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smooth, dry, -75 in. long, -3 to '5 in. wide, the base closely embraced by 
the sepals. Convolvulus rubicundus, Wall. Cat. 1409. Argyreia rubi- 
cunda, Choisy Convolv. Or. 44, and in DC. Prod. IX. 333. 
Malacca: Griffith! Mamgay. — Distrib. Burma. 
The above description is taken from Griffith’s Malacca plant ; the writer has seen 
no other specimens. One or two bracts remain ; they are small, -2 in. across, and 
orbicular, but it does not follow that the fallen bracts were so small. There is no 
perfect corolla on the specimens at Calcutta ; the length of the tube given above is 
derived from Mr. C. B. Clarke’s description. 
10. Lettsomia Kunstleri, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2, 
100. A slender climber, 50 to 80 feet long, young branches densely 
hirsute. Leaves elliptic-acuminate, glabrous and shining above, 
sparingly strigose-hirsute beneath, especially on the nerves, occasionally 
the midrib above sparsely hairy ; length 3'5 to 4'5 in., width 2 to 2 - 5 in.; 
petioles densely hirsute, 1 to 1'5 in. long. Flowers in lax axillary 
12-20-flowered cymes, 2 to 3 in. across ; peduncles 5 to 8 in. long, 
densely hirsute ; bracts hirsute, 3 in. wide ; pedicels hirsute, slender, 
•5 to - 75 in. long. Sepals orbicular, sub-equal, the three outer 
pubescent, the others at length almost glabrous, '15 in. long. Corolla 
white externally, bright pink or red within, externally hirsute, tubular- 
campanulate, '5 in. long. Barry ovoid, - 5 in. long, -3 in. wide, deep 
glossy red. 
Perak : Larut ; Kota, Wray 2856 ! Ulu Salama, Scortechini ! 
Goping, Chanderiang, &e., King’s Collector, 732 ! 2307 ! 2726 ! 5672 ! 
Campon Boad, Bidley 9704 ! Selangor : Batu Caves, Bidley 8220 ! — 
Distrib. Sumatra. 
Order LXXXII. SOLANACEJE. 
[By D. Prain.] 
Herbs or shrubs, sometimes becoming small soft-wooded trees. 
Leaves alternate or at times in unequal pairs, rarely clustered, never 
truly opposite, entire, lobed or pinnate ; stipules 0. Inflorescence of 
terminal or oftener lateral axillary or extra-axillary cymes, or of 
solitary or clustered pedicels, without bracts or bracteoles. Flowers 
regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, lobes or teeth 
usually 5, rare 4 or 6 to 10 ; usually persistent, sometimes enlarged in 
fruit. Corolla gamosepalous 5-lobed or rarely ( Datura ) 10-lobed or 
with limb sub-entire ; narrow-campanulate to rotate. Stamens 5, 
epipetalous ; anthers oblong or narrow-ovate ; cells parallel, dehiscing 
by apical pores or longitudinally. Ovary 2-celled or imperfectly 
