Leea. pentandria monogynia. 657 



A native of the lower parts of Bengal. Flowering- time 

 tlie rainy season. 



Stems several, somewhat woody, flexuose, jointed. Bark 

 green ish^slightly scabrous ; branches few, and like the stern. 

 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. exactly as in the former and fol- 

 lowing species. 



5. L. sambncina. Willd. spec. i. 1177. 

 Shrubby. Leaves from simple to decompound; leaflets 

 ovate, oblong, serrate, smooth. Cymes super-decompound. 

 Frutex aquosus, foemina. Humph. Amh. iv. t. 45. 

 Aquilicia Sambncina. Linn. Mant. 211. Gccrt. carp. 2. 



127. t. 108. 



A native of the Moluccas, from thence introduced into the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 17<)S, where it blossoms dur- 

 ing the rains, and ripens its seed in November, December, and 



January. 



Stems erect, almost straight, ranious, height of the whole 



plant from eight to twelve feet. Bark slightly furrowed 



lengthways, in other respects smooth. In this species roots 



oenerally descend to the ground from the lower joints of the 



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