416 G. King — -Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



(not of Willcl.) ill Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 666 (in part). L. laeta, Wall. 

 Cat. 6831 A and B ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Yol. 42, pt. 2, p. 65 ; 

 Vol.44, pt. 2, p. 179: For. Flora Burma, I, 278; C. B. Clarke?, c, 

 p. 103. L. sanguinea, Wall. Cat. 6824. 



Andaman Islands : common. — Distrib. Along the base of tlie 

 Eastern Himalaya, the Assam Range and Burma. 



I cannot see how Wallicli's two sets of specimens named L. acumi- 

 nata and L. laeta are to be distinguished as species — the solitary differ- 

 ence which I can find between them being that, in L, laeta the cymes 

 are more condensed and have shorter peduncles than in L. acuminata. 

 I have therefore, in spite of the high authority of Mr. C. B. Clarke 

 who keeps them distinct, ventured to unite them. The species, as 

 I understand it,, is allied to L. samhucina, Willd., but is a much smaller 

 plant and has coral-red, not green, flowers in rusty-pubescent con- 

 densed cymes, and red fruit. 



9. Leea Curtisii, King n. sp. An erect shrub 4 to 5 feet high : 

 young shoots deciduously puberulous. Leaves 2*5 to 3 feet long, bi- 

 pinnate, the rachises channelled, the petiole terete ; leaflets elliptic or 

 oblong-elliptic, shortly caudate-acuminate, remotely crenate, the bases 

 cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower transversely reticulate ; 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, sub-ascending, prominent on the lower 

 surface ; length 3*5 to 4*5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in. : petiolules of the 

 lateral leaflets about *3 in., of the terminal 1*5 in. Cymes on a long 

 stout peduncle, umbellate, branched ; the branches lax, spreading, few- 

 flowered. Floioers large, obovoid, in pairs with deciduous bracteoles 

 at the base. Calyx glandular-hairy, pure white, its lobes spreading. 

 Petals reflexed, whitish-yellow, teeth of staminal tube entire. Fruit 

 unknown. 



Perak : on Waterloo Peak, alt. 1500 feet ; Curtisj No. 2872. 



Collected only by Mr. Curtis who describes the young leaflets as 

 beautifully marked with silvery-grey variegations along both sides of 

 their midribs. This appears in its foliage to resemble the imperfectly 

 known Bornean species L. amahilis the leaflets of which, however, have 

 more nerves and more serrations. 



10. Leea rubra, Blunie Bijdr. 197. A shrub 1 to 6 feet high ; 

 young branches minutely scaly-pubescent, ultimately glabrous. Leaves 

 2- to 3-pinnate, the main rachis angled and sometimes slightly winged : 

 leaflets 3 to 5, ovate to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, coarsely serrate, 

 rounded or sub-cuneate at the base, sub-sessile ; main nerves 6 to 

 10 pairs, winged and crisped and, in young leaves, with minute black 

 hnir along their sides, otherwise glabrous on both surfaces. Cymes .on 

 peduncles '5 to 2'5 in. long, furfuraceous rusty-puberuloas, condensed 



