384 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



large number of specimens of Indo-Malayan Gotiania, and I have 

 never seen one of trne 0. microcarpa from anywhere except Southern 

 Peninsular British India or Ceylon. That species is characterised 

 by sessile flowers covered externally by dense woolly white tomentum, 

 and by glabrous usually entire or sub-entire leaves ; while the flowers 

 of G. Javanica, althougli sometimes woolly, are more or less rufescent, 

 and the leaves are never quite glabrous or entire. The species of 

 Gouania run, however, very close together, and I am not sure that 

 it would not be better to reduce this and both G. inicrocarpa and 

 leptostachya to G. tilisefolia Lamk. which dates from 1791. The 

 obscure Malayan species G. denficulata ( Smith in Ree's Cyclop. 

 XVI) ; the West Indian G. pnbescens (Lamk. 111. 845 t. ], ex. Poir. II, 

 819) ; G. dasyantJia, (Miq. Analecta Bot. Ind. Ill, 6) and G. Betinaria, 

 DC. {Retinaria scandens, Gaertn. Fruct. II, p. 187 t. 120 fig. 4) appear 

 to me, from their descriptions, to be probably all reducible also to G. 

 tiliaefolia, Lamk. 



Order XXXIIT. Ampelideae. 



Shrubs, usually climbing by tendrils, sometimes erect (Leea) or 

 small trees; juice copious, water}'. Stems angled, compressed or cylin- 

 drie. Leaves alteinate, usually petioled, simple or digitately or pedaiely 

 3-9-i"oliolate, rarely pinnate or decompound. Flowers in umbellate 

 paniculate or silicate cymes, or spicate. Peduncles often transformed 

 into simple or compound tendrils, or adhering to rocks or trees by viscid 

 pads terminating the ultimate segments, or expaud(:'d into a broad 

 floriferous membrane (Pterisavthes). Flowers regular, hermaplirodite, 

 rarely unisexual. Galyx small, entire or 4-5-t()othed or- lobed. Petals 

 4-5, distinct or cohering, valvate, usually caducous. Stamens 4-5, 

 opposite the petals, inserted at the base of the disc or between its 

 lobes ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers free or connate, 2-celled, 

 introrse. Disc free, or connate Avitli the petals stamens or ovaxy, 

 annular or variously expanded. Ovary 2-6-celled ; style short, slender, 

 conical, or ; stigma minute, or large flat and lobed ; ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell, ascending, anati-opal, raphe ventral. Berry 1-6 celled, cells 

 1-2-seeded. Seed erect, often rugulose, albumen cartilaginous ; embi'yo 

 short, basal, cotyledons ovate. — Distrib. Species about 375, inhabiting 

 the tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 

 Scnndent shrubs, usually bearing tendrils. 



Flowers spicate or cymose. Ovary 3-celled, 



cells 2-ovuled ... ... ... 1. ViTiS. 



Flowers sessile on the dilated membranous 



peduncle ... ... ... 2. Pterlsanthes. 



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