414 Materials for n Flora of tin Malayan Veninmla. 



6. Leea angulata, Koth, ex Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 97. 

 A bushy tree 20 to 30 feet high, the stem with many sharp thorns, th© 

 branches and lower part of the petioles and peduncles with a few scat- 

 tered short thorns. Leaves about 1 foot long, 2-rarely 3-pinuate : the 

 riichis angled, channelled on the upper surface, and the common petiole 

 dilated at the base: leajlets 5, rarely 7, glabrous, narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, distantly sei'rate-crenate, the terminal 

 one equal-sided at the base, the laterals oblique, all crenate ; main 

 i;erves 5 or 6 pairs in the lateral, and 9 to 12 pairs in the terminal 

 leaflet, spreading, slightly prominent on the lower surface but not 

 winged or crisped ; length of the laterals 15 to 2-5 in., of the terminal 

 3 to 4 5 in. ; breadth "85 to 1-25 in.; petiolides 1 to '25 in. Cymes 

 on glabrous slightly prickly peduncles 2 to 3*.5 in. long, open, branching, 

 measuring 3 in, across, almost glabrous ; bractcoles minute, lanceolate, 

 in pairs. jF7owe?-s dull white. Stainival tube ^-toothed. BerWes depress- 

 ed-globose, black and juicy when ripe, '35 in. in diam. L. horrida 

 Teysm. and Binn. (name only) Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. ed. 1866 

 p. 169. L. Malayana, Scortechini MSS. L. acnleata, C. B. Clarke 

 (not of Blume) in Trimen's Journ. Bot. for 1881. p. 105. 



Peiak : Wray, Nos. 3325, 3803 ; Scortechini, No. 1829 ; King's 

 Collector, Nos. 1145, 7066. Pahang : Ridley, No. 2583. Nicobar Is- 

 lands : Kurz, King's Collector. — DiSTRiB. Java. 



Thi.s differs from L. aculeuta, Bl. in being a larger plant and in 

 having white, not red, flowers. L. aculeata has moreover simply pinnate 

 leaves with about seven leaflets of larger size in this ; the rachis 

 in the leaves of that moreover is not winged, nor is the base of the 

 petiole dilated. 



7. Leea rambucina, Willd. sp. PI. I, 1177. A shrub 4 to 10 feet 

 hio-h ; young branches deciduously adpressed-rusty-puberulous. Leaves 

 15 to 20 in. long, 2-rarely 3-pinnate, the rachis and petiole not winged: 

 leaflets oblong or elliptic, shortly and sharply acuminate, coarsely and 

 KOiuefcimes rather unequally serrate, the base slightly cuneate ; both 

 sui-faces quite glabrous ; main nerves 7 to 12 pairs, rather prominent 

 beneath, spreading; veins not prominent, transverse ; length 3 to 6 or 

 even 9 in., breadth 1'5 to 3 in ; petiolules of the lateral leaflets '2 to 

 • i in., tiie terminal one two or three times as long. Cymes on stout 

 peduncles several inches long, (sometimes 6 in.), spreading, rather lax, 

 almost glabrous, not usually more than 8 or 9 in. across. Floioers 

 greenish-white, the buds sub-globnlar : stamitml tube yellowish-white, 

 its lobes notched. Fruit: depicssed-globular, smooth, black, pulp scanty, 

 •3 in. in diam. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 18; Fl. Ind. cd. Carey II, 470 ; 

 DC. Prodr. T, 633 ; Wall. Cat. 6823, A, C, and part of B ; Blume Bijd. 



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