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Laws. On the third skeet of No. 5991 no locality is noted. On thia 

 sheet is glued down a specimen of a different species which I have 

 identified as a variety of the one named F". cerasiformis by Tejsmann 

 and Binniiidyk many years after the issue of Wallich's plants. The 

 fourth sheet of No. 5991 at Calcutta is occupied by stems of the latter 

 and a collection of leaves of both the former and latter. Tlie V. glaber- 

 rima, of Wall. Cat. is thus a mixed species ; and as such the name would 

 have had to be dropped had not VVallich published a description of his 

 Penang No. 5991 under that name in Carey's edition of Roxburgh's Flora. 



26. Vrris mollisstma, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 482. 

 Stems rather slender, woody, when young softly pubescent, when adult 

 glabrous and shining. Leaves- 3-foliolate; the common petiole 2 to 25 in. 

 long, tomentose ; leaflets petiolulate, the lateral pair obliquely elliptic, the 

 terminal obovate-elliptic,.'all with shortly acuminate apices, and coarsely 

 but sparsely serrate or sub-entire edges ; the lateral pair with rounded 

 or sub-cordate the terminal one with a cuneate base ; upper surface 

 sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the midrib and nerves rusty-tomentose ; 

 the lower uniformly and softly-tomentose : main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 

 ascending, the lower branching outwards ; length 325 to 5 in., breadth 

 1-75 to 2*75 in., petiolules of the lateral leaflets .'25 to "4 in., those of 

 the terminal twice as long ; tendnls slender. Cymes half as long as the 

 leaves ; their peduncles 1'5 to 3 in. long, umbellate, spreading, many- 

 branched, many-flowered, 1'5 to 2*5 in. across, minutely tomentose. 

 Flowers '1 in. long, oblong, 4-merous ; calyoi short, truncate; petals 

 puberulous outside. Fruit oblong, '75 to 1 in. long, when ripe dirty 

 white, with scanty pulp and two large plano-convex seeds. Wall. Cat. 

 6012 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 656. Gissiis mollissima. Planch, 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 575. 



Penang; Wallich, Curtis No. 1435. Malacca; Griffith, No. 1332, 

 Maingay (Kew Uistrib.), No. 422. Pahaug : Ridley, No. 1134. Perak : 

 King's Collector, Nos. 2744, 4223, 5848 and 10485. 



27. ViTis TRIFOLIA, Linn. Sp. PI. 203. Stems compressed, herba- 

 ceous, or woody near the base only, when young shortly and densely 

 pubescent, becoming sub-glabrous with age. Leaves 3-foliolate, common 

 petiole 1*25 to 225 in. long; leaflets shortly petiolulate, ovate, obovate 

 or sub-rhomboid, shortly cuspidate, coarsely serrate or dentate, the 

 bases rounded, more or less pubescent on both surfaces ; main nerves 

 5 or 6 pairs, slightly curved and ascending ; length 1-5 to 2*5 in., 

 breadth '8 to 1*25 in., petiolules of the lateral leaflets "l to "25, of the 

 terminal twice as much ; tendrils short, slender, usually branched. Cymes. 

 2 or 3 in. in diam., pubescent, on long peduncles rather exceeding the 

 leaves, about. 3-branched, the umbellules cjmose. Flowers 4-merous, 



