1S96.] G. King — Materials f 'or a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 409 



on a tendril-bearing 1 peduncle shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4-6- 

 merons ( fide Lawson). Fruit globular, '25 in, in diam. Embamma heter- 

 antha, Griff. Notulae IV, 694. Vitis rufula, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 

 I. 94. Cissus involucrata, Miq. (not; of Spreng. ) Fl. Ind. Bafc. Suppl. 517. 



Malacca: Griffith, Main gay. Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector, 

 Nos. 678, 1084. 



There ave in Herb, Calcutta two specimens from Perak (Wray, 

 ~No. 1178 and Scortechini without number) which apparently belong to 

 this species, but which have pedate leaves with 5 leaflets. 



4. Pterisanthes pedata, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 66±. 

 Stems sparsely pubescent when young, glabrous when old. Leaves 

 pedate, 5-foliolate, oblanceolate ; the lower two smaller, the apex with 

 a short stout bristle, the edges remotely glandular-dentate in the upper 

 part ; both surfaces, but especially the lower, sparsely arachnoid-hairy, 

 the edge on the lower surface densely so : main nerves of leaflets about 

 4 pairs, spreading; length 2 to 3 in., breadth "6 to 1'25 in. ; petiole 

 about 1 in. ; petiolules about - 35 in. ; those of the lower leaflets rather 

 shorter. Inflorescence glabrous, borne on a short tendril-bearing 

 peduncle. Floivers i-merous. Fruit unknown. 



Malacca: Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 432. 



This is known only from Griffith's and Maingay's very scanty speci- 

 mens. It may be only a pedate form of P. heterantha, 



3. Leea, Linn. 



Small trees, shrubs or herbs. Branches striate or sulcate, often 

 herbaceous. Leaves alternate, usually very large, simple, or 1-2—3- 

 pinnate ; petiole often dilated at the base, stipules sheathing. Peduncles 

 opposite the leaves or sub-terminal, Tendrils 0. Inflorescence corym- 

 bosely-cymose. Flowers red yellow or green. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 

 5, connate at the base and adhering to the staminal tube, revolute. 

 Stamens united at the base into a 5-lobed tube, the filaments inserted 

 between the lobes of the tube, inflexed ; anthers exserted. Ovary 

 inserted' on the disc, 3- to 8-celled ; style short, stigma swollen; ovules 

 1 or 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit 3- to 8-celled, berry-like, usually 

 succulent, depressed-globular and lobed, pulp often scanty. Pyrenes 

 wedge-shaped, seeds compressed. — Distrib. Species about 50, mostly 

 tropical Asiatic and African, a few Australian. 

 Leaves simple, or with 3 to 5 large pinnules. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, cymes on long 



peduncles ... ... ... \. L. latifolia. 



Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces ; 



cymes on short peduncles. 



A tree ; leaflets 5 ... ... ... 2. L. grandifolia. 



