668 XLiii. AMPELiDEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Zeea. 



as though Eoxburgh, in his description of the cjmea of L. rdbusta, had taken his cha- 

 racters from specimens belonging to this species. 



15. Ill Urta, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 655 ; branches and leaves hairy, leaflets 

 4-12 by 2-4 in. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrate hajsh and 

 scabrous above hairy beneath, cymes very short and compact, bracts incon- 

 spicuous. Wall. Cat. 6822. L. scabra, SUud. ii. 21. 



SiKKiM HiMALArA, AssAM, SiLHET, the Khasia Mtb., East Behgal, Chittagoho, 

 Pegu, and the Andaman Islahds. — Distbib. Java. 



Shrubby, with coarse subscabrous branches and petioles. Veins arched. Cymes 

 2-5 in., very compact, densely hirsute. Flowers large. Anthers connate. Fruit the 

 size of a currant, black, dry? — Keadily known from L. robusta by its abundant and 

 harsh pubescence and inconspicuous bracts ; and from L. diffusa by its very short and 

 compact cymes. 



D0T7BTPUI. AN1> EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Leea coedata, WaU. Cat. 6019, appears to be a Vitis near V. pdlUda; the speci- 

 men is insufficient. Kurz in Joum. Ai. Soc. Beng. 1873, pt 2, 66, refers it doubtiully 

 to a form of V. Linricei. 



Leea odontophtlla, Wall. Cat. 6820 (leaves only), is probably a Viiis, allied to 

 V. latifolia. 



Order XLIV. SAPINDACEJE. (By W. P. Hiem, M.A.) 



Trees, shrubs, or rarely stout or wiry herbs. Leaves alternate or less 

 commonly opposite, exstipulate or occasionally stipulate, pinnate palmate tri- 

 foUolate or simple ; leaflets opposite or alternate, entire or dentate, occa- 

 sionally lobed. Mowers mostly polygamo-dicedous and smaU, usually either 

 irregular or unsymmetricaL Calyx mostly 4-5-lobed or -sepalous, often 

 unequally so, imbricate or valvate in the bud. Petals free, equal or unequal, 

 usually 4-5 or 0, the fifth sometimes deficient, flat or in one genus cup- 

 shaped, often bearded or squamate at the base within. Disk annular or 

 unilateral, rarely in (J flowers deficient. Stamens 5-10, inserted inside the 

 disk at the base of the ovary or outside or on the disk, sometimes unilateral ; 

 anthers 2-celled, basifixed or versatile ; filaments often pubescent, almost 

 always free. Ovary centric or excentric, entire or lobed or sometimes divided 

 nearly to the base, 1-4-celled ; cells 1-2- or rarely more -ovuled. Style simple 

 or divided, usually terminal ; stigma usually simple. Ovules anatropous cam- 

 pylotropous or amphitropous, usually 1 or 2 together, occasionally more, 

 affixed to the axis of the ovary, ascending. Fruit capsular or indehiscent, 

 entire or lobed, sometimes winged. Seeds globose or compressed, arillate 

 or naked, exalbuminous or in some genera albuminous. Embryo usually 

 thick, sometimes plicate or spirally convolute. — Distrib. About 400 to 500 

 species scattered over the whole world, especially abundant within the 

 tropics ; 83 occur in Austraha ; 37 in Tropical AQ-ica ; 20 are given by 

 Eoissier in the " Flora Orientalis." 



Teube I. SapindesB. Stamsns inserted inside the disk, sometimes 

 unilateraL Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves exstipulate, alternate or in jEsculrts 

 opposite. 



Flowers irregular. Disk unilateral or very oblique. 

 Ovules solitary. Leaves alternate, not digitate. 

 Fruit capsiJar, inflated, globose or pyrifonn. Leaflets biter- . 

 ■late 1, Caediospebmuh. 



