666 XLiii. AMPELiDE^. (M. A. Lawson.) [Leed. 



serrate prominently penninerved scabrous on both sides and with 

 scattered white appressed hairs between the nerves above, nerves 

 parallel straight one running to every other serrature. Edgeworih in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 36 ; Brandis For. Fl. 102. 2 L. herbacea, WaU. 

 Cat. 6829, and 6824 E & G {in paH) under L. staphylea. 



Westeen Teopical Himalaya, from Jamu to Nipal, ascending to 6000 ft. ; Oddh, 

 Khandeish. Westekn Pesinsdla, Wight; the Concah, Law ? 



Stems herbaceous, erect, 2-4 ft., pubescent, not crisped. Leaves membranous or 

 Bubcoriaceous when old. Cymes small, pubescent. Anthers distinct. Fruit the size 

 of a large currant, black, succulent. — ^Nearly allied to L. crispa, from which it may be 

 always readily distinguished by the want of the crisped wings on the stems and petioles, 

 and by the white appressed hairs on the intercostal spaces. L. cispera. Wall. "Cat. 

 6825, belongs to L. rohmta, but the specimens in Wall. Herb, under 6824 e and g in 

 part are the true plant. 



8. Xi. piimila, Eum in Jowrn. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, n. 302 ; stems and 

 rachis not winged, leaves abruptly or imparipinnate 4T5-foliolate, leaflets 

 4 in. unequal subfaJcate oblong-lanceolate entire puberulous on both sides 

 especially beneath chartaceous. 



Tenasseeim, Kurz. 



A small perennial herb, 'covered with a dense fulvous or cinereous pubescence. 

 Bachis and cymes ferruginously tomentose. towers small, in axillary branching sab- 

 paniculate cymes, shorter than the leaves. Sepals ciliate and usually thinly hirsute. 

 L'etals broadly oblong, ciliate. Squamm bifid woolly within. — The above description is 

 taken from Kurz. I have seen no specimen. It would appear to be allied to L. tri- 

 foliaia. 



9. Ii. trlfoliata, Laws. ; young parts very slightly pubescent otherwise 

 glabrous, leaves 3-foliolate leaflets shortly stalked 2-8 by f-S in. elliptic 

 subacuminate sharply serrate very thin and membranous, nerves slightly 

 arcuate one running to every other serrature. 



Assam, Jenkins, &c. ; Bhotan, Booth; Mishmi hills, i 



A small rather wiry plant, 1-2 ft. Cymes small. Anthers distinct. Fruit the size 

 of a currant, black, dry. — Closely allied to L. aspera, but wanting the white hairs oil 

 the intercostal spaces, and differing apparently greatly in habit. 



Sect. III. Leaves 2-3-pinnate (pinnate leaves may be occasionally found 

 in young or starved plants). 



* Leaves glabrous. 



10. Xi. parallela ; leaflets 6-10 by 1-2 in. very shortly stalked lan- 

 ceolate or oblong-lanceolate sharply serrate drying a pale glaucous-green. 



Assam, JenHns; Biema, Boxburgh. 



Shrubby? whole plant quite glabrous. Leaves pinnate or bipinnate, 2-3 ft., sub- 

 coriaceous. Flowers small, glabrous'; peduncles long. Cymes freely branching. 

 Anthers connate. Fruit the size of a pea, dry. — Very closely allied to L. angustifolia, 

 differing only in the shorter broader and more sharply toothed leaves, and larger cymes. 



11. Ii. sambuclua, WiUd. Sp. PI. i. 1177 ; leaflets 2-10 by j-iiin. nar- 

 rowly-lanceolate to ovate-oblong or oblong acute or acuminate serrate 

 shining drying black. Hoxb. Fl. Ind.i. 657 ; WaU Cat. 6823; DC. Prodr. i. 

 635 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 698 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. 644, t. i. ; Brand. For. Fl. 102. 

 L. aequata, Wall. Cat. 6824 d (not of DC), h. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 6830. 

 L. gigantea, Griff. Notul. iv. 697. L. Iseta, WaU. Cat. 6831 ; Kurs in Journ. 

 As. ijoc. Beng. 1873, ii 65. L. ottUis, DC. Prodr. i. 636. L. War. 

 sanguinea, Wall. Cat. 6824 M. ; Kurz in Journ. As. Hoc. Beng. 1873, ii 66. 



