Smilaz.] CLVI. LILIACEX, (J. D. Hooker.) 311 
A lofty climber; branches terete, sparsely prickly. Leaves shining, acute or 
cuspidate, or young acuminate, base rounded or cordate, margins of petiolar sheath 
ineurved. Common peduncle 1-1} in., stout, bracteate at the base; bracteoles 
subulate; pedicels 4-% in.; male fl. largest, filaments very slender ; fem. with 
narrower petals; staminodes 3 ; Ovary broadly ovoid; stigmas sessile. Berries à in. 
diam.—Wight’s figure is inaccurate in representing the coste of the leaf as free to 
the base, and peduncles and pedicles as far too slender.—De Candolle gives 
Khasia hills, Kurz, as a habitat, but I have seen no specimens, and suspect some 
error, 
27. S. polyacantha, Wall. Cat. 5197; branches slender closely 
pretty, leaves 4—6 by 13-2 in. coriaceous elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at 
roth ends 3-5-costate from above the base, petiole stout narrowly sheath- 
mg below the middle, umbels solitary or 2 on a very short common 
peduncle many-fld., fem. sepals } in. long. Kunth Enum. v.939; A.DC. 
Monogr. Smilax, 176. 
Penang, Porter, . 
Branches terete, as thick as a crow-quill, prickles short, straight. Leaves 
mas ed into the petiole, which is 3-1 in., strongly 3-costate with slender sub- 
marginal nerves; cirrhi slender. Common peduncle very stout, partial (fruiting) 
Hl in, stout; receptacle ovoid; bracteoles minute, ovate; fem. fl. very small. 
ary with short recurved styles. 
28. S. Roxburghiana, Wall. Cat. 5115; branches terete, branch- 
d tangled, leaves 5-8 in. polymorphous oblong ovate or ovate- 
ceolate base rounded cordate or cuneate 3-5-costate from above the 
tae, petiole with very large broad 2-auricled sheaths below the middle, 
umbels solitary or 2-3 on a common peduncle many-fld., sepals + in. long, - 
"ar-oblong, stamens as long as the sepals. S. ocreata and orthoptera, 
Monogr. Smilax, 193; 8. macrophylla, var. cacharensis, A.DC. l. c. 
mn o Prolifera, Wall. Cat. 5124 B, D, ix part. S. laurifolia, Roxb. in 
+ €. 
S TROPICAT, HIMALAYA from Garwhal Eastwards, SILHET, CACHAR, the KHASIA 
ILLS and BEHAR (on Parus-nath). hoots 6 b 
4 dme more or less prickly; branches smooth. Leaves on young s peli or 
oe ity thin, lanceolate base acute, petiole 4-1 in.; in older 8 by 33 in., or " 
vate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, on still older 5-7 by 24-4 in. oblong on uen , 
cortceous 5-costate, base rounded cordate or truncate ; coste in a unite 
dene e base; auricles in old leaves 1-1} in. produced behind into rounded lo es 
embracing the branch. Umbels 1-3; peduncles very variable in length and posi- 
n, common peduncle 1-3 in., bracteate at the base; receptacle globose ; one 
umbels 12-15-fid., pedicels } in., slender; staminodes 3; stigmas long, recurved: 
erie 4 in. diam., pedicels as long or longer. Seeds 2, hemispheric or solitary an 
globose, Jess than } in. diam. 
eB. me ) 186; branches terete 
` Sacarpa, A Dr Monogr. Smilax, ; 
abort ,narmed, leaves 3-7 in. elliptic ovate or oblong 3-costate from 
iode base, etiole 3-11 in., sheath short narrow, umbels many-Hd., 
Bel + in, Slender, sepals i in. long ligulate, petals very parom 
bas "TY long slender, berry the size of a cherry 3-seeded, 
E Grifith. MarAcca, Maingay. PERAK; Larut, Kunstler. 
* lonkin, . . 
Té are two forms (or ies) included here, differing greatly in foliage, 
ù x hasian and Malayan, AN peice) in their remarkable fruit and seeds. DU 
the E “ing branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, very rigid, "lv acu “nate 
sian the leaves are elliptic or ovate 3-4 by 1- nearly 2 in., obtusely acum 
