52* Materials for a Flm:a of the Malayan Peninsula. 



shining, the lower dull when dry ; midrib prominent on the lower surface 

 as also the 4 oblique, basal, and 2-3 pairs of sub-horizontal main nerves ; 

 length 2-5-7 in., breadth 1-8-5 in ; petiolules unequal, *2-2 in., swollen 

 near the apex. Panicle terminal, stellately puberulous, shorter than the 

 leaves while in flower, longer in fruit, bearing many very narrow 

 racemoid branches each with an acuminate lanceolate bract 1 in. long 

 at its base ; branchlets very short, from '15 in. when in flower to "5 in. 

 when in fruit, stellately puberulous, each bearing an umbel of 12-20; 

 flowers ; buds depressed, globular, glabrous, '05 in. in diam. ; their pedicels; 

 •2 in. long, slender. Fruit rather broadly ovoid, bluntly 5-ridged, 5- 

 celled, glabrous, '15 in. long. Clarke in Flor. Br. Ind. II, 730. Paratropia> 

 suhidata, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 22. 



Malacca; Griffith (Kew Distrib.) 2690; Mai n gay ; 681, (Kew 

 Distrib.) Berry. Pahang; Ridley 1632, 5818. Perak ; Scortechini ; 

 Wray 872, 3090, 3639; King's Collector 773, 1102, 2343. Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



This closely resembles H. venulosum, Seem., and is not always readily distin- 

 guishable from that species. The best marks of this appear to me to be the promi- 

 nence of the basal nerves and the fewness of the other main nerves (only 2 or 3 

 pairs) ; and the longer narrower panicles which, up to the pedicels of the 

 flowers, are covered with minute stellate hairs. The raajoi'ity of the specimens of 

 H. venulosum, Seem, have glabrous panicles, but those of var. macrophylla are 

 hairy, and the leaves have many more lateral nerves. 



11. HEFrAPLEURUM VENULOSUM, Seem. Rev. Hed. 44. Scandent; 

 young branches rather slender, glabrous. Leaves digitate ; common 

 petiole slender, terete, glabrous, 4-6 in. long ; leaflets thinly coriaceous, 

 oblanceolate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, narrowed' 

 to the base, the edges entire; both surfaces shining, glabrous, conspicu- 

 ously and minutely reticulate ; length 3-7 in., breadth l*25-2"75 in. ; 

 petiolules unequal, slender, varying from 'S-l'S in. long in the same leaf. 

 Panicle varying in length but usually shorter than the leaves, terminal, 

 glabrous or occasionally slightly pubescent, (stellate-pubescent in var. 

 macrophylla), dividing into several narrow branches bearing short 

 branchlets each terminating in an umbel of 10-15 depressed-globular 

 flowera 'J in. in diam.; their pedicels unequal, slender, 'ISr-'S in. in 

 length. Fruit ovoid, bluntly 5-ridged, 5-celled, glabrous, '15 in. long, 

 yellow when ripe. Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 729 ; Brand. 

 For. Flor. 294 ; Kurz For. Flor. I, 538. Paratropia venulosa, W. & A. 

 Prodr. 377 ; Wight 111. t. 118. Hedera venosa, Wall. Cat. 4923. H. 

 terehinthacea, Wall. Cat. 4920, (partly,). Aralia digitata, Roxb. Hiort, 

 Beng. 22 ; Flor. Ind. II, 107. 



Andaman Islands ; King's Collectors. Malacca ; Berry. 

 This specieSj so common from the base of the Eastern Himalaya southwards 

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