463 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Leect. 



small, lodged in the base of the perisperm near the umbilicus, a lit- 

 tle iucurvate. Cotyledons subulate. — Radicles inferior, oblong. 



Obs. by N. W. 



This elegant shrub is well described and represented in Andrews's 

 Botanists Repository, vol. V. 355. Roxburgh was no doubt misled 

 when he adduced Nalugu of the hortus malabaricus for this species, 

 neither the text nor the figure of Rheede offering the least hint of 

 any crispate wings or margins ; it is quoted by most author*, together 

 with Rumphius's^7'w/e.i' aquosus fuemina and Burman's Staphylea '$ 

 indica for L Sambucina, Willd. (Aquilicia, Linn.) which our author 

 separates into two species. 



1 have found a shrub in various parts of Nipal growing both on 

 mountains and on valleys, and blossoming in the rainy season, which 

 on the one hand approaches to L. crispa, and on the other to L. 

 hirta. With the former it agrees in having somewhat crispate stem 

 and branches and distinct anthers ; with the latter in having villous^ 

 lather scabrous leaves, in my Mss. flora of Nipal I call it L aspera $ 

 and may perhaps prove it to be a distinct species when I shall have 

 an opportunity of comparing all the three shrubs together in this 

 garden ; but the genus labours under too many difficulties to war- 

 rant my increasing them by any doubtful addition.— N. W. 



5. L. robusta, R. 



Shrubby, jointed, pubescent. Leaves bi- and tri-pinnate ; leaflets 

 ovate-lanceolate, serrate, cuspidate. Nectary sub-globular. 



A native of the northern Circars. In the botanic garden at Cal- 

 cutta, it Mowers during the rains. 



Stems in plants five years old erect, about five or six feet high', 

 stout, simple, fiexuous, jointed, round, the woody parts pretty smooth, 

 the more tender parts rather harsh with coarse, short pubescence. 

 — Leaves alternate, from pinnate to tripinnate, from one to thiee 

 feet long, and often broader than long. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 

 the lateral ones with a broad cordate base, serrate, hairy under- 



