288 MR. Н. N. RIDLEY ON THE FLORA OF THE 
There are seven species of Pterisanthes known to me from the Peninsula, of which 
Pt. polita alone has simple leaves, the rest having 3—5-foliolate leaves *. 
LEEA RUBRA, Blume. 
Local. Pulau Chengei, Pulau Manis, Pahang River, in thickets. 
A small plant, well-marked by its beautiful red inflorescence. 
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L. GIGANTEA, Griff. 
Tahan woods. А striking plant with very large oval leaflets, 9 inches long and 4 across. 
L. sAMBUCINA, Willd. 
Pekan; Kwala Tembeling. 
This is the common species in Singapore, where it often forms a small tree with a 
single stem. It has green petals and a white staminal tube, the lobes of which are blunt 
and notched. А plant collected in Perak by Wray, and named L. gigantea at Kew, 
closely resembles this plant in every respect, except that the lobes of the staminal tube 
are entire, but they are not acute as in the Tahan-woods plant. "There is almost always 
a little rusty pubescence on the corymb branches. Тһе fruit is brownish and rather 
dry, and the seeds have a low keel running along the back. 
L. HORRIDA, Teysm. 
Pulau Jellam, Pahang River, The * МаШ-МаШ” or * Mamalli " of the Malays, who 
believe that it has the property of keeping away tigers. А thorny bush with greenish- 
white flowers. 
L. xQvATA, Linn. 
Pulau Tiuman; Tahan River. 
L., sp. 
Kwala T'embeling; Pulau Chengei. 
I cannot identify this; it is a low, thornless, bushy plant, with bipinnate leaves and 
narrow oblong acuminate leaflets, with one notch to each primary vein. Тһе inflorescence 
resembles that of Г. horrida, Teysm. 
SAPINDACEJE. 
CARDIOSPERMUM HaALICACABUM, Linn. 
Common in campongs and open grounds. Pekan, Kwala Berar, &c. 
ERIOGLOSSUM EDULE, Blume. 
Small tree. Pekan, Renchong. 
* (1) Pt. polita, Miq., the commonest species, oceurs in Chan-chu-kang in Singapore, at Petaling in Selangor, and 
at Maxwell's Hill, Perak ; its variety, lanceolata, at Pahang, Singapore. (2) Pt. Miquelii, Planch. (syn. Pt. arenosa, 
Miq.), Western Hill, Perak, Penang. (3) Pt. caudigera, Planch., Malacca; called “ Akar Gamat.” (4) Pt. pedata, 
М. Laws., Selangor ; called “ Akar Kachang Gurunang” or “ Burunang.” (5) Pt. heterantha, М. Laws., Selangor, 
in Malacca; “Akar Sülünkak." (6) Pt. rufula, Planch., Malacca, Chan-chu-kang in Singapore, and Pekan in 
Pahang. (7) Pt. glabra (vide supra, p. 287 } 
The species of Pterisanthes are all natives of the denser parts of the jungles, where they scramble through the 
lower bushes, and are very inconspicuous unless in fruit, when the red, tongue-shaped rhachis, with its round 
black grapes, is very striking. 
