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A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEA. 
By ©. B. Cuarxz, M.A., F.L.S. 
Tue species of the genus Leea indigenous to British India are 
arranged by Prof. Lawson, in Sir J. D. Hooker’s ‘ Flora of British 
India,’ 1., 664-668. My friend Sulpicius Kurz has subsequently, 
in the ‘ 5 ournal of the Asiatick ety of Bengal,’ 44, u., 178-180, 
and in his ‘ Flora of British Burma,’ i., 278-281, dealt with the 
genus in a very different manner. In naming up my own collection 
of yenen Labs for distribution, I have been obliged to compare 
Lawson and Kurz. In the follow ing notes I have for convenience 
ineluded all the Indian species, but I feel little confidence in the 
limits of any except the Bengal ones, all of which I know well by 
sight, as I took rather a special interest in the genus. 
Leea is known, when in flower, from Vitis by the prominent 
white and fay staminal tube; when in fruit, by the saree 
inher of cells (4—8) in each berry. It is also Se aialig know 
ty its Bien habit and want of tendrils; but there are iw 
dian Vines, viz., V. spectabilis, Kurz, and V. cordata, Wall., which 
are upright, without stipules. In the fruits of Leea some of the 
carpels often are abortive, so that 1-3-seeded berries are pea : 
but in most fruiting examples s some 4-6-seeded berries o _ 
As regards the characters that should be employed for specific 
Senor in this Gan I have no absolute reliance on those used 
by Lawson and Kurz, but have no better to propose. Lawson 
dinitys “the sihieiOL, of the leaves for primary divisions, and then 
places as the only species in his first simple-leaved section a plant 
(Leea latifolia, Wall.) that has pinnate leaves. Kurz relies much on 
the notching of the lobes of the staminal tube, which i fe a very 
uncertain character in the well-known species; for i 
character of his Leea gigantea the mark, ‘seeds tubercled-keeled, 
the edges tubercled-ribbed ”; but the seeds of all the eet known 
the neta flower so long as wet; but directly the sun dries it 
the filaments Wiesietten themselves, and the anthers are long- 
exserted. I know no species, nor have I seen a single plant, w — 
. ayngeneaious' ; and Brandis (as well as Lawson) introduces the 
