Gloriosa.] 
CXLVII. LILIACEjE. 
339 
(i) G. superba Linn. Sp. PL 305; Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 358. 
Stem climbing on bushes, 4 to 10 ft. tall. Leaves 6 to 8 in. 
long, narrow. Flowers solitary on pedicels 4 to 6 in. long, 3 to 4 in. 
across, base of petals yellow two-thirds red, finally all red. Petals 
and sepals crisped. Hab. Sandy open places, very doubtfully wild 
here, but it sometimes establishes itself from cultivation. It is 
poisonous. Malacca, Tanjong Kling “ apparently wild " (Maingay). 
Distrib. Africa, India, Cambodia, Malay islands. 
14. SMILAX, Linn. 
Climbing, rarely erect, shrubs often thorny. Leaves alternate, 
rarely opposite, ovate or lanceolate reticulate, coriaceous, 3- to 
5-nerved; petiole often with 2 tendrils at base. Flowers uni¬ 
sexual small umbelled, green or yellow. Sepals and petals 3 each. 
Stamens 6 from base of perianth, filaments filiform or short, rarely 
none. Staminodes in female flowers 3 or 6. Style short or o; 
stigmas 3. Berry with 1, 2 or 3 globose or hemispheric seeds. 
Species about 200, all tropics and some in temperate regions. 
(2) 
(3) 
S. myosotiflora 
S. peguana 
Small wiry erect shrub; anthers sessile . . (1) S. calophylla 
Climbers. 
Filaments very short; sepals incurved in flower. 
Leaves thin, green, oblong-ovate caudate 
acuminate ..... 
Leaves thick coriaceous, white beneath, ovate 
Filaments long, buds oblong. 
Stems rather slender; leaves moderate size. 
Branches unarmed. 
Fruit small; leaves lanceolate acute, thin 
Fruit small; leaves elliptic, rather thin . 
Fruit as large as a cherry; leaves stiffly 
coriaceous . . . . . (6) S. megacarpa 
Branches thorny. 
Stem sparsely thorny; leaves oblong 
Stem closely thorny .... 
Stem papillose granular and thorny 
Stem stout; leaves very large ovate; petiole 
with a large sheath; leaves white 
beneath. 
Stem hairy; sheaths moderate 
Stem thorny not hairy .... 
Leaves not white beneath, perfectly glabrous 
Leaves plain green; nerves and nervules 
sunk above, beneath tomentose . . (13) S. Blumei 
(7) 
( 8 ) 
(9) 
(10) 
(IX) 
(12) 
S. Isevis 
S. extensa 
S. Helferi 
S. polyacantha 
S. odoratissima 
S. barbata 
S. leucophylla 
S, Kingii 
fi) S. calophylla Wall. Cat. 5131; A. DC. Mon. Smilax, 60; 
Ridl. Mat. ii. 102. 
A wiry erect shrub, 2 ft. tall, unarmed. Leaves lanceolate 
acuminate, base acute, 3-nerved, glaucous beneath, 4 to 6 in. long, 
*75 to 2 in. wide; petioles *12 to *24 in. long. Umbels small sessile 
or nearly so. Male flowers globose, yellow. Sepals hooded obovate- 
oblong. Petals smaller, ovate flat. Anthers sessile on a disc. 
Fruit globose, red brown, *3 in. through. Seed 1, globose. Hab. 
