Leea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 657 
A native of the lower parts of Bengal. Flowering time 
the rainy season. ie 
Stems several, somewhat woody, flexuose, jointed. Bark 
greenish, slightly scabrous ; branches few, and like the stem. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, from simple to decompound. 
Leaflets opposite, oblong, serrate, scabrous and hairy on 
both sides, particularly on the under one, from two to eight 
inches long, and from one to three broad. Petiole and 
petiolets round, scabrous and hairy. Stipules petiolary. 
Cymes terminal, three-parted. Nectary inserted into the 
edge of the projecting ring which surrounds the mouth of the 
tube of the corol, the tube of which is erect, and five-parted ; 
divisions oblong, emarginate. Filaments five, the length of 
the nectary, and inserted into the bottom of its five fissures. 
Anthers oblong, three-fourths or more lodged within the 
mouth of the nectary, with their points downwards, and firm- 
ly coalescing at the sides into a tube. Berry ; when ripe it 
has much the appearance of a black currant, a little flatten- 
ed, generally six-seeded, when dry it appears with as many 
lobes, (torose ). “Seeds, &c. anata: as in the former and fol-— 
lowing —— 
6. L. sambueina. Willd. spec. i. 1177. 
Shrubby. Leaves from simple to decompound ; Joaplots 
ovate, oblong, serrate, smooth, Cymes super-decompound, 
‘Frutex aquosus, foemina. Rumph, Amb. iv. t. 45. 
 Aquilicia Sambucina, Linn. Mant. 211. Gert. carp. 2. 
127. ¢. 108, : 
- A native of the Moluccas, from thenee introduced intortlee: 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1798, where it blossoms dur- 
ing the rains, and — its seed in November, December, and 
January. 
_ Stems erect; almost straight, ramous, height of the lala 
plant from eight to twelve feet. Bark slightly furrowed 
lengthways, im other respects smooth. In this species roots 
generally descend to the — from the lower joints of the 
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