.] XLiii. AMPELiDE^. (M. A. Lawson.) 667 



L. Staphylea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 658 ; W. & A. Prodr. 132 ; Wall. Gat. 6824 

 except e, and g ; Wight Ic. 78; III. -i. 58; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 41; 

 ThwaUes Enum. 64. Aquilicia sambucina, iimw. Jfarei. 211; Ca». Diss. 7, 

 t. 218. A. ottilis, Goertn. Frud. i. 275. Gilibertia nalugu, BU. Prodr. iv. 

 256. Gustonia nalugu, Spren^. Syst. ii. 440. Ottilis zeyla nica, Gaerin. 

 Fruct. i. t. 57.) Staphylea indica, Bimn. Fl. Ind. t. 24, i.'2.—Rheede Hart. 

 Mai. ii. 43, t. 26. 



Common throughont the hotter parts of India, from the Himalaya as far west as 

 Kumaon, to Birma, and southwards to Ceylok and Malacca. — Distrib. Malay 

 Islands, China, Philippine Islands, Australia. 



Stems shruhby, with straight' branches. Leaves pinnate or tripinnate often 3i by 

 4 ft. ; leaflets stalked, very variable in size and shape ; nerves arcuate. Flowers 

 greenish-white. Anthers connate. Fruit the size of a small cherry, dry. — Wight and 

 Amott discriminate two varieties, depending for their characters upon the texture of 

 their leaves, the size of their flowers, and the nature of the staminal-tubes ; but the 

 transitional conditions between them are so numerous that they cannot be maintained. 

 L. OBqimta, DC. Prodr. i. 635, with pubescent stems and leaves, belongs probably to 

 L. hirta or L. rdbusta. A specimen of Griffith's, from Assam, with oblong acuminate 

 shai-ply and finely serrate leaflets and prominent parallel straight nerves, is probably 

 distinct. 



** Leaves pubescent. 



12. Zi. inte^rifolia, Roaib. Fl. Ind. i 659; leaflets 6-8 by 2-3 in. 



linear-lanceolate or lanceolate acuminate entire or very slightly serrate 

 glabrous above slightly downy beneath. W. & A. Prodr. 132. 



Western Peninsula ; moist valleys in the Circars, Boxburgh. 



Snbarboreons. Leaves supra-decompound, about 30 in. both ways. Cymes supra- 

 decompound, large, subcorymbose. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx. Staminal- 

 tube oylindric, the grooves running almost to the line of union with the corolla. Lobes 

 emarginate. Anthers oblong, pointed, connate. — I have seen no specimen, neither had 

 Wight and Amott, whose emended description of Eoxburgh I follow. 



13. Xi. robusta, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 655 ; leaflets 6-12 by 2^-6 in. ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate cuspidate serrate glabrous above pubescent on the veins 

 beneath, cymes compact, bracts large persistent. W. <Sc A. Prod^-. 132 j 

 Wall. Cat. 6826. L. aspera, WaU. Gat. 6825, in part. L. compactiflora, 

 Rur% in Joum. As. Sac. Beng. 1873, ii. 65. 



SiKKiM Himalata and Khasia Mts., alt. 1-5000 ft., H. f. & T. ; Martaban, Kurz.; 

 Western Peninsula, in the Northern Circars, Roxburgh. 



A large robust shrub, 5-6 ft. Bteras stout, the older parts glabrous, the younger 

 covered with a harsh coarse short pubescence. Leaves 1-3 ft. long, often broader. 

 Bracts 4-1 in., lanceolate. Flowers larger than in the other species. Anthers connate. 

 Fruit black, succulent, the size of a small cheny.— Although Eoxburgh describes the 

 cymes as supra-decompound and the bracts as linear and caducous, I believe that this 

 is the species he intended. 



14. Xi. diffusa, Lam.; young parts covered with a short thin 

 pubescence, leaflets 5-12 by 2-5 in. shortly stalked acuminate serrate dark- 

 green above with a few white appressed tairs of the intercostal spaces at 

 length glabrous paler and pubescent on the nerves beneath, cymes very large 

 and difi'use, bracts minute caducous. L. aapera, Wall. Cat. 6825, inpart. 



NiPAL, WaUich. Khasia Mts., alt. 2-3000 ft, S.f. & T. Tenasserim or Anda- 

 HAN Islands, Heifer. .tit 



A somewhat weak shrub, with more slender branches than m L. robusta. Leaves 

 thin and inembranous; nerves arched. Anthers connate. Fruit f—li would seem 



