1896.] G. King — Materials f or a Flora of the Malayan Fetiimtda. 
Flowera rather tnore than i hi. long, caljx trnncnto or obscnrely 
4-tootbed. Petals 4, white. Fruit sab-g-tobatftrj emootb, pulpy ; s«eds 
3 or 4j com pressed, gi-ooved in frnit. VUia iubercnlatctj Lawson (not of 
Wftll.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 656. Ctssm tuheicnlata, BL Bijdr. 
189; Miq. FK Ind. Bat. Vol. J, pt. 2, 604. sub TetiwUgjjm lanceolaviwn, 
Plancli. DC. Mon. Phan. V. 424. 
Peuang t Cartis, Noa. 1580. Perak : Scortechini, No. 269. Wray, 
No. 1926, 2017, 2247. King's Collector, Nob. 1852, iJ047, 3081, 6287. 
6134. 
This is no doubt closely allied to Vttis Jawcfo^aWa, Wall, to which 
PlftBchon redoces it, Bnt the stnaller and globular fruits, sninller 
leaTea with fewer nerves, and the g-eneral absence of tendrils difiting-oish 
it well. Thia is the plant which Blnme called 0i*fr*5 inherculafa ; hot 
it ia not the Vitis tuhercHlata of WalHch which becomes Vitis rumicisper- 
fMrt, Lnwaon. For this species Mr. Lawson keeps Bluiiic'a fipeciSic name, 
bat ho changes its generic name to Vilis — a course which 1 regi-et 
to be unable to follow, first becau.se there is an earlier Cissm luheT' 
cnlata than BlumeV, {viz., that of Jaeqnin dating^ fi-om the years 171)7 to 
1804 during which that author's Ilortns Schoenhrnnue?iBiji was published, 
and which is therefoi-e the plant to which any author who reduces 
Oissus to Vilis ought to give the name V, htherctdaia) ; second, becaus© 
Bin me did not call his plant Vilis luhercidala bat Gissm tuberenlakt, 
15. Vitis LAXCEOLAau, Wall. Cat. G013 (most of the lelters). 
Whole plant except the inflorescence glabi-ons : stems sometimes boldfj 
tubercnlafee. Leaves nsuEilly S-foliolate, sometimes pedatoly 5-foHolafe r 
common petiole 2 to 5 inches ton*^; leaflets softly coda coons, obtong 
or elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end, sometimes obovate-oblong, 
always shortly caudate-acuminate and the edges with remote shallow 
teeth ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, spreading, slightly winged on the 
lower surface : length 4"5 to 6 iu., bi-eadth 1*75 to 2 75 in., petiolulcs 
^4 to "75 in. Ci/mes axillary, puberulous, spreading, about 1*5 iu. across, 
on peduncles shoi-ter than themselves. Tendrils rather slioi-t, forked. 
Fhu ers 4-merous, the stigma 4-lobed, Frnit globose*- ovoid, as Inz-ge as a 
cherry, white when ripe, pnlpy, 1- or 2-secded j tlie seeds compressed, 
concave on one surface, njgnlose. W. and A. Prod. 128; Wight Ic. 177; 
Brand. For. Flora 101 ; Laws, in Hook. iil. FL Br. Ind. I, 660 (in 
part); Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 272; Trimcn Floi-a Ceylon, I, 
296. Teirastigma lanceolarium^ Planch, in 0C. Mon. Phsn. Y, 424, 
Vitis muncata, Wall. Cat. 6015 ; W. and A. Prod. 128; WigEit Tc. 740. 
Ciss»8 lanccolaria, Koxb. Fl. Tnd. I, 412: DC. Prod. I, 632; GiTihani 
Cat. Bomb, PI. 33 ; Thwaites Kuum. PI. Ceyt. 63. Oissus muricaia, 
var, minor. Thwaites Fnum. 63. 
