Smilaz.] CLVI. LILIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 307 
many-fid., solitary and bracteate towards the base or two ona long common peduncle, 
special peduncles 2-3 in., very slender; pedicels 2 in. ; bracteoles small, ovate; male fl. 
4 in. diam., sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse ; petals very narrow ; staminodes of fem. 
Lë: ovary oblong ; stigmas very long, free to the base, revolute; ovules solitary 
(or 1-2 in one cell solitary in the others P). 
15. S. Kingii, Hook. J.; branches very stout granulate, leaves 5-10 in. 
orbicular-ovate or elliptic and very large cymbiform petiolar sheaths 
ickly coriaceous 5—7-costate from the base, petiole 2-3 in. ; umbels 1-3 on 
à very short common peduncle, partial peduncles 1-3 in., pedicels 13-2 in., 
sepals 1 in, long. 
Katayan PENINSULA ; Perak, King’s Collector. 
P eg 40 ft.; branches angular, lower as thick as the little finger with many 
na spines j in. long. Leaves very smooth on both surfaces; nerves obscure, 
van eg petiole as thick as a goosequill; sheath cymbiform of lower leaves with 
me mes large spines; cirrhi very stout. Fem. fl. sepals broadly oblong-lanceolate, 
a petals very narrow; staminodes 3; ovary oblong; style one-third as long, 
ma much longer than the style. Berry lin. diam. Male fl. not seen. 
16. 8. pallescens, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 198; branches terete 
arte leaves 5-10 by 2-3} in. narrowly oblong tip rounded and 
peti A caudate thin pale 5-costate from the rounded or subacute base, 
^e fin. obscurely sheathing articulate at the middle. 
UrreR Assam; in the Mishmi hills, Griffith. 
ý è solitary specimen of this fine species consists of a branch with leaves and 
Fri with a solitary flower. The branch is unarmed, not scabrid like 
oh ag and hardly warted as described by De Candolle, but granulate; the 
lin “re very slender, 2-5 in. long, white, the umbels 1-3-nate, peduncles 
om ae oricate, the bracts are all gone.—I have seen no flowers. Griffith describes 
as greenish-brown spotted with red, and with white anthers, 
§ Branches smooth, usually aculeate. 
middle mbels solitary rarely 2-nate; peduncle bracteate or not below the 
tri t feror, Wall. Cat. 5119; branches stout aculeate, leaves 23-35 
Get elliptic or ovate- or obovate-oblong acute or mucronate rigid 
theathin ase cuneate or rounded, petiole i in. broad coriaceous 
qual, ate tumidly for half its length, sepals and petals oblong sub- 
103, "e (nens 6-9 one-third shorter than the sepals. A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 
die |. o ina, Maxim. Dec. v. 172 (the Indian plant). S. Thomsoniana, 
Grifth (K Hiwanaya ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim alt. 5-8000 ft. J. D. H. BENGAL, 
‘ ind distrib. 9440). MUNNIPORE, Watt.—Disrris. Tonkin, 
shrub ; branches strongly prickly, terete, branchlets unarmed, angled. 
ticle jointed ate and elineolate, marginal nerves very slender, nervules faint; 
leva, are at the sheath. ` Um hel from the young shoots only, of which the 
"rely 2-nat membranous subglaucous beneath; peduncles rather stout, solitary, 
Inte ah) 2 71 in. long or shorter ; bracteoles ovate, acuminate sepals {—} in. long, 
Berries 1 58 ,, Petals similar; staminodes 3 ; ovary oblong, short styles, stout. 
*etimens an, 1-2.seeded.— The stamens are certainly sometimes 9 in Sikkim 
Sn, Chin, e Candolle remarks on the close affinity of this with the ‘“‘ China, 
lt further” Which he refers to sect. Nemezia, having 2-ovuled cells of the ovary ; 
"Ver, they dEtishes S. ferop by the leaves not cuneate at the base, which, 
dei istinguish S. Thom- 
a Variety. imes are, I find no characters whereby to distinguis 
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