1896.] Or. King — Notes on the Indian Species of Vitis. 109 



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

 This plant is distributed from Assam southwards to the Malay Peninsula, 

 and there are specimens of it in the Calcutta Herbarium from Siam 

 and Timor. 



5. V. pentagon!, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 408. A species described 

 by Roxburgh in seventeen words, and stated by him to be common in 

 the forests of Chittagong. Roxburgh has left no figure of this species 

 in the Calcutta Herbarium. Amongst the considerable collections 

 which have been made within recent years by men sent to Chittagong 

 from the Botanic Garden Calcutta, the only Vitis which might possibly 

 be identified with V. pentagona is V. repens, W. and A. Dr. Prain col- 

 lected in the Great Coco island a leaf specimen which . may possibly 

 belong to V. pentagona. The name has indeed been given by Kurz to four 

 specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium brought from different parts of 

 Burma, but the whole material is, in my opinion, too incomplete to form 

 a sound opinion upon ; and I think that for the present V. pentagona, 

 Roxb., should be considered as a doubtful species, allied to and perhaps 

 identical with, V. repens, W. and A. 



6. V. glabereima, Wall. This, as accepted by Mr. Lawson, {see 

 note under V. sagittifolia) covers the two species issued by Wallich 

 under his No. 5991 ; viz., V. glaberrima proper, and V. cerasif 'omits, 

 T. and B. 



11. V. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 5988 A, This sheet A appears to 

 me to be one of several species included by Wallich in the seven gather- 

 ings which, (distinguished by Roman capital letters) he distributed 

 under the common name V. Heyneana. And, if the name is kept up at 

 all, this is the form which should be called V. Heyneana. It is, however, 

 to my eyes, exactly the plant to which Wight and Arnott gave the name 

 V. pallida ; and, as their description is a good one, and one which can 

 refer to only a single species, their name ought, in my opinion, to be 

 adopted, and Wallich's should be abandoned. 



13. V. gladca, W. and A. Prod. Following Wight and Arnott, 

 Mr. Lawson has reduced to this V. Kleiniana, Wall. Cat. 6008 a and b. 

 In the Calcutta Herbarium these letters are represented by specimens, 

 one of which I should refer to V. adnata ; the other I do not recognise. - 

 But neither is V. glauca, Roxburgh, as described by that author in his 

 Flora Indica, and as figured by him in the Calcutta Herbarium. In 

 fact the only specimens which I have seen which appear to me to agree 

 with Roxburgh's description and figure are Wall. Cat. 6819, which he 

 issued as Leea covdata, Wall., and Thwaites C. P. No. 2939, which was 

 issued by Thwaites as V. latifulia, Roxb. ? 



14. V. assamica, Laws, is an excellent species, widely distributed 



