Smilax.] CLVI. LILIACE^I. (J. D. Hooker.) 313 



large obtuse incurved auricles, male umbels very-man y-fld., pedicels hardly 

 longer than the sepals. A.DG. Monogr. Smilax, 200!' 



PENANG; Griffith, Curtis; PERAK, King's Collector. DISTEIB. Malaya, Cochin- 

 china. 



Branches stout, quite smooth, more or less prickly. Leaves retuse acute or 

 acuminate, nervules obscure. Inflorescence irregularly branched; peduncles of 

 umbels ^-3 in., bracteoles obscure ; buds in. long, clavate ; pedicels slender, about 

 as long j sepals linear ; filaments slender, anthers linear. 



32. S. Blumei, A.DG. Monogr. Smilax, 202 ; branches stout terete, 

 leaves 8-24 in. orbicular-ovate acute or obtuse tomentose beneath stoutly 

 5-7-costate from above the base, petiole 2 in. very stout, sheathing base 

 1 in. with inflexed sides and acute tips, fruiting umbels on a short stout 

 common peduncle, receptacle large globose deeply pitted, pedicels "1-1 4 in. 

 S. perfoliata, Blume Enum. 18 (not of Lour.}. 



MALACCA, Maingay, at Ulu Bubong, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Java. 



Branches prickly. Leaves coriaceous, costse and transverse nervules deeply sunk 

 above, highly raised beneath. Umbels on a common peduncle 1-3 inches long and 

 as thick as a crow-quill. " Ovules solitary, berries trigonous at the apex (Maingay 

 rnss.)." liesenibles 8. leucophylla, but the leaves are tomentose and not glaucous 

 beneath. 



33. S. G-riffithii, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 198; branches obtusely 

 angled smooth, leaves 7-10 by 2^-4^ in. ovate acuminate 5-7-costate from 

 the cuneate base coriaceous, petiole 1 in. articulate in the middle, base 

 sheathing with two rounded auricles, male panicles 7-umbelled buds 

 clavate. 



UPPER ASSAM, or UPPER BURMA, Griffith. 



Branch (young) with a very few minute prickles. Leaves red brown when dry. 

 Panicle 4 in. long. Umbels 2-4-nate ; peduncles ^ in. ; pedicels in. ; sepals i in., 

 narrowly obovate-oblong ; petals narrowly linear ; stamens shorter than the sepals. 

 This noble species was collected by Griffith in his journey from Assam to Burma; it 

 is in male fl. only, and the ticket bears no precise habitat beyond that it was gathered 

 on the 15th of some month, at an elevation of 5000 ft. probably either on the 

 Patkoy hills, where he was on March 15th, 1837, on Laim-Planj, or in the Mishmi 

 hills, where he was in Nov. 15th, 1836. The sepals are described as herbaceous 

 and coloured with brown. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



S. COLLINA, Kunth Enum. v. 261, founded on S. pseudo- China, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 792 from the Garrow hills, is unrecognizable. It may be S. zeylanica. 



S. DECIPIENS, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 91. Undeterminable. 



S. OBLIQUA, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 91. De Candolle (Monogr. 207) doubts this 

 being a Smilax, the stem is described as pubescent, the leaves oblong oblique 

 acutely 5-nerved and the spikes elongate compound. E. Indies. 



S. SINGAPOREKSIS, A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 177 ; S. calophylla, Wall. Cat. 5131 

 in Herb. Richard. De Caudolle describes this as differing from S. Helferi in its 

 few prickles, short sheaths of the petiole, the obtuse base of the more cuspidate 

 leaves, basal scale of the raceme, larger female flowers and longer less papillose 

 stigmas. He further remarks that three species have been distributed under 

 Wallich's S. calophylla. No doubt this is so, but the confusion of certain species in 

 the type collection of Wallich is so great that except the duplicate specimens (which 

 are in most cases mere fragments) were brought together, it is impossible to arrive 

 at any satisfactory identification of them. 



S. WALLICHII, KunthEnum. v. 246; A.DC. Monogr. Smilax, 178. S.prolifera, 



