392 Materials far a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



the rachis but themselves perfectly pjlabrous, 4merous : calyx truncate, 

 petals expanding. Fridt oblong, 3-4-angIed, glabrous, '5 to "75 in. long ; 

 when ripe red, with scanty pulp and 3 or 4 plano-convex seeds, the 

 convex surface angular. V. cinnamonea, var. compositifolia, Wall. Cat. 

 6989 B. Ampelopsis compositifolia, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 4J2. 



Penang : Wallich. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 4]8 ; 

 Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 826 and 5230; Scorteehini. 



9. ViTis ELEGANS, Kuvz in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. XXVIII, 166. 

 Youno" stems, petioles, tendrils and inflorescence covered with dense 

 reddish-brown tonrientum. Leaves 3-foliolate, often pedately or digi- 

 tately 5-foliolate, the common petiole 3 or 4 in. long ; leaflets coriaceous, 

 trapczoid-oblong or broadly oblong-lanceolate, much narrowed to the 

 base, the outer two often veiy unequal-sided with broad &ub-tiuncate 

 or sub-coi'date bases, the apices of all acute or sub-acute, and the 

 edfes with remote shallow crenations and exserted bristle-teeth; upper 

 surface covered with minute conical rugae each ending in a short white 

 hair, the midrib aud nerves rust3'-tomeutose : lower surface uniformly 

 covered with dense short rusty tomentum ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 the outer lower nerve in the lower pair of leaflets branching outwards ; 

 length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1-75 to 3 in.; petiolules '5 in., subequal. In- 

 florescenc6 as in V. compositifolia, but rather shorter and stouter ; the 

 flower buds oblong. Fruit unknown. Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1870 pt. 2, 74 ; Laws, iu Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 659. 



Giugapore : Walkei-, Ridley, Hullett and others. Johore : Hullett and 

 King. Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distiib.), No. 417. Distrib. — Bangka. 



This resembles V. compositifolia Laws., but has more coriaceous 

 leaves, rugulose-pubescent on the upper surface, and with shorter petioles. 

 The inflorescence of this is also shorter and stouter, and the flower-buds 

 are oblong rather than globular. The tomentum of this is shorter and 

 less cobwebby and is of a darker colour. Planchon identifies this with 

 Cissus thyrsifiora Bl. and it forms part of hi.s Ampelocissiis thyrsiflora, 

 (DC. Mon. Phan. V, 409) — a reduction which he could hardly have pro- 

 posed had he seen specimens of C. elegans. For although the two have 

 many points of resemblance, their leaves are very different, those of 

 G. elegans having their upper surfaces minutely rugulose-papillate, 

 each papilla ending in a short white hair; while in G. thyrsiflora, 

 Blume the upper surface is smooth and glabrous except the nerves. 



JO. ViTis ScoBTECHiNi, King n. sp. Branches woody, terete, 

 glabrous, scaberulons, not jointed. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 

 sometimes oblique and rarely broad at the base and with two unequal 

 lobes about tlie middle, the apex shortly acuminate, the base minutely 

 cordate ; the edges sub-entire, waved and slightly recurved, sometimes 

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