. Mdterials for a Flora of fhe Malayan Peninsula. 399' 



King's Collector, Nos. 2934 ; Wray, Nos. 496, ]929.— Distrib. Java, 

 Sumatra, British India, N'ew Guinea, Cocliin China, Madagascar; 



21, YiTis rcRCATA, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 646. Stems 

 woody, terete, sliglitly swollen at the nodes but not jointed, glabrous 

 as are all the other parts except the infloi-escence. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, rarely ovate-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 edges faintly and remotely sen'ate, the base broad and rounded or 

 narrowed and sub-cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower paler ; 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, ascending, the lower pair branch- 

 ing outwards ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth I'l to 2"5 ia. Cymes in 

 spreading panicles shorter than the leaves, puberulous. Floxoers 4- 

 raerous, pointed, the buds about 1 in. long. Galyx truncate, glabrous. 

 Petals minutely pubescenb externally. Fruit obovate, glabrous, black 

 when ripe, with scanty pulp and a single seed, about '35 or '4 in. long 

 when dry. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.), 424; Griffith, N"o. 1314; Derry, 

 382. Singapore : G. Thomson ; Ridley, No. 4748. Perak : Wray, Nos. 

 12.35,1430 ; King's Collector, Nos. 2716, 6315, 6858.— Distrib. Sumatra : 

 Forbes, No. 2534. 



Var. pubescens, branches of the cyme rufous-pubescent ; petals al- 

 most glabrous extei'nally. 



Province Wellesley : King's Collector, No. 1606. Perak : King's 

 Collector, Nos. 794, 6429, 8402 ; Scortechini, No. 299. 



22. ViTis DISCOLOR, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. Vol. II, 

 (1850), 39. Stems woody at the base only, glabrous, not glaucous, red 

 when young, sub-angular. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, the edges remotely bristle-serrate, the base usually more or 

 less deeply cordate, sometimes rounded or cuneate ; both surfaces glab- 

 rous, the upper in most cases variegated with red and white, the lower 

 purple : main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, the lower pair branching outwards ; 

 length 2"5 to 4 in., breadth '85 to 2 in., petiole *2 to 1*25 in. Cymes 

 umbellate on slender peduncles, few-flowered, sparsely rufous-pubescent. 

 Flmvers '1 in. long, oblong in bud, 4-raerous. Calyx truncate, ^^^tals 

 glabrous. Fruit globular, pyriform, glabrous, red when ripe and about 

 •2 in. in diam., pulp scanty, seed solitary. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 40 ; 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Luu^d. Bat. I, 86 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 1,647. V. iviequalis, WnW. Cat. 6010; W. & A. Prodr. 125. ? F, 

 diversifolia, Wall. Cat. 5996. ? V. costata, Wall. Cat. 6011. Cissns 

 discolor, Blume Bijd. 181 ; Bot. Mag. 80, t. 4763 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, 

 Ft. 2, 606 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 453 ; Planch in. DO. Mon. Phan. V, 496^ 



Perak : ScortPchini. Andamans : King's Collector. — Distbib. Java. 

 Sumatra, Cochin-China, British India. 



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