238 FLORA OF MADRAS. [_Leea. 



induplicate-valvate, hooded at apex and connate in bud. Disk 

 or staminal tube cylindric with 5 lobes, connate at the base with 

 the ovary, furnished within with a dependant toothed mem- 

 branous fold ; lobes entire or more or less prominently notched, 

 sometimes apiculate. Stamens 5, the filaments inserted between 

 the lobes of the disk, inflexed ; anthers attached by their middles 

 within the tube, introrse, free or connate at their margins in bud, 

 dehiscing longitudinally ; connective thick, oblong. Ovary 

 inserted on the base of the disk, 3-6-celled ; style short ; stigma 

 scarcely thickened; ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit a 3-6-celled, 

 usually succulent, depressed-globular, lobed, berry with 3-6 

 seeds attached to the centre. Seeds wedge-shaped with a 

 hard external and membranous inner testa, the latter deeply 

 protruded in about 6 folds into the albumen ; embryo basal with 

 small ovate cotyledons, radicle long. 



Flowers red ; anthers united in bud ; lobes of staminal tube notched ; 

 leaves bipimiate, leaflets ovate-lanceolate,, long* acuminate, dark 

 brown to nearly black when dry, main nerves curved upwards with 

 3-4 serratures each, transverse nervules irregularly subparallel 



1. Wiglitii. 

 Flowers white or greenish white : 



Leaves simple or with few large pinnules ; anthers united in bud ; 

 herbaceous imdershrubs : 



Leaves simple, cordate, hoary puberulous beneath, very large, 

 main nerves distant, slightly curved, branching near the margin 

 into 3-4 small serratures ; transverse nervules irregular ; lobes 

 of staminal tube entire or slightly cleft ; fruit black 



2. macrophylla. 



Leaves with 3-5 large pinnules, the lower ones sessile or nearly 

 so, hoary puberulous beneath, main nerves distant, branching 

 towards the margin into 3-5 serratures ; transverse nervules sub- 

 parallel, branched ; lobes of staminal tube notched ..3. latifolia. 

 Leaves pinnate, sometimes bipinnate, main nerves close and 

 parallel, as also the transverse nervules ; anthers not united in 

 bud ; lobes of staminal tube notched ; tindershrubs : 



Stems, petioles and inflorescence branches with crisp wings; 

 leaflets usually oblong, with one main nerve to each serrature 

 and sometimes an intermediate small one, nearly glabrous ; ripe 



fruits steel-grey 4. crispa. 



Stems, etc., without crisp wings ; ripe fruits black : 



