136 A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEA. 
. 685; Laws. in Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 655 partly; Kurz in Journ 
re Soc. 44, ii. 179; For. a i. 280. —L, pinnata, Andr. Bot. Rep. 
v. t. 355. 
Ben, ngal, Assam, Chittagong, Pegu; common in the plain 
Less frequent in the hills up to 2500 feet alt. in handel 
A stiff shrub, 4-8 feet. There are no bipinnate lores in the 
herbarium, nor hay ve Lany recollection of such. Leaflets 4-7 in., 
rarely at all caudate, obtuse at the base, subsessile, or some of them 
with petiolules } in. long; primary nerves 12-15, or even 24 on 
ach side the mi int 
somewhat winged; nearly glabrous or slightly pubescent ; bracts 
subpersistent, 1-4 in., linear; bracteoles } in., lanceolate. Petals 
green, agers ~- white ; lobes shortly bifid, emarginate or 
mucronate. often 4 in. diam., passing from green 7 a 
mealy black- bind te going through any yellow stage.—Linne 
says his L. crispa was oe on a South African plant which aise 
to him from Herb. Ro The example now in Linneus’s own 
herbarium, which came fro om Herb. Royen, and is named L. crispa 
y Linneus’s hand, is exactly the Bengal plant; but no Leea is 
known from South Afri ica, and no Leea at all near L. crispa from 
Tropical Africa 
12. L. aspera, Edgw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 36.—Upper 
leaves simply pinnate, or sometimes somewhat bipin nate, petioles 
and rhachises round or scarcely winged, leaflets rere rag 
. For. Fl. 102; Laws. in Fl. Brit. . 665, 
not of hdr nor of Kurz. L. staphylea, Wall. List. 6824, @ and 
t of Roxb. 
Novth-weat Himalaya, alt. 2000-5000 feet, from Kumaon (Edge- 
worth) to Kashmir (Jacquemont) frequent ; and up to 7000 feet near 
Dalhousie, C. B. Clarke. Chota Nagpore, alt. 2000 feet, frequent; 
Parasnath, Ranchee, &c., C. B. Clarke. Bombay, Capt. Geturne ; 
oncan, Law. Anamallays, Wight, nn. Le 526.—One of the 
eaves bipinnate. Leaflets not parallel-sided; primary nerv 
carried very nearly (rarely quite) to the edge, gr curved a 
bifurcated, so that the peas ns of the margin are often nearly 
twice as many as the primary nerves, and less ica than those of 
L. crispa: upper surface asperous in Edgeworth’s type specimen, 
but the bristles are more often obsolete. Corymb bracts, flower an 
yellow her first Heth some of my examples the bracts are 
nearly an inch long, the brnsteoles + in. lanceolate-linear some- 
what persistent; but they are hardly worth eisegan h a “variety 
of.—This species must be called L. asper a, Edgw., n 
for Wallich’s note (in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. ‘Wall, ii. 168) "probatly 
