1896.] G-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 407 



Upper surfaces of leaflets glabrous except 

 the midrib and main nerves. 



Lower surface with pale cobwebby pubes- 

 cence ... 

 Lower surface rusty pubescent. 



Main nerves of leaflets 5 to 8 pairs ; 

 flowers oblong, fruit obovoid-oblong, 

 slightly angled 



Main nerves 8 to 10 pairs ; flowers 



sub-globular, fruit oblong boldly 3- to 



4-angled 



Upper surfaces of leaflets minutely rugulose- 



papillose, each papilla ending in short hair ... 



6. V. polythyrsou 



7. V. thyrsiflora, 



8. V. compositifolia. 



9. V. elegans. 



Leaves pinnate or bi-pinnate ; flowers 5-merous... 18. V. cantoniensis, 



2. Pterisanthes, Blume. 



Scandent tendril-bearing slender shrubs. Leaves simple or tri- 

 foliolate, digitate or pedate. Flowers small, 4-5-merous, inserted on a flat- 

 tened membranous rachis, a few pedicellate on the margin, the others 

 sessile and sunk in the tissue of the rachis. Calyx cupular or obscurely 

 toothed. Petals deciduous. Disc cushion-like, 4- or 5-angled. Style 

 short; stigma capitate. Perry obovoid or globose, 1 to 4-seeded. — Dis- 

 teib. 4 species, all Malayan. 



Leaves simple ... ... ... 1. P. coriacea. 



Leaves 3-foliolate. 



Adult leaves glabrous ... ... 2. P. cissoides. 



Adult leaves rusty-tomentose beneath ... 3. P. heterantlm. 



Leaves 5-foliolate ... ... ... 4. P. pedata. 



1. Pterisanthes coriacea, Korth. ex. Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 

 I, 95. Stems slender, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, the edges distantly and sometimes obscurely glandular-dentate, 

 sligbtly revolute wben dry, the base minutely cordate ; main nerves 

 about 4 or 5 pairs, rather faint, spreading, the reticulations distinct, 

 both surfaces glabrous and shining; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1"75 to 

 3*35 in., petiole "75 to L25 in. Inflorescence on a slender (often tendril- 

 bearing) peduncle, membranous, narrowly oblong, 4 or 5 in. long and 

 about L in. broad ; the edges wavy, reddish when fresh. Male flowers 

 4-merous, few, distant, "15 in. in diam., their pedicels "5 in. long. 

 Female flowers numerous. Fruit sessile, globular, glabrous, 3 in. in 

 diam. P. polita, Lawson in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Irid. I, 663'. Yitis poh'ta, 

 Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I, 85. 



In all the provinces except the Andamans and Nicobars : common. 



