AMPELIDE^E. V. LEEA. VI. LASIANTHEBA. GERANIACE.E. 



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* * Leaves usually pinnate, very seldom blpinnate. 



8 L. ACULEA'TA (Blum, bijdr. I. c.) stem roundish, furrowed, 

 prickly ; leaves pinnate, quite smooth, with coarsely-serrated 

 leaflets ; corymbs decompound. T? . S. Native of Java. 



JPn'cHy-stemmed Leea. Shrub 8 feet. 



9 L. HI'RTA (Herb. Banks, Horn, hort.hafn. 1. p. 231.) leaves 

 pinnate, and sometimes bipinnate, with lanceolate-serrated hairy 

 leaflets; anthers connected. I? . S. Native of the East Indies 

 in the lower parts of Bengal and Nipaul. L. scabra, Roxb. 

 mss. Stems many, flexuous, jointed. Leaflets from 2 to 8 

 inches long, and from 1 to 3 broad. Cymes terminal, 3-parted. 



' Nectary inserted in the edge of the projecting ring, which sur- 

 rounds the ovary. Berry black, resembling a black currant, 6- 

 seeded, when, dry 6-lobed. 



Hairy Leea. Fl. Oct. Nov. Clt. 1823. Shrub C feet. 



10 L. CRispA(Lin. mant. 1 24.) herbaceous ; stem and branches 

 fringed at the angles ; leaves pinnate, with oblong, serrated 

 leaflets; anthers free. Tf.. S. Native of the East Indies, 

 common among bushes near Calcutta ; and of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. L. pinnata, Andr. bot. rep. t. 355. Rheed. mal. 2. 

 p. 43. t. 26. Stems swelled above the joints. Leaflets usually 

 5, but in very luxuriant plants they are sometimes compound. 

 Cymes small, a little hairy, 5-flowered. Flowers small, white. 

 Urceolus of stamens with entire divisions, with the anthers 

 lodged within its mouth. Berries round, size of a small cherry, 

 when ripe smooth and black. 



Cttr/erf-stemmed Leea. Fl. Oct. Nov. Clt. 1767. Sh. 5 ft. 



1 1 L. A'SPERA (Wall. fl. nep. mss.) leaves pinnate, with 

 oblong, lanceolate, serrated, villous, rather scabrous leaflets; 

 stem and branches rather curled at the angles ; anthers free. 



fj . S. Native of Nipaul. 

 TfougA-leaved Leea. Shrub 6 feet. 



12 L. /EQUA'TA (Lin. mant. 124.) stem round, pubescent; 

 leaves pinnate, with lanceolate, acuminated, serrated leaflets, 

 pubescent when young. 1? . S. Native of the East Indies. 

 Leea hirsuta, Blum, bijdr. Corymbs trichotomous. Flowers 

 small, greenish. 



Even Leea. Fl. Oct. Nov. Clt. 1777. Shrub 6 feet. 



* * * Leaves simple. 



13 L. MACROPHY'LLA (Roxb. hort. beng. p. 18. fl. ind. 2. p. 

 465.) herbaceous ; leaves simple, stalked, broad-cordate or lobed, 

 posterior lobes overlapping each other ; cyme trichotomous ; 

 root tuberous. Tf. . S. Native of the East Indies. Leaves from 1-2 

 feet long, and nearly as broad. Flowers numerous, small, white. 

 Urceolus of stamens with entire divisions. Anthers inverted 

 within the mouth of the urceolus. 'Berries much depressed, 

 size of a small cherry, obscurely 6 or more lobed, with an equal 

 number of cells, when ripe black and succulent. The root of 

 this plant promises to yield a colour fit for dying ; its taste is 

 astringent, and it is mucilaginous. 



Long-leaved Leea. Clt. 1806. PL 4 feet. 



Cult. These plants are scarcely worth cultivating, except in 

 general collections. They will all thrive well in a mixture of 

 loam and peat, or any light, rich soil, and large cuttings root 

 readily in sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 



VI. LASIANTHE'RA (from Xa<T<oc, lasios, woolly, and av- 

 Oripa, anthera, an anther ; anthers hairy). Beauv. fl. d'ow. 1 . 

 p. 85. t. 51. D. C. prod. 1. p. 636. 



LIN. SYST. Pentandria, Monogynia. Calyx 5-toothed. 

 bracteolate on the outside. Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 5, in- 

 serted in the bottom of the corolla ; filaments broad, alternating 

 with the lobes of the corolla. Anthers oblong, hairy. Style 

 short. A small climbing shrub with simple leaves. 



1 L. AFRICA NA (Beauv. fl. d'ow. 1, c.). Tj . ^. S. Native of 

 VOL. i. PART. viii. 



Africa near Chama, on the banks of the river St. Yago. A 

 suffruticose climber, with ovate-oblong, entire, cuspidate leaves. 

 Peduncles leaf-opposed, umbellately branched at the apex. 

 Flowers capitate, as in Aralia. 



African Lasianthera. Shrub cl. 



Cult. This plant will thrive in any light loamy soil, and 

 large cuttings will strike root in sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 



ORDER LIV. GERANIA'CE.& (plants agreeing with Ge- 

 ranium in important characters). D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 838. prod. 

 1. p. 637. Sweet, Ger. Gerania, Juss. gen. 268. 



Calyx permanent, of 5 sepals (f. 119. a.); sepals more or 

 less unequal, imbricate in aestivation, sometimes one of them 

 is drawn out into a hollow spur at the base, which is closely 

 connate to the peduncle. Petals 5 (f. 119. b.), (rarely 4, one 

 of which being abortive very rarely absent altogether) ungui- 

 culate, alternating with the sepals, equal or unequal; in the 

 first they are hypogynous, in the second they are usually 

 inserted in the calyx or connected together. Stamens with 

 the filaments rarely free, but almost always monadelphous 

 at the base, disposed in a simple series, hypogynous or perigy- 

 nous, equal or double in number to the petals, rarely triple that 

 number as in Monsonia, sometimes some of them are sterile, 

 equal or unequal. Ovary at first 5-celled (f. 1 1 9. d.\ ending in a 

 long thick style, crowned by 5 stigmas (f. 119. e.). Carpels 5, ra- 

 ther membranous, indelnscent, 1 -celled, biovulate, at first pressed 

 to the base of the torus, each ending in a style or awn, which is 

 closely adnate to the angles of the torus, but after maturity twist- 

 ing variously from the base to the apex, and by their elasticity 

 separating the carpels from the torus (f. 119. e.), but still adhering 

 at the middle to the top of the torus. Seeds solitary in the carpels, 

 pendulous, exalbuminous. Embryo curved, with a deflexed 

 radicle directed to the bottom of the carpel, with leafy, con- 

 volute, or flexuously plicate cotyledons, which are sometimes 

 lobed. Herbs or soft-stemmed shrubs, with the young stems 

 jointed at the articulations, and separable as in Ampelidece, 

 Lower leaves opposite, upper ones alternate, with the peduncles 

 opposite the leaves as in Vitis, but never changing to tendrils. 

 Flowers of various hues, solitary, or umbellate on the peduncles. 

 The Pelargoniums, commonly called Geraniums, are well known to 

 all gardeners for their beauty, and the facility with which hybrid 

 varieties are produced among them. M. de Candolle remarks 

 that of the true Geraniacece some are slightly acid, especially 

 those with succulent leaves, some exhale a resinous smell, which 

 is sometimes agreeable, but occasionally so powerful as to be 

 unpleasant. This resinous principle is so powerful in Sarcocau- 

 lon L'Heretieri, that its stem burns like a torch, and exhales an 

 agreeable perfume. The most common property of the Euro- 

 pean Geraniums is to be astringent, which is chemically deter- 

 mined by their juice being blackened by sulphate of iron ; this 

 is particularly remarkable in G. Robertianum and G. sanguineum, 

 which are both accounted vulnerary, and Erbdium. moschatum 

 and G. pratense, in which it is united to a slight aromatic prin- 

 ciple, whence they have been recommended for various purposes, 

 and among others for removing calculous disorders. The G. 

 macttlatum, which grows in great abundance about Philadelphia 

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