Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula,. 107 



many flowered, solitary or 2 or 3 on a common peduncle i inch 

 long. Buds clavate i inch long. Male flowers, sepals linear oblong £ 

 inch long, petals very narrow. Stamens as long as the sepals. Berries 

 nearly i an inch through. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 306. S. Box- 

 biirghiana, Wall. Cat. 5115 (in part). S. odoratissima Bl. 



Perak : Larut Hills (King's Coll. 2924) ; Selangor : Ginting Bidai 

 (Ridley). Dktrib. India, Andaman Islands. 



In hill woods about 2,000 feet alt. rare. 



12. S. KiNGll, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 307. Stem 20 to 40 

 feet long, branches very stout granulate 4 angled, with scattered conic 

 thorns. Leaves very large coriaceous perfectly smooth, ovate acumi- 

 nate, orbicular ovate or elliptic 5 to 12 inches long, 6 inches or less wide, 

 ribs 3 free to base, nervules obscure, petiole stout twisted 2-3 inches 

 long, sheath very broad cymbiform, tendrils very stout. Umbels 1 to 

 3 on a very short common peduncle partial peduncles 1 to 3 inches 

 long, pedicels 1^ to 2 inches long. Female flowers pink, sepals broad- 

 ly oblong lanceolate obtuse; petals very narrow. Staminodes 3. 

 Ovary oblong. Style i as long, stigma much longer than the style. 

 Berry 1 inch through. 



Perak, Larut Hills at 300 to 500 feet (King's Collector 4171, 3914). 

 Endemic. 



13. S. Blumei, A. De C. Monogr. Smilax 202. Stout climber 

 20 to 25 feet long, stems terete prickly, Leaves large coriaceous 

 ovate or orbicular ovate acute or obtuse 7 ribbed, ribs and reticulating 

 nerves elevated on the back and deeply sunk on the upper face, back 

 of leaves tomentose 8 to 24 inches long, petiole 2 inches long stout, 

 sheathing portion 1 inch sides inflexed tips acute. Umbels on a short 

 stout common peduncle 1-3 inches long, receptacle in fruit large globose, 

 pedicels 1 to li inch long. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 313. Smilax 

 perfoliata, Blume Enum. 18 (not Loureiro). 



Malacca: (Maingay); Perak : Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10,598), 

 Larut Hills (Ridley) common at an altitude of 2000 feet. Distrib. 

 Java. 



Doubtful Species. 



S. sp. Branches stiff woody with small scattered thorns. Leaves 

 oblong lanceolate cuspidate coriaceous 4 to 5 inches long 1^ to 2 inches 

 long, ribs 3 deeply impressed on the upper surface, petiole stout $ an 

 inch long abruptly bent in the middle, sheath small not enlarged. 

 Peduncle unbranched, stout over half an inch long. Fruit globose as 

 large as a pea (when dry) pedicels ^ an inch long. Flowers not seen. 



Selangor, Bukit Hitam (Kelsall, Herb. Bot. Gard. Sing. 1973). 

 Dr. Prain says matches S. extensa Wall. Cat. 5126, but it does not at 

 all fit the description in A. De C. Monogr. Smilax 179. 



