404 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula- ' "" 



bristle teeth near the apex, the base naiTOwed ; lower surface minutely 

 reticulate ; length 2 to 3'5 in. breadth 85 to 1'35 in. ; petiolules of the 

 middle leaflets somotimos as much as 3 in. long, those of the lateral 

 leaflets from '28 to 1*25 in. ; tendrils long, slender, forked. Cymes 

 axillary, puberulous, much-branched, spreading, 3 to 6 in. across, on 

 peduncles as long as the leaves. Flotvers broadly ovoid in bud, "IS in. 

 long, 4-merous ; the calyx cupalar, truncate ; the petals broad, minutely 

 puberulous externally; disc large, cupular, thin. Fruit ovoid or sub- 

 globular, v?ith two deep grooves, glabrous, '3 in. in diam,, without pulp ; 

 seeds 2, globular, truncate and with a deep pit on one side, the opening 



occluded by a membrane. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 662. 



Cissus novemfoUa, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 559. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 1728 ; King's Collector, Nos. 1245, 2736. 

 Andamans : King's Collectors. 



The plant above described agrees with Wallich's imperfect speci- 

 mens from Singapore. It is readily recognised by the great inequality 

 of the petiolules of its leaflets. The middle leaflet is usually quite free 



from the others and has a much longer petiolule than they have. 



Species imperfectly known. 



ViTis COBIACEA, DO. Prod. I, 632. A species from Timor too briefly 

 described by De Candolle for accurate identification. There are in 

 the Calcutta Herbarium specimens from the Andamans (King's Col- 

 lectors, No. 3000) and from Sumatra (Forbes, No. 1344), both of 

 which agree with a specimen in the Kew Herbarium named V. coria- 

 cea, DO. The Sumatra speciiuens have pedately 5- to 7-foliolate leaves } 

 tlie leaflets ai'e coriaceous, glabrous, obliquely oblong or obovate-oblong, 

 bluntly cuspidate, remotely serratcrcrenate, with rounded or tapering 

 bases ; they are 2*5 to 4. in. long and 1*35 to 1*75 in broad ; the cymes 

 are widely branching, nearly 3 in. across when in fruit, and on short war- 

 ted peduncles 1 in. long : the fruit is ovoid-globose, '2 in. in diam., with 

 a thick pericarp and no pulp. The seeds are lai^e, solitary, ovoid, 

 smooth, with shallow transverse markings and a very shallow vertical 

 groove down each face. In the Andaman specimens the leaflets are 

 larger and less coriaceous, the cymes are larger (6 in. wide), and the 

 fruit and seeds are slightly longer. But the appeai-ance and structure 

 of the seeds is exactly the same in both ; and I believe both may be 

 V. coriacea, DC. 



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