SS4! G. King — Materials foo' a Flora of tlie Malayan Peninsula, [N'o. 3, 



large number of specimens of Indo-Malayan Gouania, and I have 

 never seen one of true G. microcarpa from anywhere except Southern 

 Peninsular British India or Ceylon. That species is characterised 

 by sessile flowers covered externally by dense woolly wliite tomentum, 

 and by glabrous usually entire or sub-entire leaves ; while the flowers 

 of G. Javanica, although sometimes woolly, are more or less rufescent, 

 and the leaves are never quite glabrous or entire. The species of 

 Gouania run, however, very close together, and I am not sure that 

 it would not be better to reduce this and both G. onicrocarpa and 

 leptostachya to G. tiliaefolia Lamk. which dates from 1791. The 

 obscure Malayan species G. denticulata (Smith in Ree's Cyclop. 

 XYI) ; the West Indian G. pubescens (Lamk. 111. 845 t. 1, ex. Poir. II, 

 8 J 9) ; G. dasyantJia, (Miq. Analecta Bot. Ind. Ill, 6) and G. Retinariaf 

 DC. (Befinaria scandens, Gaertn. Fruct. II, p. 187 t. 120 fig. 4) appear 

 to me, from their descriptions, to be probably all reducible also to G. 

 tilisefolia, Lamk. 



Order XXXIII. Ampelideae. 



Shrubs, usually climbing by tendrils, sometimes erect (Leea) or 

 small trees ; juice copious, watery. Stems angled, compressed or cylin- 

 dric. Leaves alternate, usually petioled, simple or digitately or pedately 

 3-9-foliolate, rarely pinnate or decompound. Flowers in umbellate 

 paniculate or spicate cymes, or spicate. Peduncles often transformed 

 into simple or compound tendrils, or adhering to rocks or trees by viscid 

 pads terminating the ultimate segments, or expanded into a broad 

 floriferous membrane (Pterisanthes). Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, 

 rarely unisexual. Calyx small, entire or 4-5-toothed or- lobed. Petals 

 4-5, distinct or cohering, valvate, usually caducous. Stamens 4-5, 

 opposite the petals, inserted at the base of the disc or between its 

 lobes ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers free or connate, 2-celled, 

 introrse. Disc free, or connate with the petals stamens or ovary, 

 annular or variously expanded. Ovary 2-6-celled ; style short, slender, 

 conical, or ; stigma minute, or large flat and lobed ; ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell, ascending, anatropal, raphe ventral. Berry 1-6 celled, cells 

 1-2-seeded. Seed erect, often rugulose, albumen cartilaginous ; embryo 

 short, basal, cotyledons ovate. — Distrib. Species about 375, inhabiting' 

 the tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 

 Scandent shrubs, usually bearing tendrils. 



Flowers spicate or cymose. Ovary 3-celled, 



cells 2-ovuled ... ... ... 1. ViTis. 



Flowers sessile on the dilated membranous 



peduncle ... ... ... 2. Pterisanthes. 



