leea.] ' AvipelidecB. 297 



berry about \ in., globose, cream-coloured, 2-4-seeded ; seed 

 ovoid, pointed, flattened on one side, back very convex, grooved 

 down the centre, transversely rugose. 



Var. /3. g-lycosmoides, Planch. 1. c. 426 (sp.). C. verrucosa., 

 Moon Cat. 1 1 Q). Cissiis niuricaia, var. minor., Thvv. Enum. 63. 

 C. P. 1 178. 



Smaller, more copiously lenticellate; 1. usually reduced to 

 a single Iflt., more rarely 3-foliolate, Iflts. broader, less serrate, 

 berry rather smaller; seed less strongly rugose. 



Montane zone up to 6000 ft.; rather rare (.'') Hakgala ; Dimbula. 

 Var. /?. in the low moist country up to 3000 ft.; common. Fl. Feb.- 

 April ; greenish-white. 



Throughout Peninsular India, and in Malay Peninsula and Java ; 

 var. /3. endemic. 



The leaves, especially in var. glycosmoides., are very often unifoliate, 

 but this is insufficient for the separation of another species. 



Planchon's Tetrastigina, to which genus this belongs, is distinguished 

 by its dilated 4-lobed stigma and polygamo-dicecious fl. 



2. x.z:i:a,^z. 



Semi-shrubby perennials, not climbing; 1. alternate, com- 

 pound, stipulate ; fl. bisexual, in terminal or leaf-opposed 

 cymes; cal. cup-shaped, 5-lobed ; pet. 5, connate below 

 into a cup-shaped tube ; stam, 5, connate below into a 

 wide tube, which is adnate below to tube of the pet. and 

 deeply 5-lobed at mouth, anth. on inside of tube, alternate 

 with the lobes and opp. the pet., connate by their edges ; 

 ov. 6-celled, with i erect ovule in each cell, style simple ; 

 fruit a 3-6-seeded berry ; seed with horny endosperm. — 

 Sp. 25; i^ \n Fl. B. Ind. 



Xi. sambucina, Willd. Sp. PI. \. 1177 (1797). BuruUa, 

 Gurulla, S. 



Aquilicia Otzllis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 275. Lcea OtilHs, DC. Prod. i. 

 636. Moon Cat. 18. L. Siapkylea, Roxb., Thw. Enum. 64. C. P. 732. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 667. Wight, Ic. t. 78. Gaertn. Fruct. t. 57, f. 7 {Otillis 

 zeylafiicd). 



A large semishrubby perennial, 4-6 ft., stems cylindrical, 

 branched, sulcate, usually rough with small prominences, 

 glabrous; 1. pinnate or bi-pinnate, very large, 1J-3 ft, petiole 

 and rachis glabrous, furrowed, rough like the stem, thickened 



* Commemorates James Lee, nurseryman, of Hammersmith, who, by 

 his 'Introduction to Botany' (1760), brought the Linnean system into 

 England. Died 1795. 



