AMPELIDEZA. V. Lega. VI. Lastanturra. GERANIACEE. 
* * Leaves usually pinnate, very seldom bipinnate. 
8 L. acuLEAa`ra (Blum. bijdr. 1. c.) stem roundish, furrowed, 
prickly ; leaves pinnate, quite smooth, with coarsely-serrated 
leaflets ; corymbs decompound. h.S. Native of Java. 
Prickly-stemmed Leea. Shrub 8 feet. 
9 L.urrra (Herb. Banks, Horn. hort. hafn. 1. p. 231.) leaves 
pinnate, and sometimes bipinnate, with lanceolate-serrated hairy 
leaflets; anthers connected. }.S. Native of the East Indies 
in the lower parts of Bengal and Nipaul. L. scabra, Roxb. 
mss. Stems many, flexuous, jointed. Leaflets from 2 to 8 
inches long, and from 1 to 3 broad. Cymes terminal, 3-parted. 
Nectary inserted in the edge of the projecting ring, which sur- 
rounds the ovary. Berry black, resembling a black currant, 6- 
seeded, when dry 6-lobed. 
Hairy Leea. Fl. Oct. Nov. Clt. 1823. Shrub 6 feet. 
10 L. crispa (Lin. mant. 124.) herbaceous ; stem and branches 
fringed at the angles; leaves pinnate, with oblong, serrated 
leaflets; anthers free. 2%. S. Native of the East Indies, 
common among bushes near Calcutta; and of the Cape of Good 
Hope. L. pinnata, Andr. bot. rep. t. 355.—Rheed. mal. 2. 
p. 43. t, 26. Stems swelled above the joints. Leaflets usually 
5, but in very luxuriant plants they are sometimes compound. 
Cymes small, a little hairy, 5-flowered. Flowers small, white. 
Urceolus of stamens with entire divisions, with the anthers 
lodged within its mouth. Berries round, size of a small cherry, 
when ripe smooth and black. 
Curled-stemmed Leea. Fl. Oct. Nov. Clt. 1767. Sh. 5 ft. 
11 L. a’spzra (Wall. fl. nep. mss.) leaves pinnate, with 
oblong, lanceolate, serrated, villous, rather scabrous leaflets; 
stem and branches rather curled at the angles; anthers free. 
h.S. Native of Nipaul. 
Rough-leaved Leea. Shrub 6 feet. 
12 L. æeua`ra (Lin. mant. 124.) stem round, pubescent ; 
leaves pinnate, with lanceolate, acuminated, serrated leaflets, 
pubescent when young. b. S. Native of the East Indies. 
èa hirsita, Blum. bijdr. Corymbs trichotomous. Flowers 
small, greenish. 
ven Leea. Shrub 6 feet. 
Fl. Oct. Nov. Clt. 1777. 
*** Leaves simple. 
Mes L. MACROPHY'LLA (Roxb. hort. beng. p. 18. fl. ind. 2. p. 
5.) herbaceous ; leaves simple, stalked, broad-cordate or lobed, 
posterior lobes overlapping each other; cyme trichotomous ; 
ian tuberous. 4%. S. Native of the East Indies. Leaves from 1-2 
eet long, and nearly as broad. Flowers numerous, small, white. 
Tceolus ‘of stamens with entire divisions. Anthers inverted 
ve the mouth of the urceolus. Berries much depressed, 
numb a small cherry, obscurely 6 or more lobed, with an equal 
' n er of cells, when ripe black and succulent. The root of 
it Pant promises to yield a colour fit for dying; its taste 1s 
Tingent, and it is mucilaginous. 
ong-leaved Leea. Clt. 1806. Pl. 4 feet. , 
peelt, These plants are scarcely worth cultivating, except in 
a eral collections. They will all thrive well in a mixture of 
readi] and peat, or any light, rich soil, and large cuttings root 
“y m sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 
b vi, LASIANTHE'RA (from acoc, lasios, woolly, and av- 
p. gi anthera, an anther; anthers hairy). Beauv. fl. d’ow. 1. 
89. t. 51, D.C. prod. 1. p. 636. 
bracts, syst. Pentándria, Monogýnia. Calyx 5-toothed. 
aea ne on the outside. Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 5, m- 
With he the bottom of the corolla ; filaments broad, alternating 
short.. e lobes of the corolla. Anthers oblong, hairy. Style 
AÀ small climbing shrub with simple leaves. 
- Arrica'na (Beauv. fl. d’ow. l. c.). h. Se Native of 
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Africa near Chama, on the banks of the river St. Yago. A 
suffruticose climber, with ovate-oblong, entire, cuspidate leaves. 
Peduncles leaf-opposed, umbellately branched at the apex. 
Flowers capitate, as in Æràlia. ` 
African Lasianthera. Shrub cl. 
Cult. This plant will thrive in any light loamy soil, and 
large cuttings will strike root in sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 
Orper LIV. GERANIA'CE®Æ (plants agreeing with Ge- 
rànium in important characters). D. C. fl. fr. 4. p- 838. prod. 
1. p. 637. Sweet, Ger.—Gerania, Juss. gen. 268. 
Calyx permanent, of 5 sepals (f. 119. a.) ; sepals more or 
less unequal, imbricate in æstivation, sometimes one of them 
is drawn out into a hollow spur at the base, which is closely 
connate to the peduncle. Petals 5 (f. 119. b.), (rarely 4, one 
of which being abortive very rarely absent altogether) ungui- 
culate, alternating with the sepals, equal or unequal; in the 
first they are hypogynous, in the second they are usually 
inserted in the calyx or connected together. Stamens with 
the filaments rarely free, but almost always monadelphous 
at the base, disposed ina simple series, hypogynous or perigy- 
nous, equal or double in number to the petals, rarely triple that 
number as in Monsònia, sometimes some of them are sterile, 
equal or unequal. Ovary at first 5-celled (f. 119. d.), ending ina 
long thick style, crowned by 5 stigmas (f. 119. e.). Carpels 5, ra- 
ther membranous, indehiscent, 1-celled, biovulate, at first pressed 
to the base of the torus, each ending in a style or awn, which is 
closely adnate to the angles of the torus, but after maturity twist- 
ing variously from the base to the apex, and by their elasticity 
separating the carpels from the torus (f. 119. e.), but still adhering 
at the middle to the top of the torus. Seeds solitary in the carpels, 
pendulous, exalbuminous. Embryo curved, with a deflexed 
radicle directed to the bottom of the carpel, with leafy, con- 
volute, or flexuously plicate cotyledons, which are sometimes 
lobed.—-Herbs or soft-stemmed shrubs, with the young stems 
jointed at the articulations, and separable as in Ampelidee. 
Lower leaves opposite, upper ones alternate, with the peduncles 
opposite the leaves as in Vitis, but never changing to tendrils. 
Flowers of various hues, solitary, or umbellate on the peduncles. 
The Pelargoniums, commonly called Geraniums, are well known to 
all gardeners for their beauty, and the facility with which hybrid 
varieties are produced among them. M. de Candolle remarks 
that of the true Geranidcee some are slightly acid, especially 
those with succulent leaves, some exhale a resinous smell, which 
is sometimes agreeable, but occasionally so powerful as to be 
unpleasant. This resinous principle is so powerful in Sarcocau- 
lon L’Heretieri, that its stem burns like a torch, and exhales an 
agreeable perfume. The most common property of the Euro- 
pean Geraniums is to be astringent, which is chemically deter- 
mined by their juice being blackened by sulphate of iron ; this 
is particularly remarkable in G. Robertianum and G. sanguineum, 
which are both accounted vulnerary, and Eròdium moschatum 
and G. praténse, in which it is united to a slight aromatic prin- 
whence they have been recommended for various purposes, 
rs for removing calculous disorders. The G. 
dance about Philadelphia 
ciple, 
and among othe 
maculàtum, which grows in great abun 
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