1896.] Gr. King— Maienais for a Flora of the Malayan Paainmla. :V.)0 



King's Collector, Nos.' 2934; Wray, Nos. 496, 1929.— Distrib. Java, 

 Bumati^a, British India, New Guinea, Cochin China, Mji,daga?5Ctir. 



21. ViTis FQiiCATA, Lavvs. in Hook. lil. Fi. Br. Ind. I, 646. HteMS 

 woody, terete, slightly swollen at the nodes but not jointed, glabrous 

 as are all the other parts except the inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, rarely ovate-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, tlie 

 edges faintly and remotely serrate, the base broad and rounded or 

 narrowed and sub-cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, the lower paler ; 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, ascending, the lower pair branch- 

 ing outwards; length 2 to 4 in., bieadth 1*1 to 25 in. Cymes in 

 spreading panicles shorter than the leaves, puberulous. 'Flowers 4- 

 mel^oUs, pointed, the buds about '1 in, long. Calyx truncate, glabi'CMis. 

 Petals minutely pubescent externally. Fruit obovate, glabrous, black 

 when ripe with scanty pulp and a single seed, about 35 or '4 in. long 

 when dry. 



Malacca: Maingay (TCew Distrib.), 424 ; Griffith, No. 1314; Berry, 

 382. Singapore: G-. Thomson ; Ridley, No. 47-18. Perak : Wray, Nos. 

 1235, 1430 ; King's Collector, Nos. 2716, 6315, 6858.— Distrib. Sumatra : 

 Forbes, No. 2534. 



Var. pit6e5ce7i5, branches of the cyme rufous -plibeseent-; pe-tak -aU 

 most glabrous externally. 



Province Wellesley: King's Collector, No. 1606. Perak : King's 

 Collector, No.^i. 794, 6429, 8402 ; Scoi-techini, No. 299. 



22. Vttis discolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. Yol. 11, 

 (1850), 39. Stems woody at the base only, glabrous, not glaucous, red 

 when young, sub-angular. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acu- 

 niinate, the edges remotely bristle-serrate, th-e base usually more or 

 l^ss deeply cordate, sometimes rounded or cuneate ; both surfaces glab- 

 rous, the upper in most cases variegated with red and white, the lower 

 purple: main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 'the lower pair branching outwards^ 

 length 2*5 to 4 in., breadth '85 to 2 in., petiole "2 to TiiS in. Cymes 

 umbellate on sletider peduncles, few-flowered, sparsely rufous-pubescent. 

 Flowers '1 in. long, oblong- in bud, 4-merous. Calyx truncate, petals 

 glabrous. Fruit globular, pyriform, glabrous, red when ripe and about. 

 •2 in. in diam., pulp scanty, seed solitary. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 40 ; 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, SQ ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I; 647. V. inseqnalis, Wall. Cat. 60 LO; W. & A. Prodr. 125. ? V. 

 diversifoUa, Wall. Cat. 5996. ? V. costata, Wall. Cat. 6011. Cissus 

 discolor, Blume Bijd. 181 ; Bot. Mag. 80, t. 4768 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, 

 Pt. 2, 606 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 453; Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 496. 



Perak: Scortechini. Andamans : King's Collector. -DiSTRiB. Java, 

 Sumatra, Cochin-China, British India. 



