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The first author to put this plant into the genus Pterisanthes was 

 Korthals who (fide Miquel Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 85), thus named 

 it in the Herbarium (at Leiden ?). Miquel regarded Pterisanthes as only 

 a section of Vitis. He had therefore to find a name for this plant in 

 that genns ; and, finding the name V. coriacea pre-occupied by a species 

 of Cisms (DC. Prod. I, 632), he called this V. polita, Miq. 



- Yar. araneosa ; Leaves often ovate-oblong, always more or less 

 rufescent cobwebby beneath. Vitis araneosa, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. I, 94. Cissus araneosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 517. 



Perak: King's Collector, No. 646 ; Wray, Nos. 2556, 3015, 4621. 

 Mr. Wray in bis field note on this says " leaves with a shining 

 black line round the edge on the outer margin of which is a line of 

 warm brown hair, midrib beneath reddish." 



2. Pterisanthes cissoides, Blume Bijdr. 193. Stems glabrous, 

 striate. Leaves 3-foliolate ; the middle leaflet narrowly wedge-shaped, 

 the two lateral more Cr less oblong, rounded on the outer side, straight 

 on the inner, all with a few obscure distant teeth in the upper half or 

 third, entire in the lower; both surfaces with deciduous arachnoid 

 hairs, glabrous when adult ; main nerves about 4 pairs, spreading ; 

 length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1*25 to 3in., petioles 1*5 to 35 in. ; petiolules 

 of the middle leaflets twice as long as those of the lateral. Flattened 

 floriferous rachis of the inflorescence variously lobed, from 2 to 6 in. long 

 and less than half as broad, borne on tendril-bearing branches longer 

 than the leaves, Male flowers on slender pedicels '75 in. long, 4-merous. 

 Female flowers numerous. Fruit globose, '35 in. in diam., with coriaceous 

 epicarp and about 4 seeds. Miquel in Linnaea, XVIII, 385, t. VIII ; 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, 608 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 664. Vitis 

 Pterisanthes, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 94. Fmhamma cordigera, 

 Griff. Notulae IV, 694 : Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 646. Cissns involucrata, Spreng. 

 Syst. IV, pt. 2, 44. Pterisanthes involucrata, G. Don. Syst. I, 694. 



Malacca : Griffith (Kew Dist.), No. 3299 ; Maingay. Perak : Scor- 

 techini ; King's Collector, Nos. 727, 7914. — Distrib. Java. 



3. Pterisanthes heterantha, Laws, in fcJook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 

 664. Stems cobwebby when young, ultimately glabrous. Leaves 3- 

 foliolate, rarely 5-foliolate, the middle leaflet more or less wedge-shaped 

 and usually broader than the obliquely ovate-oblong laterals, (sometimes 

 all three more or less oblanceolate), acute or shortly acuminate, 

 remotely glandular-dentate in the upper part ; upper surface glabrous 

 except the pubescent nerves ; the lower rusty-tomentose ; main nerves 

 of leaflets about 5 pairs, spreading, rather straight; length 2 to 4*5 in., 

 breadth "8 to 2*5 in., petioles '8 to 1-5 in. Flattened rachis narrowly- 

 oblong, sinuate, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long and -3 to -75 in. broad, borne 



