400 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan PeninstUa. 



There is one form of this in which the leaves are very nenvly 

 sessile : and in many specimens the upper leaves have short petioles 

 and rounded bases, while the lower have long petioles and cordate 

 bases. As a rule the leaves of tliis plant are beautifully vai*iegated 

 on the upper surface, but individuals are not uncommon in which the 

 leaves are green. 



23. ViTis KEPENS, W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. Ind. 124. Stems 

 sub-terete when fresh, 4-aMgled when dry, glabi'ous, tlie young shoots 

 glaucous. Leaves pale green, more or less broadly ovate, shortly acu- 

 minate, the margins wavy and with a few distant setose teeth, the base 

 deeply and widely cordate ; main nerves about 4 pairs, the lower 

 branching outwards ; length 25 to 3o in., breadth 1*75 to 325 in., 

 petiole "76 to 1'5 in. Cymes few-flowered in shortly pedunculate 

 compound umbels or thyrses, pubescent toward the upper part. Floivers 

 pointed in bud, 'l in. long, 4-merous. Fruit globose or obovoid, "15 in. 

 in diam. when dry, usually 1-seeded with little pulp, its pedicels re- 

 curved w^hen ripe. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 646; Kurz For* 

 Flora Burma I, 275. V. glauca. Wall, (not of Roxb.) Cat. 5990 (/or 

 the most part). Oksj/s repejis, Larak. Encyc. 1, 31; DC. Prod. 1,628; 

 Miq. 11. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 605 ; Planch, in DO. Mon. Phan. V, 504. 

 ? G. cordata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 407. 



Perak Wray, Nos. 1215, 1858, 2142. Andamans : King's Col- 

 lector. — DiSTRiB. British India, Java. 



As was pointed out by Wallich, this differs from F. glaberrtina, 

 WalL by its more deeply cordate leaves and smaller flowers. Closely 

 allied to this must be the species named Gissus pentagona by Roxburgh 

 (Fl. Ind. I. 408) ; but Roxbui-gli's description is too brief to identify a 

 species by in such a difficult genus as Vitis ; and he has unfortunately 

 left no figure of V. pentagona at Calcutta. 



24. ViTis CERASiFORMis, Tcysm. and Binn. in Nat. Tijdsch. N'ed. 

 Ind. XXIX, 251, var. Wallichii, King. Branches with pale shining 

 bark, obtusely 4-angled, not winged. Leaves oblong to ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded sub- truncate or slightly sub-cordate at the base, the apex 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate ; the edges remotely crenate-serrate, the 

 teeth setose ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, spreading : length 2 to 4 

 in., breadth 1*2 to 2'4 in., petiole '5 to '75 in. Cymes few-flowered, lax, 

 under "5 in. in diam., in pedicelled umbels from a common peduncle '5 to 

 1 in. long, sometimes in small thyrses. Flowers large for the genus, 4-mer- 

 ous ; their buds '2 in. long, pointed. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate ; petals 

 coriaceous. Fruit when ripe as large as a cherry and similarly coloured. 

 Vitis glaherrima, Wall. 5991 (in part) ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 646, {in part). Cissus cerasifurmis, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phau. V, 621. 



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