406 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsida. 



Leaves compound, digitate. 



Iiifioresceiice of corymbose w umbellate 

 Ipaf-opposed oi- axillary cymes. 

 Leaves trifoliolate. 



Flowers usually 5-merous, tendrils absent 17. V. semicordatn. 

 Flowers 4-merous, tendrils usually pre- 

 sent. 



Leaflets more or less softly tomentose 26. V. mollissima. 



Leaflets slightly pubescent on both 



surfnces ... ... ... 27. F. trifolia. 



Leaflets glabrous on the upper, glau- 

 cous on the lower, surface ... 11. V . peduncularis. 

 Leaflets glabrous on both surfaces, not 

 glaucous. 



Flowers only "05 in. long; seeds 

 convex on one surface, 3-ridged. on 

 the other ... ... ... ]2. V. andamanica. 



Flowers '1 in. long. 



Fruit dry, seeds 3-sid.ed, excavated 



on one side ... ... 13. F. Wrayi. 



Fruit pulpy; seeds compressed, 



grooved in front ... ... 14. F. Laiosoni. 



Leaves 3- to 5-foliolate ; flowers 4-merous. 

 Leaflets quite glabrous. 



Fruit pnlpy ; seeds compressed, con- 

 cave on one surface, convex and 

 rugulose on the other ... ... 15. F. lanceolaria. 



Fruit dry ; seeds obovoid, slightly 

 compressed, slioi'tly beaked, not 

 rugulose, vertically grooved on both 

 surfaces ... ... ... ~1Q. V. Kunstlcri. 



Leaflets glabrous or pubescent ; seeds 

 triansfular with one side convex and 

 very rugose, the other two sides flat 

 and one of them with a membrane- 

 closed pit ... ... ... 28. V. japontca. 



Leaves pedately 7- to 9-folioIate ; seeds 

 globular w^itli one side plane and with a 

 membrane-closed pit ... ... 29. F. novemfolia. 



Inflorescence a slender pendulous much 

 elongate raceme of short horizontal spikes 

 borne on a leaf-opposed tendril. 



Both surfaces of leaflets glabrous ... 5. V. poli/stachya. 

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