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Gloriosa.] CXL VII. LILIACE..E. 339<br />
(1) G. superb a Linn. Sp. Pl. 305; Hook. fit. F.B.I. vi. 358.<br />
Stem climbing on bushes, 4 to 10 ft. tall. Leaves 6 to 8 in.<br />
long, narrow. Flowers solitary on pedicels 4 to 6 in. long, 3 to 4 in.<br />
across, base of petals yellow two-thirds red, finally all red. Petals<br />
and sepals crisped. Hab. Sandy open places, very doubtfully wild<br />
here, but it sometimes establishes itself from cultivation. It is<br />
poisonous. Malacca, Tanjong Kling" apparently wild" (Maingay).<br />
Distrib. Africa, India, Cambodia, Malay islands.<br />
14. SMILAX, Linn.<br />
Climbing, rarely erect, shrubs often thorny. Leaves alternate,<br />
rarely opposite, ovate or lanceolate reticulate, coriaceous, 3- to<br />
5-nerved; petiole often with 2 tendrils at base. Flowers unisexual<br />
small umbeIIed, green or yellow. Sepals and petals 3 each.<br />
Stamens 6 from base of perianth, filaments filiform or short, rarely<br />
none. Staminodes in female flowers 3 or 6. Style short or 0;<br />
stigmas 3. Berry with 1, 2 or 3 globose or hemispheric seeds.<br />
Species about 200, all tropics and some in temperate regions.<br />
Small wiry erect shrub, anthers sessile (I) S. calophylla<br />
Climbers.<br />
Filaments very short; sepals mcurved in flower.<br />
Leaves thin, green, oblong-ovate caudate<br />
acummate . . . . . (2) S. myosotiJIora<br />
Leaves thick coriaceous, white beneath, ovate (3) S. peguana<br />
Filaments long, buds oblong.<br />
Stems rather slender; leaves moderate size.<br />
Branches unarmed.<br />
FrUit small; leaves lanceolate acute, thm (4) S. lrevis<br />
Fruit small; leaves elliptic, rather thm. (5) S. extensa<br />
Fruit as large as a cherry; leaves stiffly<br />
coriaceous (6) S. megacarpa<br />
Branches thorny.<br />
Stem sparsely thorny; leaves oblong<br />
Stem closely thorny. . .<br />
Stem paplllose granular and thorny .<br />
Stem stout; leaves very large ovate; pebole<br />
with a large sheath; leaves white<br />
beneath.<br />
Stem hairy; sheaths moderate<br />
Stem thorny not hairy. . .<br />
Leaves not white beneath, perfectly glabrous<br />
(7) S. Helferi<br />
(8) S. polyacantha<br />
(9) S. odoratissima<br />
(10) S. harbata<br />
(I I) S. leucophylla<br />
(12) S. Kingii<br />
Leaves plain green; nerves and nervules<br />
sunk above, beneath tomentose . (13) S. Blumei<br />
.<br />
(1) S. calophyUa Wall. Cat. 5131; A. DC. Mon. Smilax, 60;<br />
Ridl. Mat. ii. 102.<br />
A wiry erect shrub, 2 ft. tall, unarmed. Leaves lanceolate<br />
acuminate, base acute, 3-nerved, glaucous beneath, 4 to 6 in. long,<br />
'75 to 2 in. wide; petioles '12 to '24 in. long. Umbels small sessile<br />
or nearly so. Male flower_s,globose, yellow. Sepals hooded obovateoblong.<br />
Petals smaller, ovate flat. Anthers sessile on a disc.<br />
Fruit globose, red brown, '3 in. through. Seed I, globose. Hab.
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