284 XXXIX. AMPELIDEiE. [Vitii. 



under side with a close felt-like tomentum. Peduncles longer than the petioles, 

 bearing at the summit two branches, one sterile (a tendril), the other developing 

 into a panicle several inches long. Flowers (only seen in the bud) pedicellate. 

 Calyx truncate or crenulate. Petals free. Filaments glabrous ; anther alniost 

 orbicular, scarcely half as long as the filament. Disk lobed, style very short. 

 The bunches of ripe fruit attaining 1 to 21b.; berries black, ovoid-globose. Seeds 

 4, the sides transversely corrugated. 



Hab.: Walsh Eiver, T. B. Gardiner, who says that the best fruit and largest bunches are 

 found on plants growing upon limestone country. The specimens examined bore no tendrils 

 except on the inflorescence. 



2. LEEA, Linn. 

 (After J. Lee.) 

 Petals united in a campanulate corolla with 5 spreading or recurved lobes. Disk 

 (resembling a staminal tube) cup-shaped, conical, or nearly globular, 5-lobed, 

 enclosing the ovary. Stamens inserted in grooves outside the disk, the filaments 

 incurved at the top, with the anthers inside the disk in the bud. Ovary enclosed 

 in the disk, 3 to 6-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. — Shrubs or small trees, 

 without tendrils. Leaves once, twice, or thrice pinnate, with large entire or 

 toothed penniveined leaflets. Panicles or cymes leaf-opposed, corymbose. Flowers 

 usually larger than in Vitis. 



The genus is dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa, ths only Australian spBcies being the 

 most common among the Asiatic ones. — Benth. 



1. Ii. sambucina (supposed to resemble an Elder tree) ; Willd. Spec. PI. i. 1177 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 461. " Kalet." A tall, glabrous, coarse shrub, the young 

 branches occasionally furrowed. Leaves mostly twice or thrice pinnate ; leaflets 

 few; in each pinna, from ovate to oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, acuminate, usually 

 3 to 6in. long and 1^ to 2in. broad, but sometimes twice as long, irregularly 

 crenate, the primary arcuate pinnate veins and transverse veinlets very prominent 

 underneath. Cymes large, divaricate, trichotomous, on short peduncles. Flowers 

 about 2 lines long, on very short pedicels. Ovary 5-celled. Berries small, 

 depressed-globular, usually ripening 4 to 6 seeds. — DC. Prod. i. 685 ; L. staphylea, 

 Eoxb., W. and Arn. Prod. ,132, with the synonyms adduced ; Wight. 111. t. 68 

 and le. PI. t. 78. 



Hab.: Islands of Howick,s group, F. v. Mueller ; numerous localities on the N. E. coast. 



The, speeies is common in tropical Asia, and is, perhaps, the same as a common African one. 

 — Benth. 



Wood hard, close-grained, of a pinkish color, and nicely marked.— BoiZeu's Gat. Ql. Wooii 

 No. 87. 



2. I.. Brunoniana (after ,E. Brown), C. B. Clarke in Brit. Joiirn. Bpt. xix. 

 105. Nearly glabrous, upper leaves 2 (or often 3), pinnate ; leaflets elliptic, very 

 shortly acuminate, primary nerves numerous, continued nearly to the margin, 

 often setulose,, corymbs glabrous. 



Hab.: Australia, i{. Br., No. 5272; Port Darwin, Sehultz, No. 627. Called L. sambuciTiahy 

 Benth., PI. Austr. i. 451. But not merely the colour of the flowers, but the venation of the 

 leaves totaUy differs from L. sambucina, Willd. The present species is like a very handsome, 

 well-developed L. rubra or L. setuligera.— Clarke, I.e. 



The notice of this genus is here given in full from the Flora Austr. as well as Clarke's (from 

 the Journ. of Bot.) Mr. Bentham probably had only very imperfect specimens, thus I would be 

 m favour of retaining Mr. Clarke's name. I have so far only met with one species. Baron 

 Mueller, m_the 2nd Syst. Census of Austr. Plants, records two species, viz., L. Brunoniana, 

 Clarke, and L. stwphylea, Eoxb., this latter is only another na,me for L. sambucina, Willd. I 

 cannot, however, find any reason given by him for recording these two species for Australia. 



