]89(3.] G. King— Matenah fur a Fiord of the Malayan Pe^iinsuJa. 389 



sessile or sub-sessile, solitary or in fascicles oE 2 or ■% 4<-nicrous ; buds 

 sub-glolmse, under •). in. long, Cahjx cup-sliapcd. Fruit oblong, succulent': 

 seods two, largo, plano-convex, rugose. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 650. Cissiis spicifera, Griff. Notulae IV, 963. Wall. Cat. 7468 indcterm, 

 Nothocissus spitigera, Plancb. iu'DGv Mon. Plian. V, 406. 



Malacca, Griffith ( No. 1300 K. D. ) • Deny No. 387 ; Maingay, No. 426 

 (K. D.), Harvey. Singapore : Wallicli ; Ridley, No. 5585. Penang, 

 Porter. Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 2078,3201, 6238, 10309: Wray, 

 No. 2164; Scortecliini, No. 482. Distimb. Sumatra. 



Strictly speaking the name of (his sliould perhaps be Vitis sped- 

 fera. It is quite unlike any other Malayan Vitis and can be recognised 

 at once. 



3. Vitis gracilis, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, II, 477: 

 Stems slender, terete, not jointed, covered with sparse long rusty 

 flexuose deciduous hair. Leaves broadly ovate-rotund, shortly acumit 

 nate; the base usually cordate, rarely sub-truncate, the edges •with: 

 exserted bristle-teeth: upper surface sparsely strigose, the nerves 

 pubescent : under surfaces very spaisel}'^ strigose, the nerves bristly- 

 pubescent : main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curving upwards, the lower pair 

 branching outward; length 2*5 to 3*5 in., breadth 15 to 275 in.; 

 petiole 1 to P5 in., rusty-sericeous. ' Jw/Zore^oewce a slender pendulous 

 raceme of short sub-horizontal spikes boine on a long slender tendril, 

 the rachivses rusty-sericeous. Flowers small, 4-merous, quite glabrous. 

 Fruit elliptic, smooth, glabrous, red, somewhat 3-angled, about "5 in. 

 l-ong, with scanty pulp, and 4 large compressed seeds boldly ridged on 

 the inner suiface. Wall. Cat. No. 6007 ; Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 653. A mpelocissus gracilis, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan, V, 407. . 



Singapore : Wallicli ; Ridley, No. 1922, Selangor, Ridley, No. 328. 

 Malacca; Derry. Perak: King's Collector, No. 10274; Wray, No. 1343. 



4. Vitis cinnamon ea. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, II, 483. 

 Stems woody, channelled on one side, not jointed, yellowish or rusty- 

 tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-reniform, sometimes 3-lobed, occa- 

 sionally 3-partite, the apex or the lobes if present shortly acuminate, 

 the edges sinuate-dentate with bristle points, or entire with exserted 

 bristle-teeth ; upper surface glabrous, dark olivaceous when dry, the 

 lower uniformly covered with a thia closely adherent layer of dense 

 cinnamoneous tomentum ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs,, curving, spreading, 

 prominent, the lower pair much branched outwards ; length 5 to 7 in., 

 breadth 4 to 5 in. ; petioles 2*5 to 3 in., tomeutoso. Inflorescence a sleuddi' 

 pendulous raceme of short sub-horizontal spikes borne on a long 

 'peduncle from the slender tendril, much longer than the leaves, rufous 

 tomentose. Flowers sessile, glabrous, 4-mei'Ous, the buds sub-globular. 



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