Tas. 5299, 
LEEA COCCINEA. 
Scarlet-lowered Leea. 
Nat. Ord. AMPELIDEZ.—MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx liber, 5-dentatus, persistens. Corolia toro lamineformi 
calycis basim vestienti inserta, cum urceolo staminifero connata, quinquefida, 
laciniis revolutis. Urceolus subglobosus, corolla basi adnatus, emarginato-5- 
lobus, fauce intus annulo membranaceo semiclausus. Stamina 5, urceoli dorso 
inter ejusdem lobos inserta, petalis opposita; filamenta introflexa ; antheras ex- 
trorsas, biloculares, utrinque emarginatas, medio dorso insertas, marginibus 
plerumque inter se connatas vel rarius distinctas inter urceolum condentia, 
Ovarium disco semi-immersum, tri-sexloculare. Ovuda in loculis solitaria, ex 
anguli centralis basi adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus brevis, simplex ; stigma sub- 
capitatum. Bacea tri-sexlocularis ; Jocu/is monospermis. Semina erecta; testa 
ossea, endopleura intra albuminis rugas longitudinaliter profunde immersa. Em- 
bryo parvus, in basi albuminis cartilaginei lobati orthotropus ; cotyledonibus ovatis, 
subfoliaceis, vadicua conica, infera.—Suffrutices vel frutices, interdum arborescentes, 
in Asia tropica, insulis Borbonicis, et Capite Bone-Spei crescentes ; foliis oppositis, 
uni-bi-tripinnatis ; foliolis integerrimis vel serratis ; petiolis basi dilatata vaginanti- 
bus; pedunculis oppositifoliis, nunguam in cirrhos conversis, cymoso-decompositis. 
Endl. 
LEEA coccinea ; glaberrima, foliis tripinnatis, foliolis petiolulatis pro genere parvis 
(ad extremum sesquipollicem longis) oblongo-lanceolatis caudatis repando- 
dentatis undulatis supra saturate viridibus nitidis, cyma trichotoma, floribus 
confertis brevissime pedicellatis fere sessilibus coccineis, coronz staminex 
fere ad medium 5-fide divisuris truncato-subretusis, antheris primum inter 
se connexis mox liberis, stylo incluso. Planch. 
Lega coccinea. Planch. in Hort. Donatensis, p. 6. 
Lesa lucida. Lind. Cat. Ann. 1833. 
PanaXx excelsa e¢ Aralia excelsa. Hortul. Plurim. (Planchon). 
_ This new species of Zeea has been for some years past cultivated 
in the stoves of European gardens, where it eminently deserves a 
place on account of its neat and graceful habit, and the thick- 
flowered cymes of scarlet flowers ; but its native country is not 
known, though suspected to be Java. In Continental nurseries 
it seems to have passed under the name of Leea lucida (Lin- 
den), and of Panaz excelsa and Aralia excelsa, the two last on 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1862. 
