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3. Vitis himalayana, Brandis ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 655. Glabrous, 
climbing over tall trees. Leaves digitately compound ; leaflets 3, 
shortly stalked, ovate, 1^-5 x 1-2^ in., sharply toothed, long- 
pointed, upper surface dark green, shining, lower pale ; lateral 
leaflets unequal-sided. Flowers yellow-green, in spreading cymes. 
Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 4 or 5. Berry J in. diam., black. (Fig. 31.) 
Simla, common ; April, May. — W. Himalaya, 6000-11,000 ft. — China. 
In autumn the leaves turn bright red or ruddy brown. 
4. Vitis divaricata, Wall. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 657. Pubescent. 
Stems slender, sometimes very long. Leaves digitately com- 
pound ; leaflets 3, stalked, ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 x 3-4 in., toothed, 
long-pointed ; lateral leaflets unequal-sided, often cordate and 
lobed. Flowers red-brown, in small, umbellate cymes. Petals 5. 
Stamens 5. Berry J in. diam., black. 
Simla ; July. — Temperate Himalaya, 4000-7000 ft. 
5. Vitis capreolata, D. Don ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 659. Glabrous. 
Stems creeping, wiry. Leaves pedately compound; leaflets 5, 
shortly stalked, ovate-lanceolate, toothed, long-pointed, unequal, 
the terminal one largest, 1-2^ in. long. Flowers yellow-green, in 
small, umbellate cymes. Petals 4. Stamens 4. Berry J in. diam., 
black. 
Simla, the Glen, Mushobra, on rocks and tree trunks ; July-September.^- 
Temperate Himalaya, 4000-7000 ft. 
2. LEEA. In honour of James Lee, a noted nurseryman and 
botanist of the eighteenth century. — Tropical regions of Asia and 
Africa, rare in Australia. 
Leea aspera, Edgew. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 665, under L. aspera. 
Wall. A robust, spreading shrub, 2-10 ft. ; stems and branches 
grooved. Uppermost leaves usually simply pinnate or the lower 
pinnae with 3 leaflets ; lower leaves 2-pinnate ; leaflets 5-7 in each 
main division, shortly stalked, cordate-ovate, 5-6 x 2-3 in., 
abruptly tapering into a long point ; principal veins about 14 
pairs, prominent, parallel ; margins coarsely toothed ; both sur- 
faces minutely bristly, rough Flowers yellow-green, in spreading, 
leaf-opposed, nearly glabrous cymes. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, 
oblong, bases united and adnate to the staminal tube. Stamens 
5, lower part of filaments united in a 5-lobed tube adnate to the 
petals. Ovary 3-6-celled ; style short, simple, stigma terminal ; 
ovule one in each cell. Berry ^ in. diam., black when ripe. 
Simla ; August, September.— Throughout India, ascending to 5000 ft. 
Mr. C. B. Clarke in Trimen's Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 136, has shown that the 
Leea of the N.W. Himalaya is L. aspera , as described by Edgeworth in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xx. 36, and is not the plant referred to under that name by Wallich 
in Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 468, which is L. robusta, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 655. 
