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at the base, serrated, cuspidate, hairy underneath : stipules villotis’s 
cymes supra-decompound, villous: stamen-tube cup-shaped: ans 
thers linear-oblong : flowers small, green. 
Cirears, flowering in-the rainy season. 
(2) L. ireeriroria.. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl, Ind. I. p. 659.—W. & A. prod. I. p. 182. 
_ Spgc. Cuan. Small tree: leaves super-compound; lower pair 
of pinne bipinnate: leaflets lanceolate, acuminated, entire, slightly 
downy beneath: corymbs supra-decompound : tube of the corolla, 
shorter than the calyx: stamen-tube cylindrical, with grooves run- 
ning down almost to the line of union with the corolla: anthers obe 
long, pointed. 
Circar valleys. . 
(8) L. starryted. (Roxbd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 182.—Roxb. fl, Ind, I. p. 658. 
Syn, L. Ottilis, Dec. prod. I. p. 686. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. II. t. 26.—Burm. Ind. t. 94. f. 2.—» 
Wight’s Icon. t. 78. Ill. I. t. 58. 
Srec. Cuar. Shrub; leaves from compound to supér-decom- 
pound; leaflets from oblong with a short point to linear-lanceolate 
with a long point, coarsely serrated, glabrous: cymes super-decom- 
pound, the ultimate branches sometimes roughly pubescent: sta- 
men-tube urceolate, the grooves disappearing above the line of 
union with the corolla: anthers broadly oblong: flowers pale-green. 
Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. Grows also in Upper 
India. : 
(4) L. Macropuytia. (Roxb. ) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 653.—Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 41.— 
Drury’s Useful Plants, p. 385. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1154. 
Sprc. Cuar. Stem herbaceous, erect, jointed: leaves large, sim< 
ple, broad-cordate, toothed, glabrous: cymes terminal, large: berry 
depressed, smooth, black-when ripe: flowers small, white. 
Hills in the Concans, flowering in the rainy season. The tube- 
rous root, which is astringent and mucilaginous, is reputed to be a 
remedy for the Guinea-worm. 
(5) L. crispa. ( Linn.) 
Ident. Dec. prod. I. p. 635.—Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 654. 
Syn. L. pinnata, Andr. Bot. Rep. V. t. 355. 
Srec. Cuan. Herbaceous: stems jointed: leaves pinnate : leaf 
lets oblong, serrated: cymes small, slightly hairy, 5-flowered z 
