Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



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Leaves simple, flowers 4-meroQS. 



Flowers in umbellate cymes, not borne on 

 tendrils. 



Stems thick, succulent, 4-winge(i 

 Stems herbaceous or woody. 

 Leaves pubescent underneath. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, with cinereous 

 pubescence ... 



Leaves ovate-rotund, with rusty or 

 rufescent pubescence 

 Leaves everywhere glabrous. 



Flowers not more than "1 in. long. 

 Leaves coriaceous, their bases round- 

 ed or cuneate, not cordate ; fruit 

 obovoid, black 



Leaves membranous, coloured 

 (usually) on the upper surface, 

 ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, their 

 bases usually cordate, rarely cuneate 

 or rounded ; fruit red ... 

 Leaves membranous, broadly ovate, 

 green, their bases deeply and widely 

 cordate ; fruit globose or obovoid ... 

 Flowers more than '1 in. long ; leaves 

 rounded, sub-truncate or slightly sub- 

 cordate at the base ; fruit nearly I in. 

 in diam. 



Flowers "2 in. or more in length ; leaves 

 sagittate, sub-hastate or sub-truncate 

 at the base ; fruit '15 in. in diam. 

 Flowers in much elongated simple, or some- 

 times branching, spikes 

 Flowers in tendril-bearing thyrses 

 Flowers in elongated racemes of sub-hori- 

 zontal spikes proceeding from tendrils. 



Leaves sparsely strigose and slightly 



pubescent, not rufesceut 



The under surface of leaves and the 



young branches and tendrils covered 



with dense adherent cianamoneous to- 



m,eutum 



19. V. quadrangularis. 



10. 



20. 



26. 

 I. 



V. Scortechinii. 

 V. adnata. 



21. V. ftircata. 



22. V. discolor. 



23. V. repens. 



24. V. cerasiformis. 



25. V. glaberrima. 



V. macrostachya 

 V. barbata. 



3. V. gracilis. 



4i. V. ci: 



cmnamonea. 



6yi 



