400 G. Ming — Materials for a Fiord of the Malayan Peniu^ula^ ['No. 3'^ 



Tliere is one foi'm of tbis in wlikb the leaves are very nearly 

 sessile ; and in many specimens tlie upper leaves have sliort petioles 

 ?md rounded bases, while the lower have long petioles and cordate 

 feses^ As a riile tber leaves of this plant are- bea^stifitlly Tariegiited, 

 on the upper surface, bat individuals are not uncommon in which the. 

 leaves are green. 



23. YiTis EEFENS, "W. and Ara. Prod. FL Peijs. Ind. 124 Stems, 

 sub-terete when fresh, 4-angled when dry, glabrous, the young shoots 

 glaucous. Leaves pale green, more or less broadly ovate, shortly acu- 

 laiuate, tie margins wavy and with a few distant eetos© teeth, the base* 

 deeply and widely cordate ; main nerves about 4 pairs, the lower 

 branching outwards; length 25 to 3'5 in., breadth 1*75 to 3'25 in., 

 petiole "75 to r5 iti. C^/mes few-flowered iii shortly pedunculate 

 eo'inpoumd umbels or thyrses, pubescent toward the upper part. Flowers. 

 pointed in bud, '1 in. long, 4-merous. Fruit globose or obovoad, 'IS- in, 

 in diam. when dry, usually l-seeded with little pul{^, its pedicels re- 

 curved when ripe. Laws, in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 646; Kurz For,; 

 Flora Burma 1, 27 d. V. glauca, Wall, (not of Roxb.) Cat. £990 (for 

 the most part). Cissus repens, Lamk. Encyc. T, 31 ; DC. Prod. I, 628; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 605 ; Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 504. 

 ? C. cor data, Roxb. Fl. [nd. I, 407. 



Ferak: Wray, Nos, 1215, J858, 2142. Andamans : King's Col- 

 lector. — DiSTRiB. British Indin, Java. 



As was pointed out by Wallich^ this differ.s from V. glaherrima. 

 Wall, by its more deeply cordate leaves and smaller flowers. Closely 

 allied to this must be the species named Cissus pentagona by Roxburgh 

 (Fl. Ind. 1. 408) ; but Roxburgh's description is too brief to identity a 

 species by in such a difficult genus as Vitis ; and he has unfortunately 

 left no fiigure of V. pe^itagona at Calcutta. 



24. YiTis CERASiEORMis^ Tejsim. and Binn. in iN'at. Tijdscb. 'Ned. 

 Ind. XXIX, 251, var, Wallichii, King, Branches with pale shining 

 bark, obtusely 4-angled, not winged. Leaves oblong to ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded sub- truncate or slightly sub-cordate at the base, the apex 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate; the edges remotely crenate-seirate, the 

 ieetli setose ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, spreading : length 2 to 4 

 in., breadth 1-2 to 2-4 in. y petiole '5 to -75 in. Cynies few-flowered, lax, 

 under '5 in, in diam., in pedicelled umbels from a common peduncle '5 to 

 1 in. long, sometimes in small thyrses. Flowers large for the genus, 4-mer- 

 ous> their buds *2 in. long, pointed. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate ; petals 

 coriaceous. Fruit when ripe as large as a cherry and similarly coloured. 

 Vitis glaherrima, Wall. 6991 (in part) ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 646, {in part), Cissus cerasiformisy Planch, in DC, Mon. Phan. V 62J. 



