140 A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEA. 
all. ii. 470; DC. Prodr. i. 683; Wall. List. 6823, a, C, part B 
partly; Brand. For. Fl. 102; Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. 44, 11. 179, 
For. Fl. i. 279; not of Benth., nor ~ Baker ——L. Staphylea, Roxb. 
a 
Asi Pro 182; Wight, ios 78 alz. & Gibs b 
Fl. 41; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 64.—L. Ottilis, DC. P. 
636.—Leea viridiflora, Planch. Hort 6.—Aquilicia Sam- 
bucina, Linn 211; Cav. Dissert. vu. t. 218, — 
. Man 2 optime. 
Staphylea amas Burm. Fl. Ind. 75, t. 24, fig. 2. Aquilicia Ottilis, 
Gaert i, 275.—Ottilis Zeylanica, Gaertn. Fruct. t. 57.— 
Gastonia Natga, Lamk. Dict. 611.—Gilibertia Sale, DC. 
chiang te 256.—Rumph. Herb. ihasb iv. t. 45. Rheede Hort. 
al. ii. 
(scarce). No example at Kew from Australia, Africa, or its islands. 
A stiff, branching shrub, 4-10 feet high. Kurz says that in 
Burma it is sometimes a treelet 15-20 feet high; I have never 
seen it with anything like a trunk. = (flets 4 by 24 in., rhomboid 
oe sereded at the base ; jews nerves 12 on each side the midrib 
apart, curving much near the eats of the leaf, crenatures 
oren acute or subserrate) ie 8 to each primary nerve; secon 
nerves less distinct than in most species ; =e ules $-} in 
stipules caducous. Corymbs 8-6 in. diam.; bracts and fee 
inconspicuous, early deciduous. Born y +-} in. diam.; pyrenes 
4-6.—Some of the Malay Peninsula examples have very large 
leaflets, or ate stout corymbs. The species appears to become 
a. 
attributes to his L. sambucina red berries; it could, t therefore, not 
have been the Bengal sambucina. ae Malay ‘‘ sambucina”’ is nearly 
all of it red-petalled, is the same as the Australian sambucina of 
Bentham, and belongs to Series Rubriflore. The Madagascar sam- 
ae and the tropical African sambucina also have red petals. 
ar. occtdentalis.—Corymb-branches stout, buds much shorter 
and broader than those of ‘the Bengal sambucina.—This appears to 
be the common Malabar form, from Concan to Ceylon ; here 
belong Wall. List. 6824, A, B,D, H. It would appear from the 
plants of Roxburgh found in Wallich’s Herbarium that Roxburgh 
considered the Bengal and Malayan plant to ea L. peices the 
oetdentalis alive ; it is a form not found eastw ; I cannot, there: 
fore, hazard nny opinion regarding its specif separ lity 
ANTEA, Griff. Notul. iv. 697, Pl. 645, 
fig. 3, not of ta —Shrubb by, ‘ith a Agate cuake -iahivied pier 
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