388 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 



glabrous oi" nearly so ; the lower surface woolly on the nerves and with 

 scattered hairs between, often glabrescent when old ; main nerves 6 or 

 7 pairs, spreading, the lower one or two pairs much curved and branch- 

 ing outwards ; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 45 to 9 in. ; petiole 2o to 6 

 in., with pubescence like the young branches, becoming glabrous with 

 age. Inflorescence thyrsoid, sei'iceous-tomentose, 4 to 6 in. long, on an 

 equally long peduncle bearing a long once or twice dichotomous tendril 

 clothed with wool and brist/les. Flowers 4-merous, on short pedicels. 

 Calyx cupular, glabrous like the separating petals. Berry pedicelled, 

 globular, "3 in. in diam., smooth, with scanty pulp and 3 or 4 com- 

 pressed ])lano-convex shining seeds grooved on the plane surface and 

 slightly rugulose on the convex. Wall. Cat. 5997, 5995 C. and D ; 

 Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Bi". Ind. I, 651 in part ; Kurz For, Flora Bur- 

 ma, I, 276. Ampelocissus harbata, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 372. 

 F. lanata Laws, (not of Roxb.) Fl. Br. Ind. I, 651, in part. 



Andamans : King's Collectors. Uistrib. Burma, Sylhet, Assam, 

 and the base of the Eastern Himalaya. 



Var. irilohata, leaves 3-lobed, pubescence rufous. 

 Perak : King's Collector, No. 1768. Distuib. Siam, Timor. 

 This species is distinguished by the mixture of soft pale hairs and 

 dark subulate bristles with which the young stems petioles and ten- 

 drils are covered. The species is really an excellent one ; but it has 

 been misunderstood owing I believe mainly to a mistake of Wallich 

 its author who issued, under the name V. harbata, specimens which 

 bore the same number (5994) as Ids species V. riigosa, and which really 

 belong to V. rugosa. As a rule the pubescence of V. barbata is pale 

 bi'own, and not rufescent. But in the Perak specimens the pubescence 

 is pale ferrugineous, and the leaves moreover are slightly three-lobed. 

 In other respects the Perak plant agrees Avith specimens fi-om Burma, 

 the Andamans and Sylhet. V. rugosa, to which this species is un- 

 doubtedly allied, appears however to be quite different. It has not the 

 charactex'istic bristles of V. barbata, and its pubescence is always ru- 

 fescent. V. rugosa has really little affinity with V. lanata, Roxb. to 

 which it has been reduced by Lawson and others. 



2. ViTis MACROSTACHYA, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lupd. Bat. I, 94. All 

 pai ts quite glabrous ; branches slender, sub-compressed, angled, not 

 wino'cd. Leaves coriaceous, shining, broadly ovate or oblong, shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, the edges with a few distant short exserted spinous 

 teeth, the base rounded, the reticulatior.s minute and distinct on both 

 surfaces when dry; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spieading ; length 3 to 

 6 in., breadth 2 to 325 in., petioles 1"2 to 18 in. Spikes very narrow, 

 much longer than the leaves, often in lax panicles, pendulous. Flowers 

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