4il2 Gr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



4 Leea PAUCiFLORA, King n. sp. A shrub 12 to 15 iu. high ; the 

 stems slender, glabrous, sparsely lenticeliate. Leaves pinnate, the rachises 

 and petioles sub-terete ; leaflets 3 to 5, oblong to elliptic-oblong, the ter- 

 minal one larger and broader than the lateral, all with short rather 

 blunt acuminate apex, the edges with a few remote shallow serrations 

 or sometimes almost entire, the laterals slightly oblique towards the 

 rounded or cuneate base : both surfaces glabrous and shining, the reticu- 

 lations very distinct on the lower when dry : main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 

 faint, spreading : length of the lateral leaflets 2*5 to 4*5 in., breadth 1 to 

 2*5 in., the terminal one from 4*5 to 6 in. long, and from 2 to 3*5 in. 

 broad : petiokiles of the laterals *2 to '3 in. long, of the terminal about 

 •75 in. Cymes terminal, capi4;ulate, densely few-flowered, about '35 in. 

 in diara., on pedicels '35 in. long. Colour of flowers unknown ; lobes of 

 staminal column broad, very slightly emarginate, covered with pale dots. 

 Fruit depressed-globular, deeply lobulate, glabrous, about '4 in. in diam., 

 white when ripe and with little pulp. 



Perak: Scortechini, King's Collector, K"o. 1113. 



This is allied to L. siviplicifolia Zoll., but differs in its leaves which 

 are never simple and which have 3 to 5 leaflets smaller than in the 

 pinnate forms of i. simplicifolla. The cymes of this are moreover 

 few-flowered and much smaller than in that species, and the lobes of 

 the staminal column in this are broad and very slightly emarginate or 

 sub-entire, whereas in L. simpUcifoUa they are more deeply bifid than 

 in any species here described. The ripe fruit of this is moreover stated 

 by Kunstler to be white. 



5. Leea gigantea. Griff. Notul. IV, 697: Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 645, 

 fig. 3. A tall shrub or small tree ; young branches puberulous, lenti- 

 celiate. Leaves often several feet in length, 3-pinnate, the rachis and 

 petiole sub-terete, not winged : Zea/?e^5 oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 and abruptly acuminate, coarsely and sharply serrate, the base cuneate ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, shining; main nerves 8 to 13 pairs, spreading ; 

 the connecting veins numerous, wavy, sub-horizontal, and very pro-* 

 minent on the lower surface ; length 5 to 10 in, ; breadth 2'25 to 4 in. ; 

 petiolules of lateral leaflets '3 to '75 in., the terminal two or three 

 times as long. Cymes in a la^i many- branched spreading panicle from 

 9 in. to 2 feet across, minutely puberulous or glaLrescent. Floivers 

 purplish red, the buds oblong ; staminal tube with acute bifid teeth. 

 Fruit depressed-globular, smooth, black when ripe, with scanty pulp, 

 •25 to '3 in. in diam. Seeds flattened, with dorsal ridge, the sides 

 irregularly ribbed. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 42, pt. 2, p. 

 65 ; Vol. 44, Pt. 2, p. 178 ; For. Flora Burma, J, 280 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Trimen's Journ. Bot. for 1881, p. 140. L. Samhncina, Wall. Cat. 6823 B 

 (in part). L. Staphijlea, Wall. Cat. 6823 K. 



