A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEBA, 101 
character ‘ ee connected ” or ‘ anthers free ” into the specific 
descriptions. z has ignored this SHereneen, and, I doubt not, 
rightly ; the ‘“ psf ” theory seems @ priori improbable ; 
while, if the mucilaginous flowers ar pressed wet, the anthers 
appear connected in the herbarium. 
The colour of the berry is an excellent character in the field, 
of 
and, I elas. absolute, z.e., none of the red-berried species hee 
ever been known to produce a re berry ; but all these berries 
wither to black at last. The berries of Leea are exceedingly acrid 
till the moment when they Hh perfectly ripe, when they are 
edible, and resemble in flavour small grapes. 
The colour of the flowers has been used by Kurz as a discrimi- 
nating mark of species, and it is, in my judgment, one of the best, 
most decisive, and most absolute in the genus; the petals in one set 
of sone are a greenish white, in another set a fine red. I have 
never known a case in whic alt one 0 ie ae flowered aa pro- 
ris a greenish white flow r vice he ¢ of the 
petals is so marked that : can he distinguialied in the piketeatione 
in fairly-prepared example 
Series A. Rubriflora.—Petals red. (All with compound leaves ; 
none arborescent; none with the close primary nerves of 
the Sect. Pycnoneure). 
Sect. 1. Enazwortaim. Leaves all 1-pinnate. 
1. L. anata, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc., xx. 36.—Glabrous or 
nearly so, leaves 1-pinnate, ripe berries red. 
Laws. in Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 665 ; Brand: For. Fl. 102; L. rubra, 
Royle Ill. 145, not of Blume; L. Staphylea, Wall. “vist 6824, 
. partly, not of Rox 
Sirmoor, Wallich ; Gurwhal, Falconer ; North-west India, Royle ; 
ct Dhoon, Edgeworth ; Sikkim Terai, J. D. Hooker ; Sikkim Terai 
 sgirtun oor be are alt. 0-500 feet, C. B. Clarke. 
, 2-5 feet high, stiff not succulent. Leaves pinnate 
none 2. -pinnate in the herbarium tips of branches, nor do I pauline 
any 2-pinnate lower leaves. Leaflets in the upper leaves 5-9, 
10 by 24 in., oblong, shortly acute, rounded or rhomboid, unequal 
ieee stipules large, steadied ein ous. Peduncles 8-8 in 
out. Coryms dense, Senegee ts minutely seni agin! feng 
brani and bracteoles none, even in the corymbs ¢ 
only, gone of the staminal ibe Sate: oblong: emarginate, erries 
+} in with 4-6 carpels.—Kurz s ays, in “Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng., ai ii. -'180, that his L. sanguinea in ‘ Journ. As. Soc. Beng.,’ 
42. ii. 66, deseri ‘bed with much more compound le aves and an 
orange berry, was L. alata, Bdgw. I believe Kurz never saw 
alat 
