262 XLii. vitaoEjB. 



lobed, black when ripe. C. B. Clarke, in Trim. Journ. Bot. (1881) p. 163 ; 

 King, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 65 (1897) p. 418. L. hirta, Eoxb. ex 

 Hornein. Hort. Hafn. v. 1, p. 231 ; Laws, in Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 668; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 57 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 617.— Flowers 

 in the rains {Talhot). 



The circular discs on the underside of the leaves furnish an excellent 

 specific character. They are found on no other Indian Leea and are 

 always present in this species. 



Kanaka: evergreen forests near Xarwar, Talbot 1. o. — Distrib. India (Sikkim 

 Himalaja, Assam, East Bengal, Silbet, the Audamans). 



8. Leea setuligeraj C. B. ClarTce, in Trim. Journ. Bot. (1881) p. 105. 

 Leaves compound, 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets eUiptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, sharply and closely serrate, clothed with stiff bristles between 

 the nerves above, bristly on the nerves beneath, base rounded or sub- 

 acute ; main nerves about 7-12 pairs ; petiolules of lateral leaflets 0-^ in. 

 long. Flowers in small compact umbellate cymes ; bracts liuear-subulate, 

 caducous ; peduncles I2-II in. long; pedicels very short. Lobes of the 

 staminal-tube bifid ; anthers united in bud. Fruit not seen. 



The flowers are, as far as it is possible to judge from a dried specimen, 

 red. 



There is but one specimen in Herb. Kew. labelled " Konkan, Stocks " (!) which 

 matches with no other specimen of Leea in the Herbarium. 



Oeder XLIIL SAPINDACE.a:. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely climbing herbs. Leaves alternate (rarely 

 opposite), generally compound ; stipules caducous or 0. Flowers usually 

 polygamo-dicecious, often irregular. Calyx usually 4-5-lobed or 4-5- 

 sepalous ; lobes or sepals often unequal, iiubricate or rarely valvate. Petals 

 4-5 or 0, free, equal or unequal, often bearded or squamate at the base 

 within. Disk annular or unilateral, rarely wanting in the male flowers. 

 Stamens 5-10 (usually 8), inserted inside the di^k at the base of the 

 ovary, or outside, or on the disk, sometimes unilateral; filaments often 

 pubescent, usually free ; anthers 2-celled, basifixed or versatile. Ovary 

 centric or excenti'ic, entire, lobed or partite nearly to the base, 1-4-celled ; 

 ovule 1 (rarely 2 or more) in each cell, aflixed to the axis of the ovary, 

 ascending; stylesimpleor divided, usually terminal; stigma usually simple. 

 Fruit capsular or indehisceut, entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds 

 globose or compressed, arillate or naked, usually exalbumiuous ; embryo 

 usually thick, sometimes plicate or spirally convolute. — Distrib. Through- 

 out the world, especially in the Tropics ; genera 73 ; species 500-800. 



Erioglossum edule, Blume, Bijdr. p. 229, a tree which occurs in the Sikkim Himalaya, 

 Assam, Birma, tlie Indian Archipelago, and North-western Australia, has been planted 

 in the Girgaum Woods, Bombay, but is certainly not indigenous. It has sweet- 

 scented flowers in panicled racemes, and the wood is useful, strong, and durable, 

 chocolate-colored in the centre. 



Blighia sapida, Konig, in Kon. &, Sims, Ann. Bot. v. 2, p. .571, the Aiee tree of 

 Jamaica, a native of Alrica and the West Indies, has been planted in Parel and 

 Dapuri gardens and in Lanoli Wood. It has abruptly-pinnate leaves, 3 or 4 pairs of 

 pale-green glabrous leaflets, small while flowers and a bright-red pear-like fruit about 



