1896.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 393 



obscurely serrate ; upper surfaces glabrous, the lower softly and shortly 

 cinereous-pubescent especially on the nerves ; main nerves about 8 

 pairs, curved, spreading, prominent on the lower surface ; length 5 to 

 7 in., breadth 2*5 to 35 in., petiole 75 to 1-25 in. Cymes compact, 

 many -flowered, umbellate, about 1 in. in diam., on a peduncle "5 to J in. 

 long, minutely rusty-tomentose. Flowers small, pedicellate, 4-merous • 

 petals minutely tomentose externally. Fruit globular, smooth, '25 in. in 

 diam., with scanty pulp and usually only one perfect seed, waxy- white 

 when ripe. 



Perak : Scortechiui ; King's Collector, Nos. 2897, 4644, 5942. 



Var. puhescens, young stems pubescent, lower surface of leaves 

 tomentose. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 5998. 



11. ViTis PEDDNCOLARis, Wall. Cat. 6024. Stems stout, woody, with 

 lenticellate brown bark, the youngest rusty-pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate, 

 the common petiole 3 to 6 in. long ; leaflets petiolulate, coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate or elliptic, the lateral pair oblique, all shortly cuspidate, 

 the edges crenate-serrate ; the base of the lateral pair unequal -sided, 

 that of the lateral cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; the 

 lower sub-glaucous, reticulate ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, prominent 

 on the lower surface, bearing a few scattered hairs ; length 35 to 55 

 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiolules of the lateral leaves '5 in. long, of 

 the terminal about -75 in., all stout ; tendrils simple. Cymes from the 

 old wood, when in flower much shorter than the leaves, when in fruit 

 almost as long, on long peduncles, umbellate, much branched in the 

 upper part, covered with coarse short rusty pubescence. Flowers small, 

 numerous, 4-merous. GaJyx very short, flat. Pe^aZs pubescent,* conjoined 

 at first, their apices forming small divergent pointed processes, afterwards 

 separating. Stigma 4-lobed. Fruit globular, somewhat depressed, "25 in. 

 in diam., red when ripe, 2- to 3-seeded ; seeds triangular-obovoid. Laws, 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. I, 655. V. puhiflora, Miq. in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. I, 74. Cissus puhiflora,. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 516. 

 Tetrastigma ? pedunculare, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 438. 



Penang: Wallich. Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), No. 423.. 

 Perak : Scortechini, No. 207 ; Wray, No. 366 ; King's Collector, Nos. 

 3521, 3970, 5087, 5364. Distrib.— Sumatra. 



A species readily distinguished at a glance by its many-flowered 

 much-branched cymes emerging from the old stems, and by its coriaceous 

 leaves glaucous and boldly reticulate beneath. The petals are at first 

 conjoined, except their apices which diverge ; afterwards they separate 

 and spread slightly from the base. 



12. ViTis Andamanica, King, n. spec. All parts, except the 



