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XXXVII, AMPELIDE^R. 451 



many-flowercd, | to 1 in. broad, on railier long peduncles. Flowers fully 1 

 line diameter. Petals 5, separating. Disk broad, undulate. Style short, 

 conical, with a truncate stigma. Berries nearly globular. 



y^' Australia, Dnanmond, ??. 43 and 218 ; Murcliisoii river, Oldfield, At first sight 



tliis closely resembles fLc S. American Cksia palmaia, Poir., but that siiecies has more 

 ovoid huds, 4 petals falling off together, and a smaller disk. 



2. LEEA, Linn. 



Petals united in a campanulate corolla with 5 spreading or recurved lobes. 

 -Uisk (resembling a staminal tube) cup-shaped, conical, or nearly globular, 

 5-iobed, enclosing tlie ovar3^ Stamens inserted in grooves outside the disk, 

 ilie filaments iucurvcd at the top, with the anthers inside the disk in the bud. 

 Ovary enclosed in the disk, 3 to G-cellcd, with 1 ovule iu each cell.— Slu-ubs 

 or small trees, without tendrils. Leaves once, twuce, or thrice pinnate, with 

 large entire or toothed penniveined leaflets. Panicles or cymes leaf- op- 

 posed, coiymbose. Flowers usually krger than in Fills, 



the genus is dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa, the only Austrahan species being 

 the moat common among the Asiatic ones. 



1- Ij. sambucina, JFilld. Spec, PL i. 1177. A tall, glabrous, coarse 

 slirub, tlie voun^^ branches occasionallv furrowed. Leaves mostly twice or 

 umce pmuate ; leaflets few in each pinna, from ovate to oblong-elliptical or 

 lanceolate, acuminate, usually 3 to G in. long and 1^ to 2 in. broad, but 

 sometimes twice as long, irregularly crenate, the primary arcuate pinnate 

 "^^ins^ and transverse veinlcts very prominent nndprnoath. Cymes large, 

 fbvaricate, trichotomous, on short peduncles. Flowers about 2 lines loiv^, 

 on very short pedicels. Ovary 5-celled. Berries small, depressed-globular, 

 usually ripening 4 to G seeds.— DC. Prod. i. 635 ; L, daplijlea, Eoxb., W. 

 and Arn. Prod. 132, with the synonyms adduced; Wight. UL t. 58 and Ic. 

 '*^i- t. 78. , 



N.Australia. Raffles Bay, Goulhum Island, and other points of the N. coast, ^. 



Queensland. Islands of Howick's group, F, Mueller, 



The species is common in tropical Asia, and is, perhaps, the same as a common African 

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Oeder XXXVIIL SAPINDACE^. 



Flowers usually polygamous. Sepals 4 or 5, free or united in a small 

 toothed or lobed calyx, imbricate or rarely vaUate in the bud. Petals as 

 many as sepals, or 1 fewer, sometimes nu'nute or wanting, frccpiently bearing 

 ^ scale inside. Disk various, in some genera unilateral, rarely wanting. 

 Stamens 8, rarely fewer or more, inserted round the ovary within the disk 

 (except in a few genera not Australian), souietimcs unilateral; anthers versa- 

 tile or erect. Ovary entire or lobed, 1- to 4-celled, most frequently 3-celled. 

 Style simple, with a single stigma, or more or less divided. Ovules 1, 2, or 

 rarely more in each cell, ascending, or rarely horizontal, with the micropyle 

 yiferior. Fruit dry or succulent, dehiscent or indehiscent, entire or separating 

 J^to cocci. Seeds with or without an arillns, without albumen (except in a 

 few genera not Australian). Embryo usuallv thick, frequently folded or 



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