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^a-l XLIII. AMPELIDEiE. (M. A. LawsoD.) 667 



Ia Staphylea. JRoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 658 ; W. & A. Prodr. 132; Wall. Cat. 6624 



■ %fP^ . «. «^« 9 ; Wight Ic. 78 ; III. i. 58 ; Balz. <S: Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 41 ; 



ittwaites Anum. 64. Aquilicia sambucina, Linn. Mant. 211 : Cav. Diss. 7, 



I'-a r^ ^- *^"^^^^' ^^^^- ^^^'^- ^' 275. GiliberfiA nakgu, DU. Prodr. iv. 

 ^i6. Gustonia nalugu /%-ertQf. .SVs^. ii. 440. Ottilis zevla nica, Ga^tn. 



^«c«. L t. 57.J Staphylea indica, Burm.Fl. Ind. t. 24, i.\—R}ieede Hort. 



•'«(M. u. 43, t. 26. • < .-:- . :. ■ ; 



Common throughout the hotter parts of Ixdia, irotn the ITiMAtirA as far west as 

 A-umaon, to Binna, and southwards to Ceylon and Malacca. — Distrib. Malay 

 ^l^ds, China, Philrpnine Islands, Australia,:. " ,^r ■:^" -v..-^ ^-^ - v* - ' 

 1 ft '"f shrubbj, with straight branches. Xeam pmnate or tripmnale often 3J by 



ft. ; leaflets stalked, very variable in size and shape ; nerves arcuate. Flowers 

 greenish-white.^ Anthers connate. Fruit the size of a small cherry, dry. — Wight and 

 Arnott discriminate two varieties, depending for their characters upon the texture ©r 

 tneir leaves, the size of their flowers, and the nature of the staminabtubes ; but the 

 "•ansitional conditions between them are so numerous, that they cannot be maintained. 



y- mquata^ DO. Prodr, i. 635, with pubescent stems and leaves, belongs probably to 

 -t/. hirta or L. rohusta. A specimen of GriffithX from Assam, with oblong acuminate 



snai-piy and finely serrate leaflets aii^ prominent parallel straight nerves, is probably 



: Zeaves pubescent v" '" . • ' , 



,. 12. l. Integrrifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I 659; leaflets 6-8 by 2-3 in. 



^^ar-lanceolate or lanceolate acuminate entire or very alightly serrate 

 glabrous above slightly downy beneath. W. & A. Prodr. 132. 



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r* ESTERN Peninsux^a ; moist valleys in the Circars, Roxburgh. 



Subarbofeons. Xeare.9 supra-decompound, about 30 in. both ways. CJ^e* soj^ra-, 

 decompound, large, subcorymboae. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx. Staminc^' 

 *^oe cylindric, the grooves running almost to the line of union with the corolla. Lobes 

 ^arginate. JfnfAers oblong, pointeJ,'cohnatel— I have 'sirth no specimen, neithei* had 

 "'Jght and Arnott, whose emended description of Roxburgh I follow. -^^ "■- ,"^* : ^ ^ 



13. Zi. robusta/^0^5. Fl. Ind. I 655 ; leaflets 6-12 by 2|-6iri. bvatedi* 

 ]***te"lanceolate cuspidate serrate glabrous above pubescent on the veins 

 5^neath, cymes compact, bracts large persistent. }f.£ A. Prodr. 132; 

 l<Al.Cat. 6826. L. aspera. Wall. Cat. m^by in part. L. compactiflora, 

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SiKKiM Himalaya and Khasia Mts., alt. 1-5000 ft., JT./ ^ T./ Martabaw, kurz; 

 Western Peninsula, in the Northern Circars, -Bo.r&Mr<7A. V^ '^ - 

 .-* large fobust shrub, 5-6 ft. Stems stout, the older parts glabrous, the younger 

 ^^^ered with a harsh coarse short pubesoMice. Leaves 1-3 ft. long, often broader. 

 ^acts 4^1 in., lanceolate. Flowers larger than in the other species. Anthers connate. 

 <mit black, succulent, the size of a small chenr— Although Roxburgh describes the 

 yy^es as supra-decompound and the bracts as linear and caducous, I beheve that tb)8 



^B the species he intended, ,..,'>■. J,--/' ; ;. \.^U f-* ' . 





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, • !•. diffusa, Laws.; young parts covered With a short th n 

 Pabescence, leaflets 5-12 by 2-5 in. shortly stalked acuminate serrate dark- 

 pen above with a few white api)res3ed hairs of the intercostal spaces at 

 length glabrous paler and pubescent on the nerve? beneath, cymes veiy large 

 '^d diffuse, bracts minute caducous. L. aspera, Wall. Cat. 6825, inpaH. 



IfiPAi^ PTttKicA. Khasia Mts., alt. 2-3000 ft., 5"./ c^ T. Tesabsekih or Am>a. 

 "^Islands, 2^{/er.* "' '^.:^.r&:j,::,.Q''^^'^^--'**^"' -„'y#-'V'"-i '^ ' ■ ' ■■_. ' 



A somewhat Weak shrub, with more slender branches than in Lrobusta.- Leaven 

 ^•"n and membranous; nerves arched. ^»/^ri connate.: irwtf—li would seem 





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