Smila.r.'] CLVI. LILIACE^I. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 



Branchlets slender, terete, smooth, unarmed. Leaves rather thin, 3-costate to 

 the rounded or cnneate base j petiole narrowly sheathing, unarmed, cirrhi very 

 slender. Umbels many-fld. ; peduncle ebracteate ; pedicels -5 in. ; bracteoles 

 subulate ; flowers very small, white ; buds depressed-globose, deeply 6-lobed from the 

 groove on the back of the obovate cucullate coriaceous sepals ; petals minute ; 

 stamens very short ; staminodes in fern. fl. 3. There is an excellent figure of this 

 in Roxburgh's collection of drawings. That author describes the leaves as white 

 beneath, but this is not obvious in herbarium specimens. The roots are nodose, as 

 in the " China-root." 



2. S. calophylla, Wall. Gat. 5131 ; leaves 4-6 by f-lj in. oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate 3-costate glaucous beneath base acute, petiole -J in., 

 sheath obscure, umbels few-fld. sessile on an axillary rachis, pedicels 

 decurved. A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 60. 



SINGAPORE and PEEAK, Wallich, Cantley, Wray, King's Collector ; summit of 

 Mt. Ophir, Hullett. 



Branchlets strict, terete, or slightly grooved, unarmed. Leaves opaque, costa 

 stout, reticulations faint ; petiole jointed about the middle. Flowering branches 

 1-4 in., erect, slender, with a lanceolate bract above the base; umbels 3-4, 1 in. or 

 more apart ; pedicels T \y-i in., unequal ; male fl. globose, about ^ in. diam. ; sepals 

 deltoid, fleshy, concave, deeply grooved down the back ; petals small, flat; anthers 

 sessile round a circular disk, deltoidly ovate, cuspidate. Berries \ in. diam. , red. 

 Fein. fl. not seen. 



3. S. peg-liana, A.DG. Monogr. Smilax, 62 ; leaves l|-3 by f-lj in. 

 elliptic oblong or ovate-oblong 5-7-costate white beneath, base acute or 

 cuueate, petiole i-f in., sheath very obscure, male umbels axillary very 

 shortly peduncled many-fld., pedicels very short, anthers subsessile. 



BURMA, Griffith (Keto Distrib. 5424) ; Taipo hills, Srandis ; Moolyet, alt. 

 5000 ft., Gallatly. 



Branchlets slender, terete, unarmed. Leaves shining above, laxly reticulate on 

 both surfaces ; petiole twisted, terete. Peduncle rarely longer than the petiole ; 

 bracteoles minute, broadly ovate ; pedicels i in. ; flowers -^ in. diam. ; male sepals 

 ovate, concave, coriaceous, not channelled on the back ; petals very small, oblong, 

 obtuse ; anthers broad ; filaments very short. The specimens are few and not in 

 good state. Griffiths No. 5424, referred by A.DC. to hypoglauca, is certainly 

 peguana. 



4. S. myosotiflora, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 65 ; branches slender 

 terete, leaves oblong-ovate caudate-acuminate 3-costate, petiole short, 

 sheath very narrow, peduncles short axillary solitary compressed, male fl. 

 subsessile, anthers minute sessile. S. extensa, Wall. Cat. 5126 A. 



PENANG, Porter. PERAK, Wray, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Java. 



Branches very smoth, unarmed. Leaves 5-7 by 2-2f in., thin when dry, trans- 

 lucent when fresh, nervules very delicately closely reticulate, base cuneate rounded or 

 subcordate ; petiole \ in., cirrhi slender. Male peduncle in.; flowers i in. diam., 

 subcapitate, rather fleshy ; sepals broadly oblong, incurved ; petals narrow ; anthers 

 ovoid. Berries i"in. diam., 1-seeded ; fruiting peduncles |-1 in. ; pedicels |-^ in. 

 The male flowers of Javan specimens are a good deal larger than the Indian. Fern, 

 fl. not seen. Wallich's 8. extensa being a mixture I have retained De Candolle's 

 name for this ; his specimen of this had neither flower nor fruit. 



Sect. II. EUSMILAX. Buds oblong or clavate. Sepals and petals 

 recurved in flower. Ovules one or two in the ovarian cells. 



* Flowers very small or minute. Sepals ^-^ in. long. Stamens much 

 shorter than the sepals ; staminodes 1-3. 



