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on a tenrlril-bearing peduncle shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4-6- 

 meroiis (Jidfi Lawsou). Fruit globular, 25 in. in diam. Embamma hoter- 

 antha, Griff. Notulae IV, 694. Vitis rufula, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bafc. 

 I, 94. Gissus involucrata, Miq. (not of Sprang.) Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 517. 



Malacca : Griffith, Maingay. Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector, 

 Nos. 678, 1084. 



There are in Herb. Calcutta two specimens from Perak (Wray, 

 No. 1178 and Scortechini without number) which apparently belong to 

 this species, but which have pedate leaves with 5 lenflets. 



4. Pterisanthes pedata, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 664. 

 Stems sparsely pubescent when young, glabrous when old. Leases pedate, 

 6-foliolate, oblanceolate; the lower two leaflets smaller, the apex with 

 a short stout bristle, the edges remotely glandular-dentate in the upper 

 part ; both surfaces, but especially the lower, sparsely araolinoid-hairy, 

 the edge on the lower surface densely so : main nerves of leaflets about 

 4 pairs, spreading ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth '6 to 1'25 in. ; petiole 

 about 1 in. ; petiolules about '35 in. ; those of the lower leaflets rather 

 shorter. Inflorescence glabrous, born© on a short tendril- bearing 

 peduncle. Flowers 4-merous. Fruit unknown. 



Malacca : Grifiith, Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 432. 



This is known only from Griffith's and Maingay's very scanty speci- 

 mens. It may be only a pedate form of P. heterantha. 



3. Leea, Linn. 



Small trees, shrubs or herbs. Branches striate or sulcate, often 

 herbaceous. Leaves alternate, usually very large, simple, or 1-2-3- 

 pinnate ; petiole often dilated at the base, stipules sheathing. Peduncles 

 opposite the leaves or sub-terminal. Tendrils 0. Inflorescence corym- 

 bosely-cymose. Floioers red yellow or green. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 

 5, connate at the base and adhering to the staminal tube, revolute. 

 Stamens united at the base into a 5-lobed tube, the filaments inserted 

 between the lobes of the tube, inflexed ; anthers exserted. Ooary 

 inserted on the disc, 3- to 8-celled ; style short, stigma swollen ; ovules 

 I or 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit 3- to 8-celled, berry-like, usually 

 Bucculent, depressed-globular and lobed, pulp often scanty. Pyrenes 

 wedge-shaped, seeds compressed. — Distrib. Species about 50, mostly 

 tropical Asiatic and African, a few Australian. 

 Leaves simple, or with 3 to 5 large pinnules. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, cymes on long 



peduncles ... ... ... 1. L. latifolia. 



Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces ; 



cymes on short peduncles. 



A tree ; leaflets 6 ... ... .,.' 2. L. grandifolia. 



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