402 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Laws. On the third sheet of No. 5991 no locality is noted. On this 

 sheet is glued down a specimen of a different species which I have 

 identified as a variety of the one named V. centsifornits by Teysmann 

 and Binnindyk many years after the issue of Wallicli's plants. The 

 fourth sheet of No. 5991 at Calcutta is occnpied by stems of the latter 

 and a collection of leaves of both the former and latter. The V. glaher- 

 rima of Wall. Cat. is thus a mixed species ; and as such the name would 

 have had to be dropped liad not Wallich published a description of his 

 Penang No. 5991 under that name in Carey's edition of Roxburgh's Flora. 



26. ViTis MOLLissiMA, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 482. 

 Stems rather slendei-, woody, when young softly pubescent, when adult 

 glabrous and shining. Leaves 3-foliolate ; tlie common petiole 2 to 2"5 in. 

 long, tomentose; leaflets petiolulate, the lateral pair obliquely elliptic, the 

 terminal obovate-elliptic, all with shortly acuminate apices, and coarsely 

 but sparsely serrate or sub-entire edges ; the lateral pair with rounded 

 or sub-cordate the terminal one with a cuneate base ; upper surface 

 •sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the midrib and nerves rusty-tomentose ; 

 the lower uniformly and softly tomentose : main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 

 ascending, the lower branching outwards; length 3"25 to 5 in , breadth 

 1-75 to 2*75 in., petiolules of the lateral leaflets "25 10 -4 in., those of 

 the terminal twice as long ; tendrils slender. Cymes half as long as the 

 leaves ; their peduncles 1'5 to 3 in. long, umbellate, spreading, many- 

 branched, many-flowei'ed, 15 to 2*5 in. across, minutely tomentose. 

 Flowers "1 in. long, oblong, 4-merous ; calyx short, truncate ; petals 

 puberulous outside. Fruit oblong, '75 to 1 in. long, Avhen ripe dirty 

 white, with scanty pulp and two large plano-convex seeds. Wall. Cat. 

 6012 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. I3r. Ind. I, 656. Gissus mollissima, Planch, 

 in UC. Mon. Phan. V, 575. 



Penang; Wallich, Curtis No 1435. Malacca; Griffith, No. 1332 ; 

 Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 422. Pahang : Ridley, No. 1334. Perak : 

 King's Collector, Nos. 2744, 4223, 5848 and 10485. 



27. ViTis TKiFOLiA, Linn. Sp. PI. 203. Stems compressed, herba- 

 ceous, or woody near the base only, when young shortly and densely 

 pubescent, becoming sub-glabrous with age. Leaves 3-foliolate, common 

 petiole l"2o to 2*25 in. long ; leaflets shortly petiolulate, ovate, obovate 

 or sub-rhomboid, shortly cuspidate, coarsely serrate or dentate, the 

 bases rounded, more or less pubescent on both surfaces ; main nerves 

 6 or 6 pai IS, slightly curved and ascending; length 15 to 2 5 in., 

 breadth '8 to 125 in., petiolules of the lateral leaflets "1 to "25, of the 

 terminal twice as much ; tendrils short, slender, usually branched. Cymes 

 2 or 3 in. in diam., pubescent, on hmg peduncles ratlier exceeding the 

 leaves, about 3-branched, the umbellules cymose. Flowers 4-mei'ous, 



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