Smilaz, | CLVI. LILIACE®, (J. D. Hooker.) 313 
large obtuse incurved auricles, male umbels very-man y-fld., pedicels hardly 
longer than the sepals. A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 200: 
an: Griffith, Curtis; PERAK, King’s Collector.—DisTR1B. Malaya, Cochin- 
na, 
Branches stout, quite smooth, more or less prickly. Leaves retuse acute or 
acuminate, nervules obscure. Inflorescence irregularly branched; peduncles of 
umbels 3-3 in., bracteoles obscure ; buds } in. long, clavate ; pedicels slender, about 
as long 3 Sepals linear ; filaments slender, anthers linear. 
32. S. Blumei, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 202; branches stout terete, 
leaves 8-24 in. orbieular-ovate acute or obtuse tomentose beneath stoutly 
T-costate from above the base, petiole 2 in. very stout, sheathing base 
lin. with inflexed sides and acute tips, fruiting umbels on a short stout 
ommon peduncle, receptacle large globose deeply pitted, pedicels 1~1} in. 
8. perfoliata, Blume Enum. 18 (not of Lour.). 
Matacoa, Maingay, at Ulu Bubong, King’s Collector.—Di1STRIB. Java. 
ranches prickly. — Leaves coriaceous, cost and transverse nervules deeply sunk 
ve, highly raised beneath, Umbels on a common peduncle 1-3 inches long and 
2 thie asa crow-quill, <“ Ovules solitary, berries trigonous at the apex (Maingay 
ben, Resembles S. leucophylla, but the leaves are tomentose and not glaucous 
33. S. Griffithii, 4.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 198; branches obtusely 
angled smooth, leaves 7-10 by 23-43 in. ovate acuminate 5-7-costate from 
* cuneate base coriaceous, petiole lin. articulate in the middle, base 
gege With two rounded auricles, male panicles 7-umbelled buds 
or UPPER Burma, Griffith. 
Pu. ch (young) with a very few minute prickles. Leaves red brown when dry. 
narro 14 In. long. Umbels 2—4-nate ; peduncles 4 in.; pedicels 4 in, ; sepals 3 in., 
~The y obovate-oblong ; petals narrowly linear; stamens shorter than the sepals. 
is in ? mobie species was collected by Griffith in his journey from Assam to Burma ; it 
on the. m only, and the ticket bears no precise habitat beyond that it was gathered 
Patk * 15th of some month, at an elevation of 5000 ft. probably either on the 
i, 2 hills, where he was on March 15th, 1837, on Laim-Planj, or in the Mishmi 
ills, Where he was in Nov, 15th, 1836. The sepals are described as herbaceous 
Coloured with brown. 
8 DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
iii, 99 KE Kunth Enum. v. 261, founded on S. pseudo- China, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
8 rom the Garrow hills, is unrecognizable. It may be S. zeylanica. 
` PECIPIENS, Spreng, Pugill. ii. 91, Undeterminable. l 
being à goa, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 91. De Candolle (Monogr. 207) doubts this 
ely 5 milax, the stem is described as pubescent, the leaves oblong oblique 
v Tel and the spikes elongate compound.—E. Indies. 
Herb. proB®NSIS, A.DC. Monogr. Smilaz, 177 ; S. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 5131 
ew prick) ‘chard. De Candolle describes this as differing from S. Helferi in its 
leaves KD: Sbort sheaths of the petiole, the obtuse base of the more cuspid 
gmas scale of the raceme, larger female flowers and longer less papiliose 
Wallich’s e further remarks that three species have been distribu e Mä 
the type - calophylla, No doubt this is so, but the confusion of certain pe sin 
ate in ti lection of Wallich is so great that except the duplicate specimens 7 vm 
at any satisf, SCH mere fragments) were brought together, it is impossibie to a 
'stactory identification of them. 
` "ies, Kunth Enum., v. 246; A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 178. 8. prolifera, 
