1896.] G. King — Maieriahfor a Flora of ih& Malayan Pminmla, 
Penaug: Wallich^ Stoliczka, Cartifi, King* Johope; King. Pomk ; 
King's Coliector, Nos. 505, 2494. 
The specific name given to fcbia is unfortunate, as it implies that 
tlie plant is a largo one. As a matter of fact it is a much smaller 
plant thanii. angulata^ Korth. which often forms a tree 30 feet in height; 
while tliis la usually a shrub about 10 feet high. Thiti species Eias 
however very much larger leaves and panicles than any other Leea 
known to me. The floweis of this ar^ biuiah red ; the teeth of tho 
Btaniinai tube I find, contrary to tlio observations of the late Mr. 
Kiiris and Jlr, C. B. Clarke, to be bifid at the apex, My colleague 
Dr. Pmin, to whom I have shown disaections of flowers taken from Wall. 
Oat. 6823Bj (as well as fi'Om other specimens} qnite agrees with mo 
in this. As Mr, Clarke has remarked in his excellent Revinou of the 
Indian Species of Leea (Tt-imen's Joiirn* Bot. for 1881, p. 100 ei *ey.), 
the characters of the seeds of this plant have given rise to some dia- 
cuaaion. I find them to be as above described, The late Mr. Kurz (in 
Journ, Ab. Soe, Beiig., Vol 42, p. 65) described them thus : seinina 
obtuse carinata, iateribm tttherculato-costatii},'* which is a fairly accurate 
account of them. In a later number of the same J&urnalt ( Vol. 44, 
p, 178} however, he described them in these words '* seeds tuberclod- 
keeled, the edges tubercied-ribbed," which is inaccurate, Mr. Clarke, 
disregai'ding Kurz's earlier description, and not finding the seeda of 
this species to agree with his later description, assumed that Kurz must 
have had another plant before him, and for this plant Mr, Clarke has 
praposed the name (Trimen's Jonrn, 1. g,)L. iuberciih-semm. The very 
specimens described by Knrz as L, giganiea^ Griff, are liowevei\ in the 
Calcutta Herbarium, and they bear that name in his own handwriting. 
These specimens undoubtedly agree with all the sheets of Wall, Cat. 
6823B. in the same Herbarium, which Mr, Clarke regards as true L, gigan- 
tea. The truth probably is that the markings on the sides of the seeds 
which Kurz ^escribed in two ways in the Jourml of the Asiatic 
Society are post mortem appearancea— an oxplanation which is supported 
by the facts that, in bis B'lora of Bui-ma, Knrz describes them in still 
another way as "bluotish-keeled and tubercied-ribbed j " and fchatnobody's 
description agrees with Griffith's figure (Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 645, fig. 3) 
which was prohably drawn from fresh seeds ! Dry seeds taken from 
Herbarium specimens moreover vary in appearance according as they 
are examined immediately after having been boiled, or af ter some delay : 
and this is no doubt the explanation of K*arz's three differing descrip- 
tions. Tho nearest ally of this species is undoubtedly mmhucma, 
Willd J bat that species has much sniallcr leaves, leaflets and panicles, 
and it has green not red flovvei-s. 
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