104 A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEA. 
L. acuminata, Wall., but differs therefrom by its very glabrous 
corymb. rom Kurz saying that the inflorescence of his species 
was ‘glabrous or nearly so,” and feo his expressing an opinion 
that L. coccinea might be only a weaker form of L. leta, I cannot 
get rid of a suspicion that Kurz by L. coccinea meant L. acuminata, 
Wall., the more especially as I geo Kurz had in his possession a 
totally different species authoritatively (but wrongly) marked 
L. acuminata, Wall. 
Sect. 3. Rusrz. Leaves often 3-pinnate. 
ra, Blume, Bijd., 197.—Upper leaves 2-3-pinnate ; 
i 
short-peduncled ; ripe ue Pho red.— Decne in Ann. 
d’Hist. Nat. iii. 445; Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 453; Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. i. pt. ii. 610 ; in Ann. Mus. Lugd. ‘Bat. i. 96; Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soe. 44, ii. 180 ; For. Fl. i. 279. —L. sanguinea, Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc. 42, ii. 66 ? 
Dacea, pletial and throughout the Mudhopoor Jungle, C. B. 
Clarke; Pegu, M‘Lelland: Tenasserim, Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 
1281) ; Attaran, Brandis fide Kurz.—Distrib. Throughout Malaya 
to Borneo, and Cambodia. 
he “scarlet dwarf,” rarely more than 1-2 feet high, but 
spreading, ~~ and suffrutescent. a ie, leaf often thrice- 
pinnate. aflets 2-3, rarely 4 in. long, oblong or elliptic, acute, 
hardly aceeeunte: sessile or scarcely petiolated, rhomboid or cuneate 
at the base, glabrous. Primary nerves (in a terminal leaflet 3 in. 
long) 11, much ‘ibd beneath in the dried example, but sais 
ingly thin and acute, crisped ; the bristles on these nerves are 
good specific character, but are very small and scarcely to be found 
in ce leaves ; crenations irregular, shallow, obtuse, often 2-8 for 
ain nervy 
pic 
more persistent than i ost species. Peduncle 4 in., stout, 
more or less 4-winged; corymb dense, often not amie than the 
petiole; bracts and bracteoles 0, even in th mbs in bud. 
have been either L. alata, Edgw., 4. sanguinea, Wall. At least, 
L. sanguinea, Wall., as to the type- Lipeiainad in Wallich’s herbarium, 
