189e.] G. King— MateriaU for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 401 



Singapore: Ridley, Nos. 1924, G3.S0, King. Perak : Scortechini. 

 No. 262; Wr«,y, No. 2858: King's Collector, Nos. 6212, 10170.— Dis- 

 TKIB. Java, Forbes 480 ; Sumatra Forbes, Nos. 2.58iJ, 2861a. 



The various specimens to vvbicli I have given the varietnl nam© 

 Wallichii vary somewhat as to the form of tiieir leaves, some having 

 them oblong with nearly truncate bases, while others have them broadly 

 ovate with slightly cordate bases. In all, however, the leaves aro 

 broader than those in the typical form found in Java and originally 

 described by Tey&mann and Binnindyk, the bases of which are moreover 

 GUneate. The large flowers and fruit, both of the typical form and of 

 the variety Wallichii, however, at once distinguish this from the hastate 

 or sagittate-leaved species which Wallicli confused with it under one 

 common name as V. glaherrima. 



25. Vrris glabbruima, Wall, in Roxb Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 476 ; 

 C2hi. h^d, (injjart). A weak climber, with herbaceous sub-compressed 

 4-angled slightly winged glaucous stems, the bark dark when dry. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, with broadly sagittate-cordate sub-hastate or 

 sub-truncate bases, always attenuated upwards to the acute apex, the 

 edges minutely and remotely bristle-serrate-crenulate ; main nerves 4 or 

 5 pairs, faint, spreading, the lower branching outward ; length 2 to 

 4 in., breadth 1'2 to 1'75 in. ; petiole '6 to '8 or even 1*5 in. in the 

 lower leaves. Cymes small, "3 to "6 in. in diam., umbellate on short 

 pedicels from the apex of a common peduncle '4 to "8 in. long. Flowers 

 4-merous. Berry obovoid, 2-seeded, 'Ih in. in diam. when dry. W. 

 and A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. 125 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 646 

 {in part). Vitis hastata, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 85. Vitis sagit- 

 tifolia, Laws, in Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. I, 645. Cissus glaherrima^ 

 Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 498. Cisstis hastata, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 517, Vitis diffusa, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 646. 



Singapore:. Anderson, No. 78; Hullett, No. 230, King. Malacca; 

 King. Perak : Scortechini, Wray. Penang ; Wallich, King. Kedah ; 

 Curtis No. 2606. Province Wellesley ; King. Andamans and Nicobars ; 

 King's Collectors. Distrib. Sumatra, Bangka. 



Under the name V. glaherrima and the number 5991, Wallich 

 distributed two species of Vitis gathered partly in Penang and partly 

 in Singapore. These two gatherings are not, as is usual with Wallicb 

 ill similar cases, distinguished by letters. On two of the four sheets of 

 No. 5991 which are now present in the Calcutta Herbarium, " Penang" 

 is given as the locality ; and these agree with the description of the 

 species Vitis glaherrima from Penang which was published by Wallich in 

 Carey's edition of Roxburgh's Flora Indica. This Penang plant agrees 

 absolutely with type speciinens of Vitis hastata^ Miq. and F. sagitiifulia, 



