Materials foi' a Flora of the Malayan Penmsula, 395 



Flowers rather more than "I in. long, caljx truncate or obscurely 

 4-toothed. Petals 4, white. Fruit sub-gh^buhir, smootli, pulpy ; seeds 

 3 or 4, compi'essed, grooved in front. Vitis tuberculata, Lawsou (not of 

 Wall.) in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 656. Cissiis tubercidata, Bl. Bijdr. 

 189 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 604', sub Tetrastigma lanceolariuni 

 Plancli. DC. Mon. Phan. V, 424. 



Penang: Cuitis, Nos. J580. Perak : Scortechini, No. 269. Wray, 

 No. 1926, 2017, 2247. King's Collector, Nos. 1852, 3047, 3081, 6287, 

 6134. 



This is no doubt closely allied to Vitis lanceolaria, Wall, to which 

 Planchon reduces ifc. But the smaller and globular fruits, smaller 

 leaves with fewer nerves, ai\d the general absence of tendrils distingnish 

 it well. This is the plant which Blume called Cisstts tnhercahitn • but 

 it is not the Vitis tuberculnta of Wjillich which becomes Vitis riimicisper- 

 Ttifi, Lawson. For tliis species Mr. Lawson keeps Blume's specific name, 

 but he changes ifs generic name to Vitis — a course which I regret 

 to be unable to follow, first because there is an earlier Gissus tuber- 

 culata than Blume's, (viz., that of Jacquiti dating from the years 1 797 to 

 1S04 during which thnt author's Tlortus Schoeiibrunnensis was published, 

 and which is therefore the plant to which any author who reduces 

 Cissus to Vitis ought to give tbe name V. tnberculnta) ; second, because 

 Blume did not call his plant Vitis tubfvculata but Gissus tuberculata. 



15. Vitis lanceolaria, Wall. Cat. 6013 {most of the letters). 

 Wliole plant except the inflorescence glabi'ous : stems sometimes boldly 

 tuberculate. Leaves usually 3-foli()late, sometimes pedately 5-foliolate ; 

 common petiole 2 to 5 inches long; leaflets softly coriaceous, oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end, sometimes obovate-oblong, 

 ' always shortly caurlate-acuminnte and the edges with remote shallow 

 teeth ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly winged on tlie 

 lower surface : length 4*5 to 6 in., breadth 1'75 to 2 75 in., petiolules 

 •4 to "75 in. Cymes axillary, puberulous, spreading, about 1'5 in. across, 

 on peduncles shorter than themselves. Tendrils rather short, forked. 

 Floivers 4-merous, tlie stigma 4-lobed. Fruit globose-ovoid, as large as a 

 cherry, white when ripe, pulpy, J- or 2-seeded ; the seeds compressed, 

 concave on one surface, rugulose. W. and A. Prod. 128; Wight Ic, 177; 

 Brand. For. Flora 101 ; Laws, in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 660 (in 

 part) ; Knrz For. Flora Burma, I, 272 : Trimen Flora Ceylon, I. 

 2j6. Tetrastigma lanceolarium, Plancli. in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 424. 

 Vitis muricata,Wii]\. Cat. 6015; W. and A. Prod. 128 Wight Ic. 740, 

 Gissus lanceolaria, Roxh. Fl. Ind. I, 412: DC. Prod. I, 632; Gjaham 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. .33; Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 63, Cissus muricata 

 var. minor. Thwaites Euum. 63» 



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