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15. li* blrta, ^(?:r6; Fl. Ind. i. 655; branches and leaves hairy, leaflets 

 4-12 by 2-4 in. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate harsh and 

 scabrous above hairy beneath, cymes very short and compact, bracts lucon- 

 splcubiis. Wall. Cat. 6822. L. scabra, Steud, ii. 21. ] X%'^ 





, SiKKiM Himalaya, Assam, Silhet, the Khasia Mts., East Bengal, Chittagong,^ 

 Pegu, and the Andaman Islands, — Disteib. Java. . j > 



Shrubby, with coarse subscabrous branches and petioles. FeiTis , arched. ^ Cyvm 

 2-5 in., very compact, densely hirsute. Flowers large.' Anthers connate. Fruit the 

 size of a currant, blacjk, dry? — Readily known from L. rohmta by its abundant and 

 harsh pubescence and inconspicuous bracts ■ and from L. diffusa by its very fihort and 



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/Leea coRDATA, Wall. Cat 6019, appears to be a Vitis near K pallida; the speci- 

 ' men is insufficient. Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1873, pt. 2, 66, refers.it doabttuliy; 

 to a form of V. Linncei. - ^ jpn . .> 



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. irees, shrubs, or rarely stout or wiry herbs.' Leaves alternate or le^ 

 commonly opposite, exstipulate or occasionally stipulate; pinnate palmate tn- 

 foliolate or simple; leaflets opposite or alteriiate,' "entire or dentate, occa- 

 sionally lobed. Flowers mostly polygamo-dicecious and small, usually eitner 

 irregular or^unsymmetricaL": Calyx mostly 4-5-lobed or -sepalous, otteii 

 unequally so, imbricate or valvate in the bud. Petals free, equal or unequal, 

 usually 4-5 or 0, the fifth sometimes deficient, flat of in one genus cup- 

 shaped, often bearded or squamate at the base within. D^ ^°^"f '"t^I 

 unilateral, rarely in $ flowers deficient. Stamens 5-10, inserted inf <f^ T. 

 disk at the base of the ovary or outside or on the disk, sometimes uni^*^®";;/ 

 anthers 2-celled, basifixed or versatile ; filaments often pubescent.^aimos 

 always free. Ovary centric or excentric, entire or lobcd or sometimes myiae^, 

 nearly to the base, 1-4-celled ; cells 1-2- or rarely more -ovuled. ^¥« sii»i^^ 

 or divided, usually terminal ; stigma usually simple. Ofufeanatropouscam, 

 pylotropous or amphitropous, usually 1 or 2 together, occasioually m^^ » 

 affixed to the axis of the ovary, ascending. Fruit capsular or mdeHisceuv 

 entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds globose or compressed, »"*Jtj^ 



or naked, exalbuminous or in some genera albuminous, ^'"^'^'^.'^f V^OO' 

 thick, sometimes plicate or spirally convolute.— Distbib. About 400 lo -J • 

 species scattered over the whole world, especially abundant witnm 

 i^opics; 83 occur in Australia ; 37 in Tropical Africa ; 20 are given^ "j 

 Boissier in the " Flora Orientalis.'*-'! ' ^ •• "^ ? ^E**r{./ ^ 



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Flowers irregular. Disk unilateral or veiy obliciue^ ; ,;f 

 Ovules solitary. Leaves aTteraftte, not digitate. ^j^^: .;: '^ 



Fruit capsular, inflated, globose or pyriform. Leaffets "bifer-^ _ „„« rnL 



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 unilateraL Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves exstipulate, alternate or in ^'^ 

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