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long, beset with long setulose hairs. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 
purple with whitish folds, 2-25 in. long ; hairy externally. Stamens 
with filaments glandular-hairy at the thickened base. Berry ellipsoid, 
succulent, -75 in. long, -5 in. wide. Seed solitary. 
Malacca : Griffith, Maingay, Berry 318 ! Goodenough 1432 ! Peeak: 
Scortechini 297 ! 
A very distinct species. There is no fruiting specimen in Herb. Calcutta ; the above 
description of the berry is taken from the Flora of British India. 
4. Lettsomia Eidleyi, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 98. 
A large climber; branches sparingly hirsute. Leaves elliptic-acuminate, 
quite glabrous above, hirsute especially on the nerves beneath ; 5-5 in. 
long, 3-5 in. wide ; petiole 1 to 3 in. long, sparsely hirsute. Flowers in 
compact sub-capitate 8-10-flowered cymes 1-5 in. across, surrounded by 
large ovate-acute sessile foliaeeous persistent bracts hirsute below, quite 
glabrous above, -8 in. long, -25 in. wide ; braeteoles similar but smaller, 
•3 in. long ; peduncles 2 to 6 in. long, hirsute. Sepals sub-equal, ovate- 
lanceolate, externally pubescent, -3 in. long. Corolla pink, infundi- 
Duliform-campanulate, 1-25 in. long, tube hirsute externally. Berry 
ovoid, -5 in. long, -3 in. in diam., the sepals spreading from its base. 
Johoee : Kota Tinggi, Bidley 4214 ! Chin-chin, Lake & Kelsall ! 
Singapoee : Bukit Mandai, Bidley ! 
Vab. velutina, Prain l.c. Leaves beneath densely hirsute, as are the 
petioles, pedicels, and bracts externally. 
Singapoee : Bukit Mandai, Bidley ! 
Nearest to L. sphcerocephala, but distinguished by the acute bracts and braeteoles, 
nd to L. Maingayi, from which it differs by the smaller flowers and shorter bracts and 
sepals. Yak. velutina in foliage and tomentum remarkably resembles L. rubicunda, 
but the acute sepals and large persistent bracts and braeteoles amply distinguish it. 
5. Lettsomia adpeessa, Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat. II. 591. A scandent 
shrub; branches hirsute; stems 10 to 30 feet long. Leaves elliptic, 
softly hirsute on both surfaces ; base rounded or cuneate, apex acute ; 
length 4 to 5 in. ; width 2 to 2'5 in. ; petiole 1'5 in. long, softly hirsute. 
Flowers in axillary few-flowered, somewhat open cymes 2 in. across ; 
peduncles '5 to 1'5 in. long, hirsute ; bracts lanceolate, hirsute, -3 in. 
long, -15 in. wide, with an occasional longer leaf-like bract ; braeteoles 
small. Sepals -3 to '5 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, sparingly hirsute, 
spreading or sub-reflexed in fruit. Corolla tubular-campanulate, dull 
claret, or pale pink and white, or white with claret stripes, externally 
hairy ; tube l - 25 in. long. Berry ellipsoid, “5 in. long, '3 in. wide, at first 
green with a reddish tint, becoming bright pink, and at length, when 
quite ripe, reddish-brown. Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 196. 
