Materials for a Flora of Hip Malayan Peninsula. 105 



large, 2 to 5 inches long, f to 3 inches wide, petiole short 4 inch long 

 twisted and ribbed, tendrils very slender. Umbels an inch across soli- 

 tary or 2 or 3 on a common peduncle 2 inch inch long, bracteate below 

 the middle. Bract lanceolate acuminate. Bads nearly cylindric 2 inch 

 long, pedicels (in flower) slender 4 inch. Male flowers. Sepals and 

 petals nearly obtuse, the latter narrower. Stamens 6, filaments linear 

 rather slender f the length of the petals. Anthers narrow recurved. 

 Berries globose as large as peas usually 1 seeded on pedicels 2 inch 

 long. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 302. S. luzonensis, Presl. Bel. 

 Haenk. I. 131. 



Pahang : Pekan and all up the Pahang river (Bidley 1149) ; Sungei 

 Ujong : Gunong Berembun, (Cantley) Seremban (Bidley) ; Malacca : 

 (Griffith), Aver Panas (Bidley 1749), Bukit Bruang ; Perak: Tarn bun 

 (Ridley 9570), Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10,239), Gopeng (King's Coll. 

 6003), Lankawi (Curtis); Province Wellesley : Krian (Ridley) ; Kelan- 

 tan : Kamposa (Ridley). 



Common in thickets in open country. Native names " Akar 

 Kulona betina," '- Akar Gadung Tikus." Distrib. Pegu and Tenas- 

 serim. 



7. S. zeylanica, L. Sp. PI. 1029. Woody climber 30 to 40 feet 

 long. Stems rather slender more or less 4 angled, with a few thorns. 

 Leaves elliptic, broadly oblong or ovate oblong apex rounded blunt, or 

 cuspidate 2 to 7 inches long 1 to 4 inches wide, ribs 3 to 5 from above 

 the base, petiole 4 to 1 inch long very shortly sheathing. Umbels 

 solitary or 2-3 on a common peduncle, small 2 inch across. Pedicels 

 i inch long. Flowers green. Sepals i-i inch long linear. Petals 

 narrower. Stamens as long. Berries $ inch through. Seeds 2 plano- 

 convex. 



A. De C. Monogr. Smilax 190. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 310. 

 Trimin. Fl. Ceyl. IV. 283. S. indica, Vittm. Summa. V. 422. A. De C. 

 I.e. 187. S. Hohenackeri Kunth. Enum. V. 240. 



Perak, Larut (King's Coll. 7727, 3365). Distrib. India and Java. 



8. S. POLYACANTHA, Wall. Cat. 5127. Kunth. Enum. V. 239. 

 Branches terete as thick as a crowquill closely prickly, prickles short 

 straight. Leaves elliptic lanceolate acuminate at both ends 3 to 5 

 ribbed from the base 4 to 6 inches long by 1^ to 2 inches wide, petiole 

 stout narrowly sheathing below the middle tendrils slender. Umbels 

 solitary or 2 on a very short stout 2-1 inch peduncle, many flowered, 

 receptacle ovoid. Bracteoles minute ovate. Female flowers very small. 

 Ovary with short recurved styles. A. De C. Monogr. Smilax 176. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 311. 



Penang, (Porter Wall. Coll. No. 5127). 



This does not seem to have ever been met with again in the 

 Peninsula, 



