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494 LEAFLETS oF PuHiriPPiNE. BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 24 
LEEA Linn. 
Leea negrosense Elm. n. sp. 
A 3 m. high shrub; stems 3 cm. thick, yellowish brown, 
lenticelled, sparingly branched. Leaves large, ample, horizon- 
tally spreading; peduncle stout, glabrous, terete, about 2 cm. 
long, forked at the nodulose and subarticulate Jower joint 
into 3 large divisions; secondary peduncles less than 1 cm. 
long; leaflets opposite, imparipinnate, 8 to 5 pairs, averaging 
8 cm. apart, the lower pair trifoliate; petiole 1 to 2 cm. 
long; the petiolule at least twice as long, glabrous, grooved or 
fluted along the upper side; blades rather thin, glabrous, elliptic, 
ovately lanceolate or occasionally lanceolate, subentire toward the 
base, apiculate or serrately dentate along the sides and toward 
the slender acuminate apex, the teeth callous pointed, base 
mostly obtuse, the normal ones 15 cm. long by 5 cm. wide 
below the middle, the terminal one usually the largest; nerves 
plain from the upper side, reddish brown and prominent 
beneath, pinnate, 7 to 11 lateral pairs, ascending; tips ob- 
scurely united, glabrous or strigose when young, the fine 
reticulations quite evident beneath. Inflorescence deep red, 
terminal or from the uppermost leaf axil, upon rather short 
but thick peduncles, corymbosely branched, 2 to 3 dm. wide 
or even wider; allthe branches subangulate or subcompressed, 
lenticelled, the younger portions short brown pubescent; ped- 
icels 2 to 3 mm. long, puberulent, subtended at the base 
by vestiges of bracts; calyx glabrous, 3 mm. high, cupshap- 
ed, united below the middle, the 5 broad teeth quite thick 
and rigid; the 5 corolla segments also thick, valvate, glabrous, 
oblongish, connate toward the base, 4 mm. long; staminal 
rim inserted upon the base of the corolla, thick, glabrous, 
terminated into 5 blunt or emarginate appendages; stamens 
5, alternating with the appendages of the staminal rim; fil- 
aments glabrous, 1 mm. long, flattened and widest at the 
base, inserted on the basal outer side of the staminal rim; 
anthers inflexed in the bud, acute at the apex, 1 mm. 
long, ellipsoid, dorsifixed; ovary glabrous, conical, 5-ovulate; 
style strict, 1 mm. long, glabrous, bearing a minute terminal 
stigma; fruit not seen. vd 
