410 Materials for a Flora of tho Malayan Veninsula. 



(not of Willd.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, QQQ (in part). L. lacta, Wall. 

 Cat. "6831 A and B ; Kiuz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. 42, pt. 2, p. G5 ; 

 Vol. 44, pt. 2, p. 179: For. Flora Burma, I, 278; C. B. Clarke Z. c, 

 p. 103. L. sanyuinca, Wall. Cut. 6824. 



Andmnau Islands: common. — DiSTitiB. Along the base of (he 

 Eastern Himalaya, the Assam Range and Burma. 



1 cannot .see how Wallich's two sets of specimens named L. acumi' 

 im^aand L. laeta are to bo distinguished as species^thc .solitary diffei'- 

 ence which I can find between them being that, in L. laeta the cymes 

 are more condensed and have shorter peduncles than in L. acnvi'mala. 

 1 have therefoto, in spite of the liigh authority of Mr. C. B. Cliirke 

 who keeps theui distinct, veiltuied to unite them. The species, fis 

 I understand it, is allied to L. sambncina, Willd., but is a much smaller 

 plant and has coral-red, not green, flowers in rusty-pubescent con- 

 densed cymes, and red fruit. 



9. Lkea Cuurisii, King n. sp. An erect shrub 4 to 5 feet high : 

 young shoots deciducmsly puberulous. Li aves 26 to 3 feet long, bi- 

 pinnate, the racbises channelled, the petiole terete ; leaflets elliptic or 

 oblong-elliptic, shortly caudate-acuminate, reniotely cronate, the bases 

 cuncate; botli surfaces glabrous, the lower transversely reticulate; 

 main nerves 6 or 6 pairs, curved, sub-ascending, prominent on the lower 

 surface; length. 3'6 to 4'5 in,, breadth ]-5 to 2 in. : petiolules of the 

 lateral leaflets about "3 in., of the terminal 1"5 in. Cymes on a long 

 stout peduncle, umbellate, branched ; the branches lax, spreading, few- 

 flowered. Floivers lai'ge, obovoid, in pairs with deciduous bracteoles 

 at the base. Calyx gl?.udular- hairy, pure white, its lobes spreading, 

 Petals reflexed, whitish-yellow, teeth of staminal tube entire. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Perak : on Waterloo Peak, alt. 1500 feet ; Curtis. No. 2872. 



Collected only by Mr. Curtis who describes the young leaflets as 

 beautifully marked with silverj^-grey variegations along both sides of 

 their midribs. This appears in its foliage to resemble the imperfectly 

 known Bornean species L. amabilis, the leaflets of which, however, have 

 more nerves and more serrations. 



10. Leea rubra, Blume Bijdr. 197. A shrub 1 to 6 feet high ; 

 3^oung branches minutely scaly-pubescent, ultimatelj^ glabrous. Leaves 

 2- to 3-pinnate, the main rachis angled and sometimes ."^lightly winged : 

 leaflets 3 to 5, ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, coaisely serrate, 

 rounded or sub-cuueate at the base, sub-sessile ; main nerves 6 to 

 10 pairs, winged and erisj)ed and, in young leaves, with minute black 

 hair along their sides, otherwise glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes on 

 peduncles "5 to 2"5 in. long, furfuraceous rusty-puberulous, condensed 



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