Smilax.] oLvi. liliaobjb. (J. D. Hooker.) 311 



A lofty climber J branches terete, sparsely prickly. Zemes shining, acute or 

 cuspidate, or young acuminate, base rounded or cordate, margins of petiolar sheath 

 incurved. Common peduncle l-l^ in., stout, bracteate at the base; bracteoles 

 subulate J pedicels i-| in.; male fl. largest, filaments very slender; fem. with 

 narrower petals ; staminodes 3 ; ovary broadly ovoid; stigmas sessile. Berries i in. 

 diam^Wight s figure is inaccurate in representing the costse of the leaf as free to 

 the base, and peduncles and pedicles as far too slender.— De CandoUe gives 

 Khasia hills, Kurz, as a habitat, but I have seen no specimens, and suspect some 

 error. 



27. S. polyacantha, Wall. Cat. 5127; branches slender closely 

 pnclily, leaves 4^6 by 1^-2 in. coriaoeous elliptic-lanceolate acuminate at 

 both ends 3-5-costate from above the base, petiole stout narrowly sheath- 

 ing below the middle, umbels solitary or 2 on a very short common 

 peduncle many-fld., fem. sepals Jj in. long. Kuntk Enum. v. 239 ; A.BC. 

 Monogr. Smilax, 176. 



PENAN0, Porter. 



Branches terete, as thick as a crow-quill, prickles short, straight. Leaves 

 narrowed into the petiole, which is |-1 in., strongly 3-costate with slender sub- 

 marginal nerves; cirrhi slender. Common peduncle very stout, partial (fruiting) 

 §-1 in., stout; receptacle ovoid; bracteoles minute, ovate; fern. fl. very small. 

 Ovary with short recurved styles. 



28. S. Roxburg'hlana, Wall. Gat. 6116 ; branches terete, branch- 

 lets 4-angled, leaves 6-8 in. polymorphous oblong ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate base rounded cordate or cnneate 3-5-costate from above the 

 base, petiole with very large broad 2-anricled sheaths below the middle, 

 umbels solitary or 2-3 on a common peduncle many-fld., sepals i in. long, 

 linear-oblong, stamens as long as the sepals. S. ocreata and orthoptera, 

 A.BG. Monogr. Smilax, 193 ; S. macrophylla, var. caoharensis, A.DG. I. c. 

 194. S. profifera, Wall. Gat. 5124 B, D, in part. S. laurifolia, Boxh. in 

 Wall. I. c. 



Tropical Himalaya from Garwhal Eastwards, Silhet, Cachae, the Khasia 

 Hills and Behab (on Farus-nath). 



Stems more or less prickly; branches smooth. Leaves on young shoots 6 by 

 1^2 in., thin, lanceolate base acute, petiole ^1 in. ; in older 8 by 3^ in., ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, on still older 5-7 by 2^4 in. oblong or broadly 

 orate coriaceous 5-costate, base rounded cordate or truncate ; costaa in all united 

 above the base ; auricles in old leaves 1-1^ in. produced behind into rounded lobes 

 embracing the branch. Umbels 1-3; peduncles very variable in length and posi- 

 tion, common peduncle 1-3 in., bracteate at the base; receptacle globose; fem. 

 mnbels 12-15-fld., pedicels i in., slender; staminodes 3; stigmas long, recurved. 

 Berries ^ in. diam., pedicels as long or longer. Seeds 2, hemispheric or solitary and 

 globose, less than ^ in. diam. 



29. S. megracarpa, A.DG. Monogr. Smilax, 186; branches terete 

 smooth unarmed, leaves 3-7 in. elliptic ovate or oblong 3-costate from 

 above the base, petiole |-li in., sheath short narrow, umbels many-fld., 

 pedicels \ in. slender, sepals \ in. long ligulate, petals very narrow, 

 filaments very long slender, berry the size of a cherry 3-seeded, seeds 

 lenticular. 



The Khasia Hills, Griffith. Mki.kcoL, Maingay. Peeae ; Larut, Kunstler. 

 — DiSTEiB. Tonkin. 



There are two forms (or species) included here, difl"ering greatly in foliage, 

 a Khiisian and Malayan, but agreeing in their remarkable fruit and seeds. Buth 

 have fruiting branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, very rigid, unarmed. In 

 the Khasian the leaves are elliptic or ovate 3-4 by 1- nearly 2 in., obtusely acuminate 



