406 Gf. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pemusnla* [No. 3, 



Leaves compound, digitate. 



Inflorescence of corymbose or umbellate 

 leaf -opposed or axillary cymes. 

 Leaves trlfoliolate. 



Flowers usually 5-merous, tendrils absent 17. V. serntconlata. 

 Flowers 4-merous, tendrils usually pre- 

 sent. 



Leaflets more or less softly tomentose 26. V. mollissima. 



Leaflets- slightly pubescent on both 



surfaces ... ... ... 27. V. trifolia. 



Leaflets glabrous on the upper, glau- 

 cous on the lower, surface ... II. V. peduncular™. 

 Leaflets glabrous on both surfaces, not 

 glaucous. 



Flowers only '05 In. long ,- seeds 

 convex on one surface, 3-ridged on 

 the other ... ... ... 12. V. andamanica. 



Flowers "1 in. long. ' 



Fruit dry, seeds3-sided, excavated 



on one side ... ... 13. V. Wrayi. 



Fruit pulpy ; seeds compressed, 



grooved in front ... ... J 4. V. Lawsnni. 



Leaves 3- to 5-foliolate ; flowers 4-merous. 

 Leaflets quite glabrous. 



Fruit pulpy ; seeds compressed, con- 

 cave on one surface, convex and 

 . rugulose on the other .. . ... 15. V. lanceolaria. 



Fruit dry; seeds obovoid, slightly 

 compressed, shortly beaked, not 

 rugulose, vertically grooved on both 

 surfaces ... ... ... 16. V. Kunstleri. 



Leaflets glabrous or pubescent ; seeds 

 triangular with one side convex and 

 very ' rugose, the other two sides flat ■ 

 and one of them with a membrane- 

 closed pit ... ... „.. 28. V.japonica. 



Leaves pedately 7- to 9-foliolate ; seeds 

 globular with one side plane and with a 

 membrane-elosed pit ... ... 29. V. novemfolia. 



Inflorescence a slender pendulous much 

 elongate raceme of short horizontal spikes 

 borne on a leaf -opposed tendril. 



Both surfaces of leaflets glabrous- ... 5. V. polvstackga. 



