of Vitis, Dr. Stapf’s explanation is no doubt the correct 
one. 
Pterisanthes polita is a native of the Malayan Peninsula 
from Moulmein, in Burma, where it was found by Lobb, 
to Singapore; and also of Sumatra and Borneo. The 
Royal Gardens, Kew, received plants of it from those of 
Singapore in 1894, which flowered in a stove in November, 
1896. 
Descr.—A tall, slender climber, glabrous, except in the 
sparsely woolly surface of the receptacle. Leaves simple, 
four to six inches long, broadly ovate, or ovate-cordate, 
acuminate, shortly, distantly toothed, chartaceous, bright-— 
green and shining above, pale beneath; nerves six to 
eight pairs, arching ; basal sinus closed ; petiole one to two 
_ inches long. Receptacle occupying the middle of one 
branch of a bifid tendril, four to five inches long, by one 
to one and a half broad, dark red-brown, very unequal- 
sided at both ends, tip with a capillary tail; rarely the 
receptacle is lobed or interrupted on one side; midrib 
stout; peduncle (naked portion of cirrhus) three to four 
inches long. Flowers about an eighth of an inch in diam., 
some bisexual, sessile, scattered over and sunk in both 
surfaces of the receptacle; others female or neuter, mar- 
ginal, on stout pedicels about half an inch long. Calyz 
tube very short, limb obscurely four-lobed. Petals four, 
rounded. Disk broad, fleshy. Stamens 4. Style very 
short, conical. Berry pisiform—J.D.H 
Fig. 1, Portion of receptacle with sessile and pedicelled flowers; 2, pedicelled — 
female flower; 3, vertical section of the same, showing the bracts, calyx, and 
petals; 4, larger marginal female Hower with the calyx and petals removed; 
5, vertical section of the same; 6 and 7, stamens from sessile flowers; 8, ver- 
tical section of ovary of sessile flower :—AJ/ enlarged. 
