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bhexual: petals distinct: fruit globose, 1-2-seeded: flowers yele 
lowish. 
Peninsula, flowering in March and April. | 
(6) V. Nerzcnerrensis. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Neilg. Plants I. p. 32. 
Engrav. Wight’s Spicil. I. t. 36. 
Srzc. Cuar. Leaves palmately trifoliolate, dentate, middle one 
broad oval, acuminated, lateral ones unequal-sided, with a longish 
acumination : cymes terminal: peduncles longer than the leaves: 
petals distinct: flowers greenish. 
Kotagherry. 
‘ (7) V.zarzara. (Wall.) 
Ident. Roxb. fi, Ind. II. p. 478. 
Sprc. Cuan. Leaves cordate, sinuately toothed, slightly 3-lobe 
ed: stem, branches and petioles covered with long bristles : clusters 
disposed in oval bunches, bearing a dichotomous tendril. 
Silhet, flowering in August. 
“ (8) V. parvirotia. (Rozb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 662. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves angled, cordate, 3-lobed, crenato-serrate, 
smooth: stipules oval: thyrse few-flowered: flowers very small, 
green. 
Eastern parts of Bengal, flowering in February. 
GENUS Ill. LEBA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. In honor of James Lee, a famous nursery gardener at 
Hammersmith. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous, shrubby or slightly arborescent plants : 
tendrils none: leaves usually pinnate: calyx 5-cleft: petals 5, 
combined at the base: disk bearing the corolla and stamen-tube; 
the tube combined with the corolla at the base, 5-lobed: lobes 
alternate with the petals: filaments adnate to the outside between 
the lobes: anthers attached by their middle, usually cohering at 
their edges: ovary 6-celled, with a solitary, erect ovule in each 
cell: style and stigma simple: berry 3—-6-celled. 
(1) L. rosusta. (Roxd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 1832.—Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 655. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub; young shoots coarsely pubescent: leaves 
2-3-pinnate ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, lateral ones broadly cordate 
