Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 391 



autlior himself, and there is no doubt that the Perak plant is quite the 

 same. I believe also that the Boi-nean species V. Mottleyi described 

 by Sir Joseph Hooker in 1862 (Linn. Trans. XXIII, 165) is also the 

 same : and, if this is so. Sir Joseph's name being the earlier must stand. 

 F. nitida, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 662 should also, I believe, be 

 reduced here. 



7. ViTis THYRSlFLOBA, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 88 (excl. 

 var. B.) Young stems, petioles, petiolules, tendrils and inflorescence 

 densely rusty-tomentose. Leaves 5- to 7-foliolate, the common petiole 

 3 to 6 in. long ; leaflets coriaceous, obovate-oblong or oblong, with 

 cuneate bases, the outer two oblique, the apices of all shortly and 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate ; the edges in the upper half with hard 

 cylindric exserfced teeth, in the lower half entire : upper sui-face glab- 

 rous except tlie tomentose midrib and nerves; the lower rusty-pubescent; 

 main nerves 5 tc 8 pairs, ascending, prominent beneath and ending in 

 the bristle teeth on the edge, transverse veins distinct ; length 375 to 7 

 in., breadth 175 to 275 in. ; petiolules "5 to 1 in., those of the middle 

 leaflets longest. Inflorescence a slender pendulous raceme of short 

 horizontal spikes borne on a peduncle shorter than itself and proceedino- 

 from a leaf-opposed tendril. Floivers sessile, oblong, 4-merous, glab- 

 rous. Calyx truncate, petals expanding. Fruit obovoid-oblong, slightly 

 angled, glabrous, with little pulp, about '75 in. long ; seeds 4. Gissus 

 thyrsiflora, Blume Bijd. 187 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 453 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 2, 604. Ampelocisstis thyrsiflora, Planch, in Mon. Phan. 

 V, 409 (excl. syn. Vitis cinvamonea, Wall, and V. elegans, Kurz). 



Perak : Scortechini, Nos. 121, 266; Wray, Wos. 1925, 1937, 2551 ; 

 King's Collector, Nos. 509, 2033, 6366. Selangor : Ridley, No. 319. 



8. ViTiS COMPOSITIFOLIA, Laws. in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 659. 

 Young stems and petioles covered with soft felted semi-deciduoiis 

 rufous or rusty tomentum. Leaves quinate, the common petiole 6 to 15 

 in. long; leaflets oblanceolate or obovate-elliptic, the two outer often 

 oblique, the apices of all abruptly and shortly cuspidate, the edo-es 

 with remote exserted bristle-teeth in their upper half, entire in the 

 lower ; the bases of the inner leaflets cuneate, those of the outer two 

 unequal, the outer side rounded ; upper surface finely reticulate, 

 glabrous, but with a few scattered hairs on the nerves, the midrib 

 pubescent ; lower surface uniformly and densely rufous-tomentose : main 

 nerves 8 to 10 pairs spreading, curved; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 275 

 to 4 in., petiolules '5 to "75 in. Inflorescence a slender pendulous raceme 

 of short sub-horizontal spikes borne on a long peduncle and proceeding 

 from a leaf-opposed tendril longer than the leaves, rufous-tomentose 

 like the stems -.flowers sub-globular, sessile, immex'scd in the tomentum of 



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