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Singapore: Ridley, Nos. ]924, 6380, King. Perak : Scortechinij 

 No. 262; Wray, No. 2858: King's Collector, Nos. 6212, 10470.— Dis- 

 TRIB. Java, Forbes 480 ; Sunaatra, Forbes, Nos. 2583, 2861a. 



The various specimens to which I have given the varietal name 

 Wallichii vary somewhat as to the form of their leaves, some having 

 them oblong with nearly truncate bases, while others have them^ broadly 

 ovate with slightly cordate bases. In all, however, the leaves al*e 

 broader than those in the typical form found in Java and originally 

 described by Teysmann and Biiinindyk, the bases of which are moreover 

 cuneate. The large flowers and fruit, both of the typical form and of 

 the variety Wallicltii, however, at once distinguish this from the hastate- 

 or sagittate-leaved species which Wallich confused with it under one 

 common name as V. glaherrinia. 



25. YiTis GLABERRiMA, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 476 ; 

 Cat. 599, f m par^). A weak climber, with herbaceous sub-corapi-essed 

 4-angled sliglitly winged glaucous stems, the bark dark when dry. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, with broadly sagittate-cordate sub-hastate or 

 sub-truncate bases, always attenuated upwards to the acute apex, the 

 edges minutely and I'emotely bi'istle-serrate-crenulate ; main nerves 4 or 

 5 pairs, faint, spreading, the lower branching outward ; length 2 to 

 4 in., breadth 12 to 175 in. ; petiole '6 to "8 or even 1*5 in. in the 

 lower leaves. Cymes small, '3 to "6 in. in diam., umbellate on short 

 pedicels from the apex of a common peduncle '4 to "8 in. long. Floivers 

 4-merous. Berry obovoid, 2-seeded, "15 in. in diam. when dry. W. 

 and A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. J 25 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 646 

 (in part). Vitis hastata, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 85. Vitis sagit- 

 tifolia. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 645. Cissus glaherrima, 

 Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 498. Cissus hastata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 517. Vitis diffusa, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 646. 



Singapore : Anderson, No. 78 ; HuUett, No. 230, King. Malacca ; 

 King. Perak : Scortechini, Wray. Penang ; Wallich, King. Kedah ; 

 Curtis No. 2606. Province Wellesley ; King. Andamans and Nicobars ; 

 King's Collectors. Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka. 



Under the name V. glaherrima and the number 5991, Wallich 

 distributed two species of Vitis gathered partly in Penang and partly 

 in Singapore. These two gatherings are not, as is usual with Wallich 

 in similar cases, distinguished by letters. On two of the four sheets of 

 No. 5991 which are now present in the Calcutta Herbarium, " Penang " 

 is given as the locality ; and these agree with the description of the 

 species Vitis glaherrima from Penang which was published by Wallich in 

 Carey's edition of Roxburgh's Flora Indica. This Penang plant agrees 

 absolutely with type specimens of Vitis hastata, Miq. and V. sagittifolia, 



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