1893*] G. King —^aleriaU for a Flora of the Mtdayan Penimula. 397 
in. in len^h, pentameroua ; the calyx flat, obflciirely tootlie^ ; petals 
pale outside, glabioas, oblong*. Rlpn frnit ovniil, j[jlnbt'oufi, flmtK>(]i, 
blfick, -25 in. long; soeda 2 or 3, if 2 plajiO'COJivex, if 3 triauguiar- 
cofivex. 
Pemk : Scortwhini, 313, 317.— Diftrib. Java. Forbes, Nos. 823, 983. 
Scorteeliiiii'fi spcciinonB are in fruit only, and Forbes's are in flower 
and liaro no fmits. Bnfc tli© two sets are so abaolntely identical in 
othei- respects, that I have ventured (quito contmiy to my usual 
pi'dcticc) to describe tho flowera from rjue Bet and fmit from another 
BPt of Rpecimens, The species of which this is a variety was fimt 
issued by WHilich as IS'o. 6020 of his catalogue, and was desci-ibed by 
iiim in his own and Cnrey's edition of Roxbutgh'a Flora Indica I, 481. 
(1824). In his Illustrations of Himalaya Botany (1S39), Roy le pub- 
lished what is really only a (^labroTis form of it under the name Cisens 
Jiimalayana, which Sir D, Brandis in his Forest Flora of the North- 
West Provinces of India reprodnces as Vttis Himalaymia. Laweon in 
Hooker's Flora of Brif ish India accepts Bi-andis'a name as that of the 
BpccieSj and uses Wtillich't^ trivial name semi-eonlata to desigriate, bs a 
variety, the form which Wallich published as a species. This state of 
matters I therefore propose to amend as follows — 
Vitis gemi cordafa, Wall. Cat. 6020; in Roxb. Fl. Tiid,, ed. Carey 
and Wall. J, 4BL 1^^ Himalat/aiui, Brandis^ var. semi-amlaia, Law.s. in 
Hook, fih Fl. Br. Ind. f, 650. Partkenocissus semi-eordata, Planch. Ui 
DC. Mon. Phan. Y, 451, 
Yar. 1 Boijlci. Vifis JJinmhyaua, Bi andia Foi\ Flora 100 ; Laws. 
I. c. 655. Aitipehpsu Uimalat/anni Royle III. Him. Bot, 149, A, neil- 
ghoirensis^ Wight Ic. 965. Oissus Ilimalmjnna^ Walp. Rep. I, 441. AW 
pnrts glabrous, leaves membranous ; flowers less than "15 in. long. 
Var. 2,, 8cortechinit AW parts glabrous; leaves obscurely aer- 
mte-crenate, sometimes almost entire, eoriaceons; flowers '15 in. long. 
18. ViTis CANTONiENSis, SccTn. BoL Herald 370. Whole plant 
glabrous. Steiii elender, cjlindric, 'Leaves unequally pinnate, or tlie 
lower pair of pinnae ternatcly compontid ; common petiole from "5 to 
1 in. long; leajlets small, membranous, glaacous beneath, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, remotely serrate in the upper two-thirds, 
entire and cnneato in the lower third ; main nerves 3 or 4 paira, faint ; 
length '75 to 1*5 in,, rarely 2 in. ; breadth *5 to 'VJj in., petiolules 1 to 
•2 in. Cymes umbellately-corymbose, dichotomous, about '75 in, across, 
theii' pef-inncles about 1'5 to 2 in. long. Floivers sub-globular, '1 in. long, 
S-merons. Calyx cnpular, obscui-ely toothed.. Petals thick, oblong ; 
disc fleshy, 5rlobed. Fruit obovoid, glabrous, -25 in. long, wilhont pulp. 
Seeds 3 or 4, the back rounded, ihe face wedge'Sbaped. Laws, in Hook. 
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