470 PEftTANDRiA monogynIa. leea. 



^refti Dasee, ^TIT, Kaka, ^t^SJ^fl, Dhwankshwwjwngha, 

 3\I3uf?T, Kakahwa, SprthRgilj C/lomusha. 



Seng. Kakttjangha. 



A native of the lower parts of Bengal. Flowering tinle the rainy 

 season. 



Stems several, somewhat woody, flexuose, jointed. Bark green- 

 ish, slightly scabrous ; branches few, and like the stem. — Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, from simple to decompound. — Leaflets opposite, 

 oblong, serrate, scabious and hairy on both sides, particularly on the 

 Under one, from two to eight inches long, and from one to three broad. 

 •—Petiole and petiolets lound, scabrous and hairy. — Stipules petiolary. 

 — Cymes terminal, three-parted. — Nectary inserted into the edge of 

 the projecting ring which surrounds the mouth of the tube of the corol, 

 the tube of which is erect, and five-^parted; divisions oblong, emargi- 

 nate — Filaments five, the length of the nectary, and inserted into the 

 bottom of its five fissures. Anthers oblong, three-fourths or more lodg- 

 ed within the mouth of the nectary, with their points downwards, 

 and firmly coalescing at the sides into a tube. — Berry ; when ripe it has 

 much the appearance of a black currant, a little flattened, generally 

 six-seeded, when dry it appears with as many lobes, (torose). — Seeds, 

 &c. exactly as in the former and following species* 



Obs. by N:W. 

 I have received specimens of this species from Silhet (and also of 

 X.. Staphylea) gathered on the hills bordering on that district, under 

 the Bengalee name Popaiora (c*rM.$ 3<ri). — N. W. 



5. L. sambucina, Willd. spec. i. 1 177. 



Shrubby. Leaves from simple to decompound ; leaflets ovate, ob- 

 long, serrate, smooth. Cymes super-decompound. 

 Frutex aquosus, foemina, Rumph. amb. iv. t. 45. 

 Aqulicia Sambucina, Linn. Mant.Qll. Gaert. carp. 2. 127. t. 103. 

 A native of the Moluccas, from thence introduced in the botanic 



