Smilaz.] CLVI. LILIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 
Branchlets slender, terete, smooth, unarmed. Leaves rather thin, 3-costate to 
the rounded or cuneate base ; petiole narrowly sheathing, unarmed, cirrhi very 
slender. Umbels many-fld.; peduncle ebracteate; pedicels 1-3 in.; bracteoles 
subulate; flowers very small, white; buds depressed-globose, deeply 6-lobed from the 
groove on the back of the obovate cucullate coriaceous sepals ; petals minute ; 
stamens very short; staminodes in fem. fl. 3.—There is an excellent figure of this 
in Roxburgh’s collection of drawings. That author describes the leaves as white 
beneath, but this is not obvious in herbarium specimens. The roots are nodose, as 
in the “ China-root.” 
2. S. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 5131; leaves 4-6 by 3-14 in. oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate 3-costate glaucous beneath base acute, petiole 4-4 in., 
sheath obscure, umbels few-fld. sessile on an axillary rachis, pedicels 
decurved. 4.DC, Monogr. Smilax, 60. 
SINGAPORE and PERAK, Wallich, Cantley, Wray, King's Collector ; summit of 
Mt. Ophir, Hullett. 
Tanchlets strict, terete, or slightly grooved, unarmed. Leaves opaque, costa 
stout, reticulations faint ; petiole jointed about the middle. Flowering branches 
in., erect, slender, with a lanceolate bract above the base; umbels 3-4, l in. or 
more apart ; pedicels io-i in. unequal; male fl. globose, about 3 in. diam.; sepals 
deltoid, fleshy, concave, deeply grooved down the back ; petals small, flat; anthers 
sessile round a circular disk, deltoidly ovate, cuspidate. Berries } in. diam., red. 
em. fl. not seen. 
3. S. peguana, A. DC. Monogr. Smilax, 62; leaves 13-3 by 3-1} in. 
elliptic oblong or ovate-oblong 5-7-costate white beneath, base acute or 
cuneate, petiole 4-2 im. sheath very obscure, male umbels axillary very 
shortly peduncled many-fld., pedicels very short, anthers subsessile. 
BURMA, Grigith (Kew Distrib. 5124); Taipo hills, Brandis; Moolyet, alt. 
8000 ft., Gallatly. 
Branchiets slender, terete, unarmed. Leaves shining above, laxly reticulate on 
bo Surfaces ; petiole twisted, terete. Peduncle rarely longer than the petiole ; 
cteoles minute, broadly ovate; pedicels 1 in. ; flowers Je in. diam.; male sepals 
ovate, Concave, coriaceous, not channelled on the back; petals very small, oblong , 
obtuse; anthers broad ; filaments very short.—The specimens are few and not in 
Soe state. Griffiths No. 5424, referred by A.DC. to Aypoglauca, is certainly 
ana, 
4. S. myosotifiora, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 65; branches slender 
terete, leaves oblong-ovate ‘caudate-acuminate 3-costate, petiole short, 
: ls very narrow, peduncles short axillary solitary compressed, male fl. 
"sessile, anthers minute sessile. S. extensa, Wall. Cat. 5126 A. 
PEnana, Porter PE Wray, King’s Collector —DistR1B. Java. 
ranches very «moth, unarmed. Leaves 5-7 by 2-21 in., thin when dry, trans: 
t when fresh, nervules very delicately closely reticulate, base cuneate rounde or 
su Cordate 3 petiole 1 in., cirrhi slender. Male peduncle } in.; flowers A in. diam., 
ovoj qP tate, rather fleshy ; sepals broadly oblong, incurved ; petals narrow ; th ors 
"Q1. artes $ in. diam., l-seeded ; fruiting peduncles 1-1 in. ; pedicels 173 v R 
` male flowers of Javan specimens are a good deal larger than the Indian. à om: 
tame VTT. Wallich’s S. extensa being a mixture I have retained De Candolle 
e for this; his specimen of this had neither flower nor fruit. 
reet. II. Euswuax. Buds oblong or clavate. Sepals and petals 
urved in flower. Ovules one or two in the ovarian cells. 
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shorten De very small or minute. Sepals ;';-} in. long. Stamens much 
T than the sepals ; staminodes 1-3. l 
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