externally, quite glabrous internally, the indi- 
vidual flowers enveloped in similar but smaller sub-orbicular to spathu- 
late bracteoles -5 in. long, -25 to -5 in. wide ; pedicels short adpressed- 
setose. Sepals glabrous externally except at their setose apices, the 
outer sub-acute, the inner wider obtuse -25 in. long. Corolla -75 to 1 in. 
long, infundibuliform-campanulate, pink, softly adpressed-hirsute exter- 
nally. Berry not seen. Argyreia splicer ocephala, Prain MSS. 
Perak : Krian, Abu Salama, Gunong Haran Ryah, Scortechini ! 
A very striking and remarkable species. The corollas do not appear to be full- 
sized. Scortechini, on the ticket of his Gunong Haran Ryah specimens, has written 
“ fruit from Maxwell’s Hill,” but unfortunately the fruiting specimens alluded to are 
not at Calcutta. 
3. Lettsomia Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 
195. A large slender climber ; branches slender or stoutish, with 
spreading setulose hairs. Leaves ovate or elliptic, base rounded or very 
shortly cuneate, apex acute or shortly caudate-acuminate, papery, 
glabrous and shining on both surfaces except for a few hairs on the 
midrib beneath; length 5 to 7 in., width 3 to 4 in. ; lateral nerves o to 7 , 
petioles -5 to 1 in. long, very sparsely setulose. Floivers in axillary 
few-flowered cymes 2 to 3 in. wide ; peduncles *25 to 2 in. long, rather 
closely hirsute with tawny spreading hairs ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1'5 
in. long, -6 in. wide, rather strongly parallel-nerved, sparingly hirsute 
externally, glabrous and dark purple within ; bracteoles similar but 
smaller, -3 in. long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, -75 in. 
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