A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEA. 163 
Var. a genuina.—Leaves shorter than the stem, male spike nearly 
or pean sessile, female spikes contiguous, lowest bract much exceed- 
g the male spike; fruit considerably narrowed towards the base, 
4 gradually narrowing above into a much deflexed beak, which is 
as nk as the rest of the fruit. 
C. yi gen co Tausch.—Stem scabrous ; a narrow, 
aber: than the stem; male spike long-stalked, female spikes 
distant, ovate; Lae crowded, ncbatbistine: beak long, strongly 
deflexed. A rare and local form. 
Var. y minor.—Stem shorter than in var. a; leaves commonly 
as long as or even longer than the stem, male spike usually stalked, 
ae spikes usually distant; fruit stnaller. suborbicular, more 
. suddenly contracted into a less deflexed or straight beak, which is 
shorter than the rest of the fruit. This is the common British 
fe 
Var. ) argillacea.—Leaves broad, as a as or longer than the 
stem; male spike short sessile, female spikes contiguous; fruit 
suborbicular, beak short, straight. On clay soil. This var. Ihave 
observed to flower ha! in the year. 
In the case of so variable a species as C. flava, where the 
varieties ‘‘shade so ininaesoutsbly inte’ one another ‘that it is 
hich e 
awn between 
a question whether it be not advisable to a ag” from givin 
varietal names. The last quotation is from Boswell’s con- 
cluding remarks on this species, and I can fully pa them. 
A REVISION OF THE INDIAN SPECIES OF LEEA. 
By ©. B. Cranks, M.A., F.L.S8. 
(Concluded from p. 142.) 
Sect. 7. Hquarm. Leaves 2-8-pinnate, hairy sige 
mary nerves nats wry close and parallel as in Sect. Auserecd 
Ties and shrubs. 
quata, Linn. Mant. 124; leaflets lanceolate beneath, 
9-4 in. di 
a 
with tains and scattered flat circular dises, corymbs in. ee 
stout hairy, bracts deciduous ia or ges vg SGT —Miq. in i 
Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 98; Kurz i aig 44, il. ag, as 
For. Fl. i. 281.—L. hirta, Ee gS .& 287: 
Ind. ed. Wall. ii. 469; Blume, Bijd. 197 ; Wall. List, 6822; Decne. 
in Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. iii. 446; Mig. in . Bat. 1. pt. u 
612; Laws. in Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 668. —L, larsuta, Blume, Bijd. 197; 
Mi Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 612. 
stale Sikkim and Bhotan to Tenasserim, alt. 0-8000 feet; 
common erage wr Bengal Plain.—Distrib. Malaya. 
A shrub, 4-10 feet, branchlets villous. Leaflets 7 by 1} in 
acuminate, sirika at the base, hairy on the upper surface at least 
when young, primary nerves 12-15 on each side the midrib, } in. 
