278 | AMPELIDEE. [ Leea. 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, on woolly ion ay 3. im. long, 
5-6 in. long, coarsely serrate-toothed, more r less acute at the 
este 
aig, 
LEEA, L. 
Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, united at the base and with the 
5-lobed or 5-cleft staminal tube. Filaments inserted between the 
lobes of the tube and turned inwards. Ovary inserted on the _ 
5-6- ; with a solitary ovule m each cell. Berry 3-6-celle 
oe erect, with a hard testa.—Little trees or erect. shrubs or 
undershrubs, with simple or variously pinnate or decompound 
leaves. Flowers small, in leaf-opposed corymbose cymes. 
“ wes ample, — or some “ge i 
lobes of staminal tube ; > weeny eo 
Leaves usually pinnately folie hardly ¢ ucescent an q 
minutely puber rulous, beneath ; geet of = Bare tube eles L. latifo a 
x : 
t Inflorescence with persistent and conspicu 
bracts and bractlots flowers sessile of tees oe so L. compactifiora, 
-Bracts. and bragtlets minute, usually y 
pped before the flower-buds are properly: 
ree: ped. 
es coriaceous. ers greenish-white. 
a = dark-green ‘bes of staminal ae liek notched; seeds 
pedeghe: S00 .ie .  « B, sambucinds. - 
Leaves glaneous, the leaflets usually linear on lanceolate ; : lobes of 
eS ere. whet, seeds ene ad. rae 
on the back . 
A x spe rhore oe ress membranous. me 
or 
Leaflets 6-8.in, long;. inflorescen so -tomentose 
Leaflets only aha in in. of Ta inflorescence glabrous early 80 
00 ~~" Shee L Beliggoent or or stiff- pa at least the 
nerves bene 
