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6. Leba angulata, Korth. ex Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. T, 97. 

 A bushy tree 20 to 30 feet high, the stem with many sharp thorns, the 

 branches and lower part of the petioles and peduncles with a few scat- 

 tered short thorns. Leaves about 1 foot long, .2- rarely 3-piunate : the 

 rachis angled, channelled on the upper surface, and the common petiole 

 dilated at the base: leaflets 5, rarely 7, glabrous, narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, shortly acuminate, distantly serrate-crenate, the terminal 

 one equal-sided at the base, the laterals oblique, all crenate ; main 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs in the' lateral, and 9 to 12 pairs in the terminal 

 leaflet, spreading, slightly prominent on tbe lower surface but not 

 winged or crisped ; length of the laterals 1'5 to 2 - 5 in., of the terminal 

 3 to 4'5 in. ; breadth "85 to 1*25 in. ; petiolules - 1 to '25 in. Cymes 

 on glabrous slightly prickly peduncles 2 to 3*5 in. long, open, branching, 

 measuring 3 in. across, almost glabrous ; bracteoles minute, lanceolate, 

 in pairs. Flowers dull white. Staminal tube 5-toothed. Berries depress- 

 ed-globose, black and juicy when ripe, "35 in. in diam. L. horiida, 

 Teysm. and Binn. (name only) Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor, ed. 1866, 

 p. 169. L. Malayana, Scortechini MSS. L. aculeata, C. B. Clarke 

 (not of Blume) in Trimen's Journ. Bot. for 1881, p. 105. 



Perak: Wray, Nos. 3325, 3803; Scortechini, No. 1829; King's 

 Collector, Nos. 1145, 7066. Pabang: Ridley, No. 2583. Nicobar Is- 

 lands : Kurz, King's Collector. — Djstrib. Java. 



This differs from L. aculeata, Bl. in being a larger plant and in 

 having white, not red, flowers. L. aculeata has moreover simply pinnate 

 leaves with about seven leaflets of larger size than in this ; tbe rachis 

 in the leaves of that moreover is not winged, nor is the base of the 

 petiole dilated. 



7. Leba sambucina, Willd. Sp. PI. I, 1177. A shrub 4 to 10 feet 

 high; young branches deciduous ly adpressed-rusty-puberulous. Leaves 

 15 to 20 in. long, 2- rarely 3-pinnate, the rachis and petiole not winged : 

 leaflets oblong or elliptic, shortly and sharply acuminate, coarsely and 

 sometimes rather unequally serrate, the base slightly cuneate; both 

 surfaces quite glabrous; main nerves 7 to 12 pairs, rather prominent 

 beneath, spreading ; veins not prominent, transverse ; length 3 to 6 or 

 even 9 in., breadth 1*5 to 3 in. ; petiolules of the lateral leaflets *2 to 

 •4 in., the terminal one two or three times as long. Cymes on stout 

 peduncles several inches long, (sometimes 6 in.), spreading, rather lax, 

 almost glabrous, not usually more than 8 or 9 in. across. Floictrs 

 greenish- white, the buds sub-globular: staminal tube yellowish-white, 

 its lobes notched. Fruit depressed-globular, smooth, black, pulp scanty, 

 •3 in. in diam. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 18 ; Fl. Inch ed. Carey II, 470 ; 

 DC. Piodr. I, 633; Wall. Cat. 6823, A, C, and part of B; Blume Bijd. 



