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Pekak : Larut, King's Collector 8544 ! 
The leaves of this species are very characteristically glandular-punctate beneath. 
The peduncles and pedicels of vae. reticulata are rather shorter than in the type and 
the corolla, described by Ivunstler as “waxy white, pale blue inside,” is only two- 
thirds the length and only half the width of that of L. penangiana proper. But the 
leaves have the same characteristic glandular punetulation and are similarly 
sparingly adpressed-pubescent beneath, while the fruit, described by Kunstler as a 
rich pink, is indistinguishable from that of L. penangiana. This form, therefore, 
though very distinct, cannot yet be more than varietally separated. 
8. Lettsomia Scobtechinii, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 
98. A strong climber ; stems rusty-brown, very sparingly pubescent. 
Leaves ovate-acute, base rounded, firmly sub-coriaceous, very sparsely 
hirsute with scattered rusty hams beneath, glabrous above ; length 2 to 
3 in., width 1 to 2 in. ; petiole -5 to 1 in., minutely sparingly rusty- 
pubescent. Floivers in open 3-8-flowered corymbose cymes 1 to 1-5 in. 
across ; peduncles minutely sparingly rusty-pubescent, 2 to 5 in. long ; 
bracts caducous. Sepals orbicular, minutely adpressed-grey-tomentose 
externally, in flower -25 in., in fruit -3 in. across, the inner larger than 
the outer. Corolla P5 in. long, infundibuliform-campanulate, pink, 
densely adpressed-fulvous-tomentose on tube and bands of limb 
externally. Berry sub-spherical to ellipsoid, -5 in. wide, -5 to -75 in. 
long, the base closely embraced by the sepals. 
Pekak: Canfield’s Hill, 4,000 feet, Scortechini 381! Birch’s Hill, 
Ridley 10681 ! Maxwell’s Hill, Ridley 5559 ! 
As in the case of L. rubicunda, one or two bracts remain on the specimens ; they 
are small, orbicular, -2 in. across, but it does not follow that the fallen bracts were so 
small. The corollas on Scorteehini’s specimens, on which the original description was 
based, are about -6 in. long, but subsequent material communicated by Mr. Bidley 
(Ridley 5559) shows that the flowers originally described were not fully expanded. 
Another of Mr. Bidley’s specimens (10681) proves that the berry is not always sub- 
spherical. The species is obviously closely allied to L. rubicunda, but besides the 
very different degree of tomentum, L. Scortechini differs from L. rubicunda in having 
the inner sepals distinctly larger, instead of smaller, than the outer. 
9. Lettsomia rubicunda, Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 
195. An extensive climber ; stems fulvous-tomentose. Leaves elliptic, 
shortly abruptly acuminate or acute, base rounded, sub-coriaceous, 
densely tawny-tomentose beneath, glabrous above ; length 5 to 7 in., 
width 2 to 4 in. ; petiole tawny-tomentose, 1 to 2 in. long. Floivers in 
open many-flowered corymbose cymes, 2 to 4 in. across; peduncles 
tawny-tomentose, 3-5 to 7 in. long ; bracts caducous. Sepals orbicular, 
obtuse, softly tawny-velvety, in flower - 2 in., in fruit - 3 in. across, the 
inner rather smaller. Corolla ’75 in. long, infundibuliform-campanu- 
late, pink, densely tawny-tomentose externally. Berry ellipsoid, obtuse, 
