Leea.] AMFELIBEM. 175 



Common throughout the drier parts of the area, and often growing in 

 hedges. Distbib.: Tropical Himalaya and hotter parts of India, extend- 

 ing to Ceylon, Burma and the Malay Penins. Flowers during the rainy 

 season. The leaves of this plant are often used in the form of a poultice 

 in the treatment of hoils. 



2. LEEA. Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 664 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely small trees, branches striate or sulcata, often 

 herbaceous. Leaves alternate, usually very large, simple or 1-2-3- pin- 

 nate ; jpttiole dilated at the base into sheathing stipules. Peduncles 

 opposite the leaves. Tendrils 0. Inflorescence corymbosely cymose. 

 ^Zower.v red, yellow or green. Calyx 5-toothed. Pf? a/* 5, connate 

 at the base and adhering to the 5-toothed staminal tube, revolute. 

 Filaments inserted between the lobes of the tube. Ovary inserted on 

 the disk, 3-6-celled ; style short ; stigma swollen ; ovules solitary in 

 each cell, erect. Berry 3-6-celled and -seeded, subglobose, flattened 

 at the top. Pgrenes wedge-shaped.— Species about 50, mostly in 

 tropical Asia and Africa, a few Australian. 



Petals red, leaves simply pinnate . . . 1. L. alata. 

 Petals greenish-white. 



Herbaceous, leaves simple • . . 2. L. macrojphylla. 



Shrubs, leaves l-S-pinnate. 



Leaves simply pinnate or the lower ones 

 bipinnate ; leaflets scabrous above, 

 primary nerves close and parallel . 3. L. aspera. 



Leaves 2-3-pinnate, glatrous on both sur- 

 faces, primary nerves of leaflets distant 4. L. samhucina. 



Leaves 2-pinnate, hairy beneath ; primary 



nerves of leaflets distant . . . 5. L. hradeata. 



1. L. alata. Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XX (1846), 36 ; F. B. L i, 665 ; 



Brand. For. Fl. 102 ; Clarice in Trimen's Journ. Bot. {1881), 101. L. rubra, 



Boyle III. 145 {not of Blume). 



A stiff shrub, 2-.^ ft. high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves simply pin- 

 nate ; leaflets of the upper leaves 5-i^, lu by 2^ iv.., oblong, shortly acute, 

 rounded or rhomboid, sessile or nearly so, glabrous or minutely puber- 

 ulous on the nerves beneath ; primary nerves 8-12 on each side of the 

 midrib ; secondary nerves numerous, subparallel, conspicuous ; stipules 

 large, rounded, deciduous. Peduncles 3-8 in., stout. Corymb dense, red- 

 dish, hardly pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles none. Petals red. Lobes 

 of the staminal tube ovate-oblong, emarginate. Berries i - ^ in. in diara., 

 with 4-6 pyrenes. 



Dehra Dun, Eohilkhand, N. Oudh. Distbib.: Outer Himalaya and from 

 Sirmur eastwards, Sikkim Terai. Flowers during Juue and July. 



