312 CLVI. LILIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Smilaz. 
margined, contracted at the base near to which the slender coste unite, they are 
thin shining with finely reticulate nervnles ; the petiole is 3 in. long, sheathing about 
i way up, and articulate at the tip. In the Maingay specimen the leaves are 
detached, 6 by 3 in., broadly oblong rounded at the tip, very coriaceous ; the cost 
are much stouter, they match well the older leaves of Griffith’s specimen. In both 
the umbels are numerous along the rigid branches. Umbels 1-3 on a stout 
common peduncle as long as the petiole or longer; peduncles 4-1 in. stiff; pedicels 
3-5, also stiff. Berries nearly 1 in. diam. ; seeds 3, orbicular, 3 in. diam., biconvex. 
—Were it not that Griffith’s specimen is labelled Khasia by his own hand, 1 should 
have suspected some error in the habitat. In the Perak specimens the male fl. branches 
are elongate, leafy upwards, and the upper umbels axillary, the lower arise from 
leafless scales; peduncles 3-1 in., pedicels 4 in. ; bracteoles minute. 
y Umbels more than three alternate or whorled over the rachis of à 
common peduncle. 
.90. S. prolifera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 795; branches stout terete 
prickly, leaves 4-8 by 14-6 in. from ovate acuminate to orbicular-ovate 
or oblong cuspidate 3-7-costate from above the rounded or subcordate 
base, petiole 1-2 in. sheathing portion usually forming two large basa 
amplexicaul erect or reflexed auricles, racemes elongate, umbels 10-20 
3-nate or whorled many-fld. Wall. Cat. 5124, A, B, D (in part) E, G, H; 
Kunth Enum. v. 247 (excl. syn. ovalifolia). S. laurifolia, Roxb. l. c. 193. 
S. laurina, Kunth l.c. 248. S. ovalifolia, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 199 
(not of Rowb.). ? S. macrophylla, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 246. 
macrophylla, var. polycephala, A.DC. Le 194. S. umbellata, Herb. 
Heyne. 
TROPICAL WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Strachey & Winterbottom (Smilas 
Nos. 6, 7). Nepat, Wailich. Situet, BENGAL, BrnaR, Burma, the DECCAY 
PENINSULA and CEYLON. 
Stem stout, more or less strongly armed, climbing. Leaves extremely 
variable in form and size; coste 3-7, the three inner united above the base; 
sheath of petiole very variable, sometimes exactly as in S. Rozburghiana, at others n 
narrow. Umbels 30—40-fld.; peduncles 3-1} in., pedicels 3 in. ; bracteoles minu:e ; 
flowers very small ; sepals 4 in., oblong-lanceolate ; petals as long, very narrow, ` . 
often breaking off above the base in the fem. fl.; stamens as long as the sepas; 
filaments slender; staminodes of fem. fl. 3; ovary oblong; stigmas large: long; 
erect, very deciduous. Berries red, the size of a pea. Seeds small, biconvex- 
Candolle certainly errs in referring this to S. ovalifolia, Roxburgh's drawings weg 
descriptions are very precise. The ovalifolia var. nerrulosa, A.DC. l.c. 200 er 
Ceylon (Walker, a solitary male specimen) is possibly a different specie; de 
leaves are 3} by 14-2 in., elliptic, oblong, ‘apiculate, with 3 costz meeting at he 
base, the petiolar sheaths form tumid auricles nearly j in. long and at basal t e 
racemes are shorter, the flowers rather larger, and pedicels shorter than 1n We 
prolifera. Var. parvigloba, A.DC. 1. c. 200 (a solitary male specimen) Tesem is 
nervulosa in foliage, but has smaller petiolar sheaths, small panicles of minus 
flowers with sepals and narrow petals A in. long; it is, 1 think, a very ife. 
species; its habitat is doubtful, being in a miscellaneous collection of Gri t 1 
supposed to be from E. Bengal (numbered 545, Kew Distrib.), but bearing #180 
ticket inscribed **Smilax stipulacea," which much resembles a Calcutta pot. Ga : 
one. Of var. polystemon A.DC. from Burma Kurz. (n. 2636) with 8-9 sim 
I know nothing; S. feroz is the only polystemonous Indian species that I bave 
examined. 
31. S. leucophylla, Blume Enum. 18 A, C; branches terete, e 
6-8 by 2-44 in. ovate or oblong 3-5-costate from above the cuneate Weg? e 
or subcordate base coriaceous glaucous beneath, petiole 1-13 19 wit 
