1896.] G. King — Material* for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 389 



sessile or sub-sessile, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, 4-merous ; buds 

 sub-globose, under "1 in. long. Calyx cup- shaped. Fruit oblong, succulent: 

 seeds two, large, plano-convex, rugose. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 650. Cissus spicifera, Griff. Notulae IV, 963. Wall. Cat. 7468 indeterm. 

 Nothocissus spicigera, Plaiicli. in DO. Mon. Phan. V, 406. 



Malacca, Griffith (No. 1300 K. D. ) ; Deny No. 387 ; Maingay, No. 426 

 (K. D.), Harvey. Singapore : V/allich ; Ridley, No. 5585. Penano-, 

 Porter. Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 2078,3201, 6238, 10309: Wray, 

 No. 2164; Scortecl.ini, No. 482. Distuib. Sumatra. 



Strictly speaking the name of this should perhaps be Vitis speci- 

 fera. It is quite unlike any other Malayan Vitis and can be recognised 

 at once. 



3. Yms gracilis, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, II, 477, 

 Stems slender, terete, not jointed, covered with sparse long rusty 

 flexuose deciduous hair. Leaves broadly ovate-rotund, shortly acumi- 

 nate; the base usually cordate, rarely sub-truncate, the edges with 

 exserted bristle-teeth : upper surface sparsely strigose, the nerves 

 pubescent : under surfaces very sparsely strigose, the nerves bristly- 

 pubescent : main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curving upwards, the lower pair 

 branching outward; length 2'5 to 35 in., breadth 15 to 2"75 in* 

 petiole 1 to 1*5 in., rusty-sericeous. Inflorescence a slender pendulous 

 raceme of short sub-horizontal spikes borne on a long slender tendril, 

 the rachises rusty-sericeous. Flowers small, 4-merous, quite glabrous. 

 Fruit elliptic, smooth, glabrous, red, somewhat 3-angled, about *5 in. 

 long, with scanty pulp, and 4 large compressed seeds boldly ridged on 

 the inner surface. Wall. Cat. No. 6007 ; Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br, 

 Ind. I, 653. A mpelo cissus gracilis, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 407. 



Singapore : Wallich ; B.idley, No. 1922. Selangor, Ridley, No. 328. 

 Malacca; Derry. Perak: King's Collector, No. 10274; Wray, No. 1343, 



4. Vitis cinnamon ea, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, II, 483. 

 Stems woody, channelled on one side, not jointed, yellowish or rusty - 

 t-omentose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-reniform, sometimes 3-lobed, occa- 

 sionally 3-partite, the apex or the lobes if present shortly acuminate, 

 the edges sinuate-dentate with bristle points, or entire with exserted 

 bristle-teeth ; upper surface glabrous, dark olivaceous when dry, the 

 lower uniformly covered with a thin closely adherent layer of dense 

 cinnamoneous tomentum ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curving, spreading", 

 prominent, the lower pair mttch branched outwards ; length 5 to 7 in., 

 breadth 4 to 5 in.; petioles 2 - 5 to 3 in., tomentose. Inflorescence a slender 

 pendulous raceme of short sub-horizontal spikes borne on a lono- 

 peduncle from the slender tendril, much longer than the leaves, rufous 

 tomentose. Flowers sessile, glabrous, 4-merous, the buds sub-globular, 



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