1896.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 395 



Flowers rather more than "1 in. long, calyx truncate or obscurely 

 4-toothed. Petals 4, white. Fruit sub-globular, smooth, pulpy; seeds 

 3 or 4, compressed, grooved in fruit. Vitis tuberculata, Lawson (not of 

 "Wall.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 656. Gissus tuberculata, Bl. Bijdr. 

 1S9 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 604. sub Tetrastigma lanceolarium, 

 Planch. DC. Mon. Phan. V., 424. 



Penang : Curtis, ISTos. 1580. Perak : Scortechini, rTo. 269. Wray, 

 No. 1926, 2017, 2247. King's Collector, Nos. 1852, 3047, 3081, 6287, 

 6134. 



This is no doubt closely allied to Vitis lanceolaria, Wall, to which 

 Planchon reduces it. But the smaller and globular fruits, smaller 

 leaves with fewer nerves, and the general absence of tendrils distinguish 

 it well. This is the plant which Blume called Gissus tuberculata ; but 

 it is not the Vitis tuberculata of Wallich which becomes Vitis rumicisper- 

 ma, Lawson. For this species Mr. Lawson keeps Blume's specific name, 

 but he changes its generic name to Vitis — a course which I regret 

 to be unable to follow, first because there is an earlier Gissus tuber- 

 culata than Blume's, (viz., that of Jacquin dating from the years 1797 to 

 1804 during which that author's Hortus Sclioenbrunnensis was published, 

 and which is therefore the plant to which any author who reduces 

 Cissus to Vitis ought to give the name V. tuberculata) ; second, because 

 Blume did not call his plant Vitis tuberculata but Gissus tuberculata. 



15. Vitis lanceolasia, Wall. Cat. 6013 (most of the letters). 

 Whole plant except the inflorescence glabrous : stems sometimes boldly 

 tuberculate. Leaves usually 3-foliolate, sometimes pedately 5-foliolate : 

 common petiole 2 to 5 inches long; leaflets softly coriaceous,, oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end, sometimes obovate-oblong, 

 always shortly caudate-acuminate and the edges with remote shallow 

 teeth ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly winged on the 

 lower surface: length 4'5 to 6 in., breadth 1*75 to 2/75 in., petiolules 

 '4 to '75 in. Cymes axillary, puberulous, spreading, about 1*5 in. across, 

 on peduncles shorter than themselves. Tendrils rather short, forked. 

 Flowers 4-merous, the stigma 4-lobed. Fruit globose-ovoid, as large as a 

 cherry, white when ripe, pulpy, 1- or 2 -.seeded ; the seeds compressed, 

 concave on one surface, rugulose. W. and A. Prod. 128; Wight Ic. 177 ; 

 Brand. For. Flora 101 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 660 (in 

 part); Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 272: Trimen Flora Ceylon, I, 

 296. Tetrastigma lanceolarium, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 424. 

 Vitis muricata, Wall. Cat. 6015 ; W. and A. Prod. 12S ; Wight Ic. 740. 

 Gissus lanceolaria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I, 412: DC. Prod. I, 632; Graham 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 33; Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 63. Cissus vain'cata, 

 var. minor, Thwaites Enum, 63. 



