FLORA OF THE MALAY PENINSULA 
VOLUME I 
Order I. RANUNCULACEiE. 
Perennial herbs or climbing shrubs. Leaves (alternate) or 
opposite, simple or compound. Flowers regular, bisexual. Sepals 
4, 5 or more, often petaloid. Petals 5 or more or absent. Stamens 
indefinite, free. Carpels numerous, distinct, each with a solitary 
pendulous or erect ovule. Seed with a minute embryo in abundant 
endosperm. Only section in our area Clematidece, climbing shrubs 
with opposite leaves. Abundant in temperate and cold regions, 
rare in the tropics and usually at high altitudes. Genera 30. 
Species 300. 
Petals none, climbing by the petiole . . . .1. Clematis 
Petals many, narrow, linear, spreading . . .2. Naravelia 
1. CLEMATIS, L. 
Woody climbers. Leaves opposite, simple (or compound) 
climbing by the petiole. Sepals 4 to 8, valvate, petaloid. Petals 0. 
Stamens numerous. Carpels many with long feathery tails. Species 
about 100, chiefly in temperate climates. 
(1) C. smilacifolia Wall. Asiat. Research, xiii. 414; Bot. Mag. 
t. 4259; King, Jonrn. As. Soc. Beng. lviii. (2), 363. 
A slender climber with simple ovate leaves, rarely pinnate, 
blunt, base broad, sub-cordate, 5- to 9-nerved, coriaceous, entire 
or serrate, 3 to 10 in. long, 1-5 to 5 in. wide; petioles as long. 
Panicles axillary, few-flowered, 6 to 12 in. long. Flowers 1 to 
1-5 in. wide. Sepals 4 or 5, oblong, pale brownish yellow, tomentose 
outside, deep purple within. Filaments linear, yellow. Achenes 
flat, pubescent with feathery tails, 2 in. long. Hab. Low country 
in open places, rare. Johor, Kota Tinggi; Pulau Tinggi. Penang; 
Road to Sungei Penang at 1000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Distrib. 
India, Siam, Malay islands. 
2 . NARAVELIA, DC. 
Woody climbers, slender. Leaves opposite, tri-foliate, terminal 
leaflet forming a tendril. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 6 to 12, narrow, 
Fi.M.P., I. B 
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