A large shrub with numerous tough branches. Leaves glabrous, very large, muchdivided; leaflets oblong or elliptic-oblong, coarsely and irregularly serrate, petioledilated at the base into sheathing stipules. Flowers white in large branched corymbosecymes. Fruits black, purple, depressed globose. (India) Small tree (Laos) A shrub, treelet or small tree 2-10(-16)m tall, many- or single-stemmed, frequentlystilt-rooted, stems glabrous to pubescent; leaves (1-)2-3- pinnate, leaflets 7-numerous,rachis (6-)10-35(-60)cm long, petiole (6-)10-25(-35)cm long, stipules obovate, up to6cm x 4cm, early caducous, usually glabrous, leaflets ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate or elliptical to elliptical-lanceolate, (4-)10-24(-45)cm x (1-)3-12(-20)cm,base cuneate to rounded, apex acute to acuminate, margin serrate to shallowly dentate,pearl-glands small, inconspicuous, rapidly caducous; cyme (5-)10-25(-40)cm long,usually lax, sometimes compact, glabrous to pubescent, bracts deltoid to narrowlytriangular up to 4(-8)mm long; flowers greenish-white, calyx about 2-3mm x (2-)3-4mm, glabrous to pubescent, staminodial tube about 2-2.5mm long, upper free partabout 1-2mm long, lobes shallowly retuse, notched or cleft, sinuses shallow, ovary (4-)6(-8)-celled; berry 5-10(-15)mm in diameter, purple-black, 6-seeded; seed 5mm x4mm Leea indica is widespread and common in primary and secondary forest, andaround villages (often coppiced), in wet areas as well as ridges, from sea-level up to1700m altitude. (Malaysia)