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bristle teeth near the apex, the base narrowed ; lower surface minutely 

 i-eticulate ; length 2 to 3*5 in. breadth - 85 to 1'35 in.; petiolules of the 

 middle leaflets sometimes as much as 3 in. long, those of the lateral 

 leaflets from *2S to 1*25 in. ; tendrils long, slender, forked. Cymes 

 axillary, pubernlous, much-branched, spreading, 3 to 6 in. across, on 

 peduncles as long as the leaves. Flowers broadly ovoid in bud, '15 in. 

 long, 4-merous ; the calyx cupular, truncate; the petals broad, minutely 

 puberulous externally ; disc large, cupular, thin. Fruit ovoid or sub- 

 globular, with two deep grooves, glabrous, "3 in. in diam., without pulp j 

 seeds 2, globular, truncate and with a deep pit on one side, the opening 

 occluded by a membrane. Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 662. 

 Cissus novemfolia, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 559. 



Perak : Scortechini, JSTo. 1728 ; King's Collector, Nos. 1245, 2736. 

 Andavnans : King's Collectors. 



The plant above described agrees with "Wallich's imperfect speci- 

 mens from Singapore. Tt is readily recognised by the great inequality 

 of the petiolules of its leaflets. The middle leaflet is usually quite free 

 from the others and has a much longer petiolule than they have. 



Species imperfectly known. 



Vitis cortacea, DC. Prod. I, 632. A species from Timor too briefly 

 described by De Candolle for accurate identification. There are in 

 the Calcutta Herbarium specimens from the Andamans (King's Col- 

 lectors, No. 3000) and from Sumatra (Forbes, No. 1344), both of 

 which agree with a specimen in the Kew Herbarium named V. coria- 

 cea, DC. The Sumatra specimens have pedately 5- to 7-foliolate leaves ; 

 the leaflets are coriaceous, glabrous, obliquely oblong or obovate-oblong, 

 bluntly cuspidate, remotely serrate-crenate, with rounded or tapering 

 bases ; they are 2 - 5 to 4. in. long and 1*35 to 1*75 in. broad ; the cymes 

 are widely branching, nearly 3 in. across when in fruit, and on short war- 

 ted peduncles 1 in. long : the fruit is ovoid-globose, "2 in. in diam., with 

 a thick pericarp and no pulp. The seeds are large, solitary, ovoid, 

 smooth, with shallow transverse markings and a very shallow vertical 

 groove down each face. In the Andaman specimens the leaflets are 

 larger and less coriaceous, the cymes are larger (6 in. wide), and the 

 fruit and seeds are slightly longer. But the appearance and structure 

 of the seeds is exactly the same in both ; and I believe both may be 

 V. coriacea, DC. 



