1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 399 



King's Collector, Nos. 2934 ; Wray, Nos. 496, 1929.— Distrib, Java, 

 Sumatra, British India, New Guinea, Cochin China, Madagascar, 



21. Vms furcata, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Er. Ind. I, 646. Stems 

 woody, terete, slightly swollen at the nodes but not jointed, glabrous 

 as are all the other parts except the inflorescence. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate, rarely ovate-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 edges faintly and remotely serrate, the base broad and rounded or 

 narrowed and sub-cuneate; both surfaces glabrous, the lower paler ; 

 main nerves 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, ascending, the lower pail* branch- 

 ing outwards; length 2 to 4 in,, breadth 11 to 25 in. Cymes in 

 spreading panicles shorter than the leaves, puberulous. Flowers 4- 

 merous, pointed, the buds about - l in. long. Calyx truncate, glabrous. 

 Petals minutely pubescent externally. Fruit obovate, glabrous, black 

 when ripe with scanty pulp and a single seed, about "35 or '4 in. long 

 when dry. 



Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.), 424 ; Griffith, No. 1314; Deny, 

 382. Singapore : G. Thomson ; Ridley, No. 4748. Perak : Wray, Nos. 

 1235, 1430 ; King's Collector, Nos. 2716, 6315, 6858.— Distrib. Sumatra; 

 Forbes, No. 2534. 



Var. pubescens, branches of the cyme rufous-pubescent ; peials al- 

 most glabrous externally. 



Province Wellesley : King's Collector, No. 1606. Perak : King's 

 Collector, Nos. 794, 6429, 8402 ; Scortechini, No. 299. 



22. Vms discolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. Vol. II, 

 (1850), 39. Stents woody at the base only, glabrous, not glaucous, red 

 when young, sub-anguhir. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acu~ 

 minate, the edges remotely bristle-serrate, the base usually more or 

 less deeply cordate, sometimes rounded «r cuneate ; both surfaces glab- 

 rous, the upper in most cases variegated with red and white, the lower 

 purple : main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, the lower pair branching outwards ; 

 length 2:5 to 4 in., breadth "85 to 2 in., petiole - 2 to l'iJ5 in. Cymes 

 umbellate on slender peduncles, few-flowered, sparsely rufous-pubescent. 

 Flowers "1 in. lon°f, oblong in bud, 4-merous. Calyx truncate, petals 

 glabrous. Fruit globular, pyriform, glabrous, red when ripe and about 

 "2 in. in diam., pulp scanty, seed solitary. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 40 ; 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 86; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 647. V. insequalis, Wall. Cat. 60 L0; W. & A. Prodr. 125. ? F. 

 diversifolia, Wall. Cat. 5996. ? V. vostata, Wall. Cat. 6011. Cissus 

 discolor, BlumeBijd. 181 ; Bot. Mag. 80, t. 4763 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, 

 Pt, 2, 606 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Ear. 453; Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 496. 



Perak: Scortechini. Andamaus : King's Collector. --Distrib. Java.. 

 Sumatra, Cochin- China, British India, 



