64 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



and dwell together, and are the most remarkable of friends and 

 married pairs of all the leafy nation." Bishop Jeremy Taylor. 



The same figure occurs in Hindoo poetry. In Sakuntala, a jasmine 

 growing over a mango tree is used for the same comparison. 



' To sit every man under his vine ' (Micah iv. 4, etc.) refers to the 

 custom, common in Palestine as in Italy, of training vines over a 

 trellis (pergola) in front of the house. 



2. LEEA. 



1. L. samlucina (L. staphylea, D.). A large shrub mostly 

 smooth, with pinnately compound leaves ; leaflets narrow, 

 lanceolate serrate, flowers in large flat cymes, stamens coloured, 

 fruit round, black. Dinda. 



Very common in S. Konkan. Widely spread through hotter India 

 (Srandii). The young leaves are of a lovely bronze pink, opening out 

 of a pouch. The heads of flowers and leaves rather resemble the 

 English elder (Sambucus). 



2. L. macrophylla. Very like the last, but the very large 

 leaves are simple, broad ovate subcordate, smooth, the flowers 

 more decidedly white. 



The Konkan, much less common than the last; also called dinda. 



The next two orders are sufficiently alike to be grouped 

 together. 



ORDER 38. SAPINDACE-E. 



Leaves mostly pinnate, flowers small, usually white, calyx 

 4 or 5-lobed, often unequal, petals 4 or five, stamens 5 to 10 

 (oftenest 8), fruit sometimes lobed or winged. 



This large order comes nearest to Celastrineae, but the flowers are 

 often irregular, and the stamens generally more than 5. The maples 

 are by H. put in a tribe of this order, and one of its beauties is the 

 horse chestnut, JEscnlus hippo-castaneum, " said to be indigenous in 

 N. India, but not now known in its wild state" (H.). "It migrated 

 from the N. parts of Asia to England by Constantinople, Vienna, 

 Italy, and France." London. 



Note (1.) All the genera here given, except Dodoncea and Turpinia, 

 belong to the sub-order Sapindeae, and have alternate leaves without 

 stipules, and stamens inserted inside the disk. 



Note (2.) All here given, except the two species of Cardio- 

 spermum, are trees or shrubs. 



1. CARDIOSPERMUM. Climbing herbs, flowers irregular, 

 sepals and petals 4, one pair of each larger, disk of 2 glands, 

 stamens 8, 4 shorter ; style trifid, capsule 3- celled, inflated. 



