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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



short or absent. Stigmas 3 recurved. Ovary trigonous 3 celled, 

 ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. Fruit a berry with one, two or three seeds 

 hemispheric or globose. Albumen horny. Embryo small. 



Species about 200, all temperate and tropical regions. 



Small erect shrub, anthers sessile 

 Climbers. 



Anthers nearly sessile 

 Filaments long or moderately so. 



Stems rather slender, leaves small or 

 moderate size. 

 Branches unarmed. 



Fruit small. Leaves lanceolate acute 



Fruit small. Leaves elliptic 



Fruit small. Fruit as large as a cherry . . . 

 Branches thorny. 



Eibs of leaf free to the base. 



Umbels an inch across 



Umbels half an inch across 



Ribs connate above the base. Stem close- 

 ly thorny 



Stems stout leaves large ovate ; petiole 

 with a large sheath. 

 Leaves white on the back. 



Stems hispid 



Stems thorny, not hispid ... 

 Leaves not white on the back. 



Branches roughly scabrid ... 



Branches prickly. 



Leaves perfectly glabrous 

 Leavos tomentose on the back... 



1. S. calophylla. 



2. S. myosotiflora. 



3. S. laevis. 



4. S. extensa. 



5. S. megacarpa. 



6. S. Helferi. 



7. S. zeylctnica. 



S. .S. pohjacantlia. 



9. S. bar bat a. 



10. S. leucophylla. 



11. S. aspericaulis. 



12. S. Kingii. 



13. S. Blumei. 



1. S. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 5131, A. De C. Monogr. Smilax 60. 

 A slender erect shrub about 2 feet tall, with a wiry slender unarmed 

 stem. Leaves 4 to G inches long $ to 1^ inch wide lanceolate acuminate 

 3 nerved, base acute dark green above glaucous beneath, petiole i to j 

 inch long. Tubels very small sessile or nearly so. Male flowers glob- 

 ose yellow. Sepals hooded concave oblong obovate obscurely keeled. 

 Petals sinalier ovate, flat. Anthers sessile on a disc, oblong ovoid 

 white. Berry h inch through globose red. Seed globose big as a pea, 

 red brown. Hook. lil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 303. 



Singapore: Garden Jungle, Bukit Timah, etc., (Ridley); Johor : 

 Tanjong Bunga ; Johor Bahru (Ridley); Malacca: Mount Ophir 



