XIII. viiACE.!;. 269 



Leaves simple 1. L. macrophylla. 



Leaves usually simply pinnate. 



Main nerves of leaflets close ; bracts subpersistent. 



Stems with crisp wiugs 2. L. crispa. 



Stems without crisp wings 3. L.a^pera. 



Main nerves of leaflets not close ; bracts caducous 4. L.latifolia. 



Leaves 2-3-pinnate. 



Leaves glabrous 5. L, sambucitia. 



Leaves hairy beneath. 



Lobes of staminal-tube entire 6. L, robusta. 



Lobes of staminal-tube notched. 



Leaves with scattered glandular discs beneath 7. L. aqiiata. 



Leaves without glandular discs , 8. L. setuligera, 



1. Leea macrophylla, Roxh. ex Homem. Hort. Hafn. v. 1 (1813) 

 p. 231. Herbaceous, erect, 1-3 ft. high ; root tuberous, perennial, red. 

 Leaves simple, broadly ovate, cordate, acute or acumiaate, coarsely 

 serrate or sublobed, nearly as broad as long, the lower leaves up to 

 2 ft., the upper 6-9 in. long, dark green and glabrous above, cano- 

 pubescent beneath ; main nerves opposite, 8-10 pairs, very prominent ; 

 petioles 2-5 in. long, deeply striate, glabrous. Flowers white, in 

 terminal much-branched puberulous corymbose cymes often 1 ft. long ; 

 buds oblong ; peduncles deeply grooved ; pedicels short. Calyx divided 

 about g of the way down ; lobes triangular-ovate, tipped with a small 

 hard poiut. Petals oblong. Staminal-tube deeply divided ; lobes oblong, 

 entire or emarginate ; anthers laterally united in bud. Berry \-^ in. in 

 diam., black, 3-6-celled, depressed-globose, usually 3-6-lobed. El. B. I. 

 V. 1, p. 664 (excluding syn, L. latifolla)- Grab. Cat. p. 247; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 41 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1154 ; C. B. Clarke, in Trim. Journ. Bot. 

 (1881) p. 137 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 57 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 272; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 617.— Elowers : 

 July-Sept. Veen. Dinda. 



KoNKAN : Nimmo ex Graham ; Neral, Wooclrow ! ; W. Ghats, Woodrow. Deccan : 

 Singhad near Poona, Bhiva ! Kanara : common in the forests near Yellapur (N. 

 Kanara), Talbot. 



The root is employed in native medicine, being used for the cure of Guinea-worm. 

 See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c— Distrib. Throughout the hotter parts of India. 



2. Leea crispa, Linn. Mantiss. v. 1 (1767) p. 124. An erect shrub, 

 4-8 ft. high ; stems somewhat woody, jointed, swollen above the joints, 

 and together with the branches, peduncles, and petioles, furnished with 

 6-8 short crisp wings. Leaves usually simply pinnate (the lower pair 

 of leaflets rarely with one (or both ?) of the pair compound); leaflets 

 oblong, very parallel-sided, 4-7 by l2-3 in., acute or shortly acuminate, 

 sharply serrate, glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves and veins 

 beneath, usually rounded at the base ; main nerves 12-20 pairs, pro- 

 minent, parallel, nearly straight, one running into each serrature ; veins 

 transverse, nearly parallel, close, conspicuous beneath ; petiolules of the 

 lateral leaflets g-| in. long, those of the terminal much longer. 

 Flowers greenish-white, in small terminal slightly pubescent cymes ; 

 bracts subpersistent, linear-subulate, |-^ in. long ; bracteoles | in. long, 

 lanceolate. Calyx shortly divided ; lobes triangular, gland-tipped. 

 Petals oblong. Lobes of the staminal-tube linear-oblong, bifid ; anthers 

 not united in bud. Style grooved. Berry 5 in. in diam., depressed- 

 globular, usually 2-6 (or more) -lobed, black when ripe. Fl. B. I. v. 1, 



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