392 G. King — Materials for u Flma of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 8, 



tlie racliis but themselves perfectly glabrous, 4-merous: calyx truncate, 

 petals expanding. Fruit oblong, 3-4-angled, glabrous, "5 to "75 in. long ; 

 when ripe red, with scanty pulp and 3 or 4 plano-convex seeds, the 

 convex surface angular. V. cinnamonea, var. coinpositifolia, Wall. Cat, 

 5989 B. Ampel(ypsis compositifoUa, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 412. 



Penaiig : Wallich. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 418; 

 Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 826 and 5230 ; Scortecliini. 



9, YiTis ELEGANS, Kurz ill Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. XXVIII, 166. 

 Young stems, petioles, tendrils and inflorescence covered with dense 

 reddish-brown tomentum. Leaves S-foliolate, often pedately or digi- 

 tately 5-foliolate, the common petiole 3 or 4 in. long ; leaflets coriaceous, 

 trapezoid- oblong or broadlj^ oblong-lanceolate, much narrowed to the 

 base, the outer two often very unequal-sided with broad sub-truncate 

 or sub-cordate bases, the apices of all acute or sub-acute, and the 

 edges with remote shalloiv crenations and exserted bristle-teeth ; upper 

 surface covered with minute conical rugae each ending in a short white 

 hair, the midrib and nerves rusty-tomentose : lower surface uniformly 

 covered with dense short rusty tomentum ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 the outer lower nerve in the lower pair of leaflets branching outwards ; 

 length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1'75 to 3 in. ; petiolules "5 in., subequal. In- 

 florescence as in F. compositifoUa, but rather shorter and stouter ; the 

 flower buds oblong. Fruit unknown. Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1870 pt. 2, 74; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 659. 



Singapore : Walker, Ridley, Hullett and others. Johore : Hullett and 

 King. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 417. Distrib. — Bangka. 



This resembles V. compositifoUa Laws., hut has more coriaceous 

 leaves, rugulose-pubescent on the upper surface, and with shorter petioles. 

 The inflorescence of this is also shorter and stouter, and the flower-buds 

 are oblong rather than globular. The tomentum of this is shorter and 

 less cobwebby and is of a darker colour. Planchon identifies this with 

 Ciss7is thyrsiflora Bl. and it forms part of his Ampelocissus thyrsifloray 

 (DC. Mon. Phan. V, 409) — a reduction which he could hardly have pro- 

 posed had he seen specimens of G. elegans. For although the two have 

 many points of resemblance, their leaves are very different, those of 

 G. elegans having their upper surfaces minutely rugulose-papillate, 

 each papilla ending in a short white hair ; while in G. thyrsifloray 

 Blume the npper surface is smooth and glabrous except the nerves. 



10. ViTis SCORTECHINI, King n. sp. Branches woody, terete, 

 glabrous, scaberulous, not jointed. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-ovate, 

 sometimes oblique and rarely broad at the base and with two unequal 

 lobes about the middle, the apex shortly acuminate, the base minutely 

 cordate; the edges sub-entire, waved and slightly recurved, sometimes 



