FUis.'l XLIII. AMPELIDE^ (baKEK). 41', 



cottony tomentura. Tendrils in the specimens. Flowers in con^cstetl 

 cymes not more than 1 in. broad, on firm, woody, slightly matted peduncles 

 about 1 in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx 1 line broad, deeply cyathi- 

 form, brown, scarious, not lobed. Buds ' frlobose, naked. JStainens and 

 petals 5, the latter crimson. Style 0. Fruit not seen. 



liower Guinea. Huilla and Puiigo Andotigo, Angola, Dr. Welwilsch ! 

 In everything except the leaves this resembles V. heracleifolia, and it i« Dot unlikL-Iv 

 they may be two forms of one species. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



78. V. Figariana Webb, Frag. Ft. Mhiop. 58 (Cm«.j). Stem short, 

 erect, the whole plant clothed with hairs and purplish setjc. Leaves sessile 

 with 5-7 leaflets (shape not stated). Flowers in terminal cymes. Ovary 

 glabrous. Style short. Calyx and purplish corolla setose like the rest of 

 the plant. • 



Nile Laud. Nubia, Figari. 



2. LEEA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. i. 3SS. 



Calyx cyathiform, deeply 5-lobed. Petals 5, partially connate with the 

 tube of stamens, at first cohering by their edges, finally recurved. Stamens 

 5, the filaments connected by a tube which is more than half as long as the 

 corolla, the anthers bent over its edge and united together in a ring inside 

 it. Ovary 5-6-celled. Style short. Fruit a depressed, dry, 5-r)-cellcd 

 beri'y with 1 seed in each cell. — Shrubs with opposite pinnate or rarely 2- 

 pinnate leaves. 



A small genus almost confined to tropical Asia. 



Corolla -I- in. deep 1. L. sambucina. 



Corolla 1 in. deep 2. L. lutctorui. 



1. L. sambucina, TFilld. ; DC. Prod. i. G35. A subcrect woody 

 shrub about 8 ft. high, w^ithout tendrils. Branches woody, terete, naked. 

 Leaves with a terminal leaflet and 1-4 shortly stalked similar ones on each 

 side, or rarely 2-pinnate below; leaflets elliptical, 4-8 in. long, 2-3 in. 

 broad, the apex pointed, the edge distantly and not deeply toothed, the base 

 rounded; texture firmly membranous, both sides glabrous. Flowers in n co- 

 piously branched sessile or pedunculated cyme with tomentose or naked 

 branches. Calyx cyathiform, green, villose, with 5 teeth which are about ns 

 broad as deep. Corolla oblong, \ in. deep, glabrous, bright red on the out- 

 side, yellow within or entirely orange. Petals 5. Corona more than half na 

 deep as the corolla, connate with it below, free upwards, the aV^n faintly 

 toothed, the filaments equalling it and the anthers joined edge to viV^^c inside 

 it. Berries hard, naked, depresso-globose, 5-6-see(led, 5-G.suleatc. J -J in. 

 broad.— Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 131. L. gnitieoni^, Don, Gen. Svst. i. 

 712. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Sierra Ixonc, and the Ni-tr (.•..miti\ , „ mu uu v^ an 

 collectors. " One of the greatest oniamcuts of the forest." 



