Leea, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 655 
Root perennial. Stems several, herbaceous, somewhat 
woody, from four to five feet high, jointed, swelléd above 
the joints, the young shoots chiefly areornamented with from 
six to eight, thin, short, much curled wings. Leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, generally quinate-pinnate, though in luxuri- 
ant plants the lower pair is sometimes compound, Leaflets 
petioled, ovate-oblong, pointed, deeply and acutely serrate ; 
Veins numerous, simple, parallel, large, running off at an an- 
gle of about forty-five degrees, corresponding in number with 
the serratures of the margin, and ending in their points, as 
in Dillenia speciosa. Petioles four or five-Winged; wings 
curled, &c, as on the branches, Stipules falcate, not ciliate. 
Cymes terminal, small, a little hairy, five-flowered. Bractes 
Iainate, hairy, margins running down the next peduncle or- 
pedicel immediately below, forming a deep groove thereon, 
with high winged margins. Calyx absolutely fiye-toothed, 
permanent. Corol as in the last species, Mectary also as in 
the last. nthers lodged within the mouth of the nectary,— 
but not adhering to one another. Germ conical, six-celled, 
with one ovudum in each, attached to the base of the axis, 
Style five-grooved. Berry round, size of a small cherry, 
when ripe smooth, black, and succulent, six-celled. Seeds one 
in each cell, all of which very frequently come to perfection, 
obliquely-obovate, inserted near the inner and lower angle 
to the lower part of a soft, central receptacle. Integument 
single, hard, and’ pretty smooth; a very thin membrane 
seems to cover and adhere to the perisperm. Perisperm con- 
form to the seed, deeply intersected with brown, clammy fis- 
sures. Embryo small, lodged in the base of the perisperm: 
near the umbilictis, a little incurvate. Cotyledons — 
Radickes inferior, oblong. : 
3. L. robusta. R. 
Shrubby, jointed, pubescent. Rane bi- and sic ptanite g 
leaflets ovate-lanceolate, serrate, cuspidate. aged ub- ; 
globular, re 
