396 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Penang : Curtis, No. 685, King. Singapore : Ridley, No. 5711. 

 Perak : Scortecliini, No. 102 ; Wray, No. 1889. Andamans : Kurz, King's, 

 Collectors. Distrib. Java, Sumatra, British India. 



Very good cliaiacters to distinguish this from its allies are that 

 the main nerves of the leaves are in dried specimeus winged on the 

 lower surface, and that the fruit is wliite when ripe. 



16. ViTis KuNSTLEBi, King n. sp. ' Whole plant except the in- 

 florescence glabrous. Stems slender, the younger not lenticellate and 

 the older sparsely so. Leaves pedately 5-foliolate, common petiole 2 

 to 3 in. long, slender ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, narrowed to the base, the outer two rounded at the base on 

 the outer side ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, prominent and slightly pale 

 on tlie lower surface ; midrib stout, pale and prominent beneath : length 

 2'6 to 4"5 in., breadth 1*1 in. to 1*75 in. ; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 

 •25 in., of the others about 1 in. Cymes axillary, many-flowered, branch- 

 ing, condensed, about 1"5 in. aci'oss, on peduncles shorter than them- 

 selves, puberulous. Flowers -1 in. long, oblong in bud, 4-merous; the 

 calyx flat, obscurely toothed, petals puberulous outside ; stigma broad, 

 4-lobed. Fruit globular, glabrous, "35 in. in diam., without pulp : seeds 

 2, obovoid, slightly compressed, transversely rugulose, with a short beak 

 and a vertical groove on each side, that in front being the deepest and 

 having two narrow ridges on it, '25 in. long. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 2790, 8027 : Scortechini. Pahang : 

 Ridley, No. 2835. 



A species allied to V. andamanica, King ; also closely allied to F. 

 pycnantha, Coll. and Hemsl., from which however it differs in its larger 

 size and very different seeds ; the seed of that species being longer 

 (•35 in. long), more compressed, less prominently grooved, and less 

 rugulose. 



17. YiTis SEMi-cORDATA, Wall. vav. Scortechinii. Whole plant 

 glabrous ; stems dark-coloured when dry, lenticellate, without tendrils, 

 Leaves 3-foliolate ; common petiole 3'5 to 5 in. long: leaflets coriaceous, 

 the niiddle obovate rarely ovate, the two outer elliptic, oblique ; the 

 apices of all shortly cuspidate; the edges coarsely crenate-serrate 

 except in the lower third, the middle leaflet cuneate at the base, the 

 other two more or less rounded outside and oblique inside at the base ; 

 both surfaces minutely reticulate, the lower paler : main nerves 6 or 7 

 pairs, rather prominent beneath, arching upwards : length 4 to 5 in., 

 breadth 2'5 to 3*5 in. ; petiolules of the latei^al leaflets "1 to "2 in., that 

 of the middle one twice as much. Cymes leaf-opposed, umbellately 

 panicled, glabrous, 2 to 2*5 in. in diam. (much wider in fruit), on pedun- 

 cles 15 to 2 iu. long. Flowers dioecious, numerous ; buds oblong, '15 



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