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bush ten or twelve feet high, it is a herb not higher than a yard; 
its stem is smooth ; and its inferior leaflets are sometimes again 
composed of three. In the collection presented by me to the 
East India Company, I have called it Leea herbacea ; but I am 
not certain that the circumstances I have mentioned are suff- 
cient to establish it asa distinct species from the Nalugu ; it may 
perhaps be considered as merely a variety ; and I should even 
consider it as entirely the same, were there any hint in the Hort. 
Mal. that the inferior pinnæ of the Na/ugu are ever subdivided ; 
for there is no mention of the Nalugu having a hairy stem, as is 
said to be the case in the Leea equata. What Rheede says of 
the leaflets of the Nalugu is applicable also to the L. herbacea, 
and serves to distinguish both from the Staphylea indica of Bur- 
man or Leea sambucina: * Folia (foliola) in margine rotundis 
denticulis incisa, et crispa lateribus versus interiorem partem 
contractis.— E costa (media) costz bin: et binze—obliquo an- 
nulari ac parallelo ductu proxime ad marginem exeunt ac reflexa 
in se invicem incurrunt." 
I shall now add a description of the Leea herbacea, which in 
the vulgar Hindwi dialect is called Govarai, and in the more 
polished language of physicians, Amarphul. 
Caulis herbaceus, 2 vel 3 pedes altus, simplex, supra folia nodo- 
sus, glaber, obtusangulus. Folia ima ternata, superiora cum 
impari pinnata, pinnis imis aliquando ternatis. Foliola op- 
posita, oblongo-ovata, acuminata, inzequaliter serrata, nervo 
ad marginem parallelo costata, venis minute reticulata, su- 
pra glabra, subtus pilosa, petiolata, remota. Petiolus basi 
membranaceo subvaginans, tetragonus, angulo superiore 
profunde sulcato. Rachis ad foliola nodosa. Cyma axil- 
laris vel terminalis, indeterminate divisa, ramulis glabris, 
acutangulis. Flores parvi, virides. Calyx turbinatus ore 
: — quinque- 
