394 G. King— Materials fur a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



inflorescence, glabrous ; young branches striate, lenticellate, black when 

 dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic, 3-foliolate or pedately 

 4- to 5-foliolate, shortly cuspidate, the edges with remote shallow teeth ; 

 main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, spreading, thin, slightly prominent on the 

 u{)per surface ; length 4'5 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 3"5 in., petiolules '4i to 

 'So in. Cymes axillary, many-flowered, much branched, spreading, 

 about 1*5 in. in diara., puberulous, on peduncles shorter than themselves. 

 Flowers small, buds oblong and about '05 in. long, 4-merous, the calyx 

 truncate, the petals rusty-puberulous outside. Fruit globular-ovoid, 

 glabrous, '3 in. in diam., with very scanty pulp and a single large sub- 

 compressed seed grooved on one face and 3-ridged on the other. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collectors. 



A species allied to V. peduncidaris Wall, and of which very few 

 specimens have as yet been obtained, 



13. ViTis Wrayi, n. sp. King. Stems slender, terete, puberulous 

 when young. Leaves 3-foliolate ; common petiole 1 to 2 in. long ; 

 leaflets membranous, oblong-lanceolate, the middle one the largest ; 

 the laterals oblique, expanding towards the outer side, all shortly 

 acuminate and coarsely and remotely serrate except at the cuneate 

 base : main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, not prominent, spreading, curved ; 

 length 2'5 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 in. ; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 

 *2 to "4 in., of the central *5 to 1*25 in. : tendrils slender, forked. Cymes 

 slender, axillary, umbellate, spreading, 1 to 2 in. in diam., on slender 

 pedicels shorter than themselves. Flowers '1 in. long. Calyx flat, with 

 4 obscure teeth, pubescent. Petals 4, oblong, pubescent. Fruit depressed- 

 globular, glabrous, red when ripe, '45 in. in diam., with soft fleshy 

 epicarp. Seeds 2 or 3, oblong, compressed, «mooth, 3-sided, slightly 

 convex on one side and with an oblong mark, flattened on the other two 

 sides, one of them excavated and the concavity closed by a membrane, 

 the other side plane. 



Perak : Scortechini, No. 426. King's Collector, Nos. 2847, 4050, 

 5120, 6426 : Wray, Nos. 2749, 3945. 



This in some respects resembles V. novemfolia, but its leaves are 

 only 3-foliolate, and its seeds are different. 



14. ViTis Lawsoni, King. Young stems rather slender, tubercled 

 as are usually the older stems. Leaves 3-foliolate : common petiole 1*25 to 

 4 in. long, glabrous : leaflets oblong, tapering to each end, acuminate, 

 the margins (except at the entire bases ) remotely crenate-serrate, often 

 very obscurely so ; both surfaces glabrous ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 

 obscure ; length 25 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 1'5 in., petiolules "25 to '5 in. 

 Cymes small, 1 in. in diam., or less, dense, subsessile or on peduncles 

 •25 to 1 in. long -. tendrils free from the cymes, slender, often absent. 



