Smilax.] CLVI. LILIAOE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 311 



A lofty climber; branches terete, sparsely prickly. Leaves sbining, acute or 

 cuspidate, or young acuminate, base rounded or cordate, margins of petiolar sheath 

 incurved. Common peduncle 1-1^ in., stout, bracteate at the base; bracteoles 

 subulate; pedicels A | in.; male fl. largest, filaments very slender; fern, with 

 narrower petals ; staminodes 3 ; ovary broadly ovoid; stigmas sessile. Berries \ in. 

 diam. Wight's figure is inaccurate in representing the costae of the leaf as free to 

 the base, and peduncles and pedicles as far too slender. De Candolle gives 

 Khasia hills, Kurz, as a habitat, but I have seen no specimens, and suspect some 

 error. 



27. S. polyacantha, Wall. Cat. 5127; branches slender closely 

 prickly, leaves 4-6 by l|-2 in. coriaceous elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at 

 both ends 3-5-costate from above the base, petiole stout narrowly sheath- 

 ing below the middle, umbels solitary or 2 on a very short common 

 peduncle many-fld., fern, sepals \ in. long. KuntTi Enum. v. 239 ; A.DC. 

 Monogr. Smilax, 176. 



PENANG, Porter. 



Branches terete, as thick as a crow-quill, prickles short, straight. Leaves 

 narrowed into the petiole, which is -|-1 in., strongly 3-costate with slender sub- 

 marginal nerves; cirrhi slender. Common peduncle very stout, partial (fruiting) 

 -1 in., stout; receptacle ovoid; bracteoles minute, ovate; fern. fl. very small. 

 Ovary with short recurved styles. 



28. S. Roxburg-hiana, Wall. Gat. 5115 ; branches terete, branch- 

 lets 4-angled, leaves 5-8 in. polymorphous oblong ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate base rounded cordate or cuneate 3-5-costate from above the 

 base, petiole with very large broad 2-auricled sheaths below the middle, 

 umbels solitary or 2-3 on a common peduncle many-fld., sepals i in. long, 

 linear-oblong, stamens as long as the sepals. S. ocreata and orthoptera, 

 A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 193 ; S. macrophylla, var. cacharensis, A.DC. I. c. 

 194. S. prolifera, Wall. Cat. 5124 B, D, in part. S. laurifolia, Roxb. in 

 Wall. I. c. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA from Garwhal Eastwards, SILHET, CACHAE, the KHASIA 

 HILLS and BEHAB (on Parus-nath). 



Stems more or less prickly; branches smooth. Leaves on young shoots 6 by 

 1^-2 in., thin, lanceolate base acute, petiole ^-1 in. ; in older 8 by 3| in., ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, on still older 5-7 by 2^-4 in. oblong or broadly 

 ovate coriaceous 5-costate, base rounded cordate or truncate ; costae in all united 

 above the base; auricles in old leaves 1-1^ in. produced behind into rounded lobes 

 embracing the branch. Umbels 1-3 ; peduncles very variable in length and posi- 

 tion, common peduncle 1-3 in., bracteato at the base; receptacle globose; fern, 

 umbels 12-15-fld., pedicels in., slender; staminodes 3; stigmas long, recurved. 

 Berries % in. diam., pedicels as long or longer. Seeds 2, hemispheric or solitary and 

 globose, less than in diam. 



29. S. meg*acarpa, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 186; branches terete 

 smooth unarmed, leaves 3-7 in. elliptic ovate or oblong 3-costate from 

 above the base, petiole f-l in., sheath short narrow, umbels many-fld., 

 pedicels % in. slender, sepals ^ in. long ligulate, petals very narrow, 

 filaments very long slender, berry the size of a cherry 3-seeded, seeds 

 lenticular. 



The KHASIA HILLS, Griffith. MALACCA, Maingay. PESAZ ; Larut, Kunstler. 

 DISTRIB. Tonkin. 



There are two forms (or species) included here, differing greatly in foliage, 

 a Khasian and Malayan, but agreeing in their remarkable fruit and seeds. Both 

 have fruiting branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, very rigid, unarmed. In 

 the Khasian the leaves are elliptic or ovate 3-4 by 1- nearly 2 in., obtusely acuminate 



