Smilax.] CLVI. LILIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 307 



many-fid., solitary and bracteate towards the base or two on along common peduncle, 

 special peduncles 23 in., very slender; pedicels -f in. ; bracteoles small, ovate ; male fl. 

 in. diam , sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse; petals very narrow; staminodes of fern, 

 fl. 6 ; ovary oblong ; stigmas very long, free to the base, revolute ; ovules solitary 

 (or 1-2 in one cell solitary in the others ?). 



15. S. XLingrii, Hook.f. ; brandies very stout granulate, leaves 5-10 in. 

 orbicular-ovate or elliptic and very large cymbiform petiolar sheaths 

 thickly coriaceous 5-7-costate from the base, petiole 2-3 in. ; umbels 1-3 on 

 a very short common peduncle, partial peduncles 1-3 in., pedicels l|-2 in., 

 sepals % in. long. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA ; Perak, King's Collector. 



Stem 40 ft. ; branches angular, lower as thick as the little finger with many 

 conical spines ^ in. long. Leaves very smooth on both surfaces ; nerves obscure, 

 immersed; petiole as thick as a goosequill ; sheath cymbiform of lower leaves with 

 sometimes large spines ; cirrhi very stout. Fern. fl. sepals broadly oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse ; petals very narrow ; staminodes 3 ; ovary oblong ; style one-third as long, 

 stigma much longer than the style. Berry 1 in. diam. Male fl. not seen. 



16. S. pallescens, A. DC. Monogr. Smilax, 198; branches terete 

 granulate, leaves 5-10 by 2-3| in. narrowly oblong tip rounded and 

 broadly caudate thin pale 5-costate from the rounded or subacute base, 

 petiole | in. obscurely sheathing articulate at the middle. 



UPPER ASSAM ; in the Mishmi hills, Griffith. 



The solitary specimen of this fine species consists of a branch with leaves and 

 male racemes with a solitary flower. The branch is unarmed, not scabrid like 

 aspericaulis, and hardly warted as described by De Candolle, but granulate ; the 

 racemes are very slender, 2-5 in. long, white, the umbels 1-3-nate, peduncles 

 3 5 in. divaricate, the bracts are all gone.' I have seen no flowers. Griffith describes 

 them as greenish-brown spotted with red, and with white anthers. 



Branches smooth, usually aculeate. 



a. Umbels solitary rarely 2-nate ; peduncle bracteate or not below the 

 middle. 



17. S. ferox, Wall. Cat. 5119 ; branches stout aculeate, leaves 2f-3fc 

 by 1-2 in. elliptic or ovate- or obovate-oblong acute or mucronate rigid 

 3-5-costate base cuneate or rounded, petiole in. broad coriaceous 

 sheathing tumidly for half its length, sepals and petals oblong sub- 

 equal, stamens 6-9 one-third shorter than the sepals. A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 

 103. S. China, Maxim. Dec. v. 172 (the Indian plant). S. Thomsoniana', 

 A.DC. I. c. 104. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim alt. 5-8000 ft. /. D. H. BENGAL, 

 Griffith (Kew distrib. 5440). MUNNIPORE, Watt. DISTRIB. Tonkin. 



A stout shrub ; branches strongly prickly, terete, branchlets unarmed, angled. 

 Leaves epunctate and elineol^te, marginal nerves very slender, nervules faint; 

 petiole jointed at the sheath. Umbels from the young shoots only, of which the 

 leaves are membranous subglaucous beneath; peduncles rather stout, solitary, 

 rarely 2-nate, ^-f in. long or shorter ; bracteoles ovate, acuminate sepals - in. long, 

 ovate-oblong; petals similar; staminodes 3 ; ovary oblong, short styles, stout. 

 Barries % in. diam., 1-2-seeded. The stamens are certainly sometimes 9 in Sikkim 

 specimens. De Candolle remarks on the close affinity of this with the "China," 

 Sm. China, which he refers to sect. Nemexia, having 2-ovuled cells of the ovary ; 

 he further distinguishes S. feroso by the leaves not cuneate at the base, which, 

 however, they sometimes are. I find no characters whereby to distinguish S. Thom- 

 soniana as a variety. 



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