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in, in length, pentaracrous ; the calyx flat, obscurely toothed ; petals 

 pale outside, glabrous, oblong. Bipe fruit ovoid, glabrous, smooth, 

 black, '25 in. long ; seeds 2 or 3, if 2 plano-convex, if 3 triangular- 

 convex. 



Perak : Scortechini, 313, 317.— DiSTRiB. Java ; Forbes, Nos. 823,983. 



Scortechini's specimens are in fruit only, and Forbes's are in flower 

 and have no fruits. But ttie two sets are so absolutely identical in 

 otlier respects, that I have ventured (quite contrary to my usual 

 practice) to describe the flowers from one set and fruit from another 

 set of specimens. The species of which this is a variety was first 

 issued by "Wallich as No. 6020 of his catalogue, and was described by 

 him in his own and Cai'ey's edition of Roxburgh's Flora Indica I, 481. 

 (1824). In his Illustrations of Himalayan Botany (1839), Royle pub- 

 lished what is really only a glabrous form of it under the name Oissus 

 liimalayana, which Sir D. Brandis in his Foi'est Flora of the North- 

 West Provinces of India reproduces as Vitis IHmalayana. Lawson in 

 Hooker's Flora of British India accepts Brandis's name as that of the 

 species, and uses Wallich's trivial name semi-cordnta to designate, as a 

 variety, the form which Wallich published as a species. This state of 

 matters I therefore propose to amend as follows : — 



Vitis serai-cordata, Wall. Cat. 6020; in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 

 and Wall. I, 481. V. Himalayana, Brandis, var. semi-cordata, Laws, in 

 Honk. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. T, 656. Parthenocissus semi-cordata, Planch, in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. V, 451. 



Var. 1 linylei. Vitis Himalayana, Brandis For. Flora 100 ; Laws. 

 I. c. 655. Ampelopsis Him^alayana, Royle 111. Him. Bot. 149. A. neil- 

 gheirensis, Nightie. 965. Cissus Himalayana, W^aA^. Rep. I, 441. All 

 parts glabrous, leaves membranous ; flowers less than '15 in. long. 



Var. 2., Scortechinii. All parts glabrous ; leaves obscurely ser- 

 rate-crenate, sometimes almost entire, coriaceous ; flowers '15 in. long. 



18. Vitis cantoniensis. Seem. Bot. Herald 370. Whole jilant 

 glabrous. Stem slender, cylindi-ic. Leaves unequally pinnate, or the 

 lower pair of pinnae ternately compound ; common petiole from 5 to 

 1 in. long ; leaflets small, membranous, glaucous beneath, lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, remotely serrate in the upper two-thirds, 

 entire and cuneate in the lower third ; main nerves 3 or 4 pairs, faint ; 

 length "75 to 1'5 in., rarely 2 in. ; breadth "5 to '75 in., petiolules '1 to 

 •2 in. Cymes umbellately-corymbose, dichotomous, about '75 in. across, 

 their peduncles about J '5 to 2 in. long. Flowers sub-globular, "1 in. long, 

 5-merous. Calyx cupular, obscurely toothed. Petals thick, oblong 

 fiwc fleshy, 5-lobed. Fruit obovoid, glabrous, '25 in. long, without pulp. 

 Seeds 3 or 4, the back roundeil, tlje face wedge-shaped. Laws, in Hook. 



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