402 Gr. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3. 



Laws. On the third sheet of No. 5991 no locality is noted. On tin's 

 sheet is glued down a specimen of a different species which I have 

 identified as a variety of the one named V. cerasiformis hy Teysmann 

 and Binnindyk many years after the .issue of Wallich's plants. The 

 fourth sheet of No. 5991 at Calcutta is occupied by stems of the latter 

 and a collection of leaves of both the former and latter. The V. glaber- 

 rima of Wall. Cat. is thus a mixed species ; and as such the name would 

 have had to be dropped had not Wallich published a description of his 

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



26. Vitis mollissima, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 482. 

 Stems rather slender, woody, when young softly pubescent, when adult 

 glabrous and shining. Leaves 3-foliolate; the common petiole 2 to 2'5 in. 

 long, tomentose; leaflets petiolulate, the lateral pair obliquely elliptic, the 

 terminal obovate-elliptic, all with shortly acuminate apices, and coarsely 

 but sparsely sei^rate or sub-entire edges ; the lateral pair with rounded 

 or sub-cordate the terminal one with a cuneate base ; upper surface 

 sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the midrib and nerves rusty-tomentose ; 

 the low T er uniformly and softly-tomentose : main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, 

 ascending, the lower branching outwards ; length 325 to 5 in., breadth 

 175 to 2*75 in., petiolules of the lateral leaflets ;25 to "4 in., those of 

 the terminal twice as long ; tendrils slender. Cymes half as long as the 

 leaves ; their peduncles 1*5 to 3 in. long, umbellate, spreading, many- 

 branched, many-flowered, 1*5 to 2'5 in. across, minutely tomentose. 

 Flowers '1 in. long, oblong, 4-merous ; calyx short, truncate ; petals 

 puberulous outside. Fruit oblong, '75 to 1 in. long, when ripe dirty 

 white, with scanty pulp and two large plano-convex seeds. Wall. Cat. 

 6012 ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 656. Cissiis mollissima, Planch. 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 575. 



Penang; Wallich, Curtis No. 1435. Malacca; Griffith, No. 1332, 

 Maingay (Kew Uistrib.), No. 422. Pahang: Ridley, No. 1134. Perak : 

 King's Collector, Nos. 2744, 4223, 5848 and 10485. 



27. Vitis trifolia, Linn. Sp. PL 203. Stems compressed, herba- 

 ceous, or woody near the base only, when young shortly and densely 

 pubescent, becoming sub-glabrous with age. Leaves 3-foliolate, common 

 petiole T25 to 2 - 25 in. long; leaflets shortly petiolulate, ovate, obovate 

 or sub-rhomboid, shortly cuspidate, coarsely serrate or dentate, the 

 bases rounded, more or less pubescent on both surfaces ; main nerves 

 5 or 6 pairs, slightly curved and ascending; length T5 to 2"5 in., 

 breadth '8 to l - 25 in., petiolules of the lateral leaflets *1 to '25, of the 

 terminal twice as much ; tendrils short, slender, usually branched. Cymes 

 2 or 3 in. in diam., pubescent, on long peduncles rather exceeding the 

 leaves, about 3-branched, the umbellules eymose. Flowers 4-merous, 



