390 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Calyx cupolar. Berry sub-globular, 3-angled, 4 in. iu diam., with very 

 scanty pulp and a single obcordate seed with muricate margins. Wall. 

 Cat. 6989 A ; Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 659. AmpeJoclssus 

 cinnamonea, Planch, iu DC. Mon. Phan. V, 408. 



Penang : Wallich. Siugapore : Ridley. Johore ; King. Perak : 

 Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector, — a common plant. 



5. YlTis POLYSTACHYA, Wall. Cat. No. 6028 in part. Stems glabrous 

 the older with thick corky lenticellate bark. Leaves 5- to 9-foliolato, often 

 pedate ; common petiole 3 in. or more in length : leaflets coriaceous, 

 elliptic-oblong with cuneate bases, the apices cuspidate, the edges dis- 

 tantly serrate ; both surfaces pale when dry, the upper shining, the 

 lower dull and with a few scattered dai-k pustules : main lateral neives 

 7 to 10 pairs, ascending ; length 4 to 32 in., breadth 1-5 to 4 in., petio- 

 lules '5 to "75 in. Inflorescence as in V. thyrsiflora, but much longer, 

 (1 to 2 feet) with only a few flexuose pale hairs. Fruit globose, succu- 

 lent, -75 iu. in diam. Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 662. Ampelo- 

 cissus polystachya, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 411. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1321 ; Maingay, No. 420. 



A species of which 1 have seen no good specimen. It is closely 

 allied to V. thyrsiflora from which the longer inflorescence and general 

 absence of pubescence distinguish it. It is also allied to V. poly- 

 tliyrsa, Miq. 



6. ViTis POLYTHYRSA, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 89. Young 

 stems much warted and (like the petioles, petiolules, tendrils, inflores- 

 cence and under surfaces of the leaves) with pale, rarely rusty, rather 

 scanty, cobwebby pubescence. Leaves 5- or often pedately 7-foliolate, 

 the common petiole 3 to 5 in. long : leaflets coriaceous, elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, usually with rounded (sometimes slightly oblique) 

 bases, the middle one or two often with cuneate bases, the apices of all 

 suddenly and shortly acuminate ; the margins, except at the base, 

 remotely and unequally crenate and with exserted teeth ; upper surfaces 

 glabrous except the pubescent midrib and nerves; length 3 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1"5 to 3 in. ; petiolues "5 to 1 in., the outer the shorter. 

 Inflorescence as in V. thyrsiflora, but with cobwebby, usually palcj 

 pubescence. Flowers as in V. thymiftora. Fruit sub-globular, glabrous, 

 •5 in.^n diam., when ripe green with a red flush. Seeds 4, compressed, 

 concave on one side, ridged on the other. 



Perak : Wray, Scortechini, Ridley, No. 2999, King's Collector, 

 Nos. 2169,6403. Johore : Ridley, No. 4178. Distrib. Sumatra, Kortlials. 



This species comes very near to V. thyrsiflora, Miq., but differs 

 notably in the character of its pubescence. There is in the Calcutta 

 Herbarium an original specimen of V. polystachya, Miq., named by the 



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