1898.] G, King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 397 



in. in lenjDfth, pentamerous ; the calyx flat, obscurely toothed; petals 

 pale outside, glabrous, oblonjr, Jlipc fruit ovoid, glabrous, smooth, 

 black, -25 in. long ; seeds 2 or 3, if 2 plano-convex, if 3 triangular- 

 convex. 



Pei-ak: Scortechim,313, 317.— DisTiUB. Java. Forbes, Nos. 823, 983. 

 Scortecbini's specimens are in fruit only, and Forbes's are in flower 

 and have no fruits. But the two sets are so absolutely identical in 

 other respects, that I have ventured (quite contrary to my usual 

 prnctice) to describe the flowers from one set and fruit from another 

 set of specimens. The species of which tliis is a variety was first 

 issued by Wallich as No. 6020 of his catalogue, and was described by 

 him in his own and Carey's edition of Roxburgh's Flora Indica I, 481, 

 (1824). In his Illustrations of Himalaya Botany (1839), Royle pub- 

 lished what is really only a glabrous form of it under the name Gissns 

 himalayana^ which Sir D. Brandis in his Forest Flora of the North- 

 West Provinces of India reproduces as Vitis Himalayana. Lawson in 

 Hooker's Flora of British India accepts Brandis's name as that of the 

 species, and uses Wallich's trivial name semi-cordata to designate, as a 

 variety, the form whicli Wallich published as a species. This state of 

 matters I therefore propose to amend as follows : — 



Vitis semi cordata, Wall. Cat. 6020 ; in Roxb. Fl. Tnd., ed. Carey 

 and Wall. I, 481. V. Himalayana, Brandis, var. semi-cordata, Laws, in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 656. Parthenocissus semi-cordata, Planch, in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. Y, 451. 



Yar. 1 Roylei, Vitis Himalayana, Brandis For. Flora 100 ; Laws. 

 I. c. 655. Ampelopsis Himalayana, Royle 111. Him. Bot. 149. A. neil- 

 gheirensis, Wight Ic. 965. Cissits Himalayana, Walp. Rep. I, 441. All 

 parts glabrous, leaves membranous ; flowers less than '15 in, long, 



Yar. 2., Scortechinii. All parts glabrous ; leaves obscurely ser- 

 i-ate-crenate, sometimes almost entire, coriaceous ; flowers '15 in, long. 



18. YiTiS CANTONIENSIS, Seem. Bot. Herald 370. Whole plant 

 glabrous. Stem slender, cylindric. Leaves unequally pinnate, or the 

 lower pair of pinnae ternately compound ; common petiole from '5 to 

 1 in. long; leaflets small, membranous, glaucous beneath, lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, remotely serrate in the upper two-thirds, 

 entire and cuneate in the lower third ; main nerves 3 or 4 pairs, faint ; 

 length -75 to 1-5 in., rarely 2 in. ; breadth '5 to '75 in., petiolules -1 to 

 •2 in. Cymes umbellately-corymbose, dichotomous, about -75 in. aci-oss, 

 their peduncles about PS to 2 in. long. Flowers sub-globular, '1 in. long, 

 5-merous. Calyx cupular, obscurely toothed. Petals thick, oblong; 

 disc fleshy, 5-lobed. Fruit obovoid, glabrous, '25 in', long, without pulp. 

 Seeds 3 or 4, the back rounded, the face wedge-shaped. Laws, in Hook. 

 J. II. 51 



