40. AMPELIDE.B. 133 



ad 6 poll, longa, ramulia pedicellisque brevibus gracillimis ; 

 calyx cupularis, truncatus, margine scariosa ; petala cohserentia 

 calyptratim decidua ; stamina 5, glabra, antheris magnis ; dis- 

 cus nullus ; ovarium glabrum, 2-loculare, stigmate parvo sessili 

 indiviso ; ovula in quoque loculo 2 geminata, erecta vel adscen- 

 dentia. Fructus deest. 



Hupeh: Ichang (A. Henry !). Herb. Kew. 



6. Vitis heterophylla, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 103 ; DC. Prodr. i. 

 p. 634 ; Benth. Fl. Honyk. p. 53 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Luyd.- 

 Bat. i. p. 92. 



Ampelopsis heterophvlla, Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Acad. Munch. 1846, 

 p. 197. 



Ampelopsis humulifolia, Bunge, Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. p. 12 ; Debeaux, 

 Fl. Tchef. p. 37- 



Cissus brevipedunculata, Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 68. 



Cissus bryonifolia, Regel, Fl. Ussur. t. 3. fig. 3, non Bunge. 



Vitis heterophyllse varietates, Regel, Consp. Gen. Vitis, p. 4, excl. PI. 

 Am. Bor. 



Vitis sinica, Miq. in Journ. de Bot. Nierl. i. p. 125? 



Chihli, Shingking, and Corea, common ; and extending to 

 Kanstth, Hupeh, Formosa, and Hongkong. Mua.Brit. ; Herb. 

 Kew. 



Japan, common. 



Even in the northern part of its area this species exhibits 

 great variability ; but whether the southern forms referred to it 

 really belong to the same species is a little doubtful. 



7. Vitis bimalayana, Brandis, Forest Fl. Ind. p. 100 ; Laws, 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 655. 



Ampelopsis himalayana, Boyle, III. Him. Bot. p. 149. 

 Cissus himalayana, Walp. Rep. i. p. 441. 



Vitis (Cissus) semicordata, Wall., j3. himalayana, Kurz ex Hance in Journ. 

 Bot. 1878, p. 9. 



Kwangtung : Whampoa (Hance, 6055 !). Herb. Kew. 

 Kashmir to Sikkim and the Khasia mountains. 



8. Vitis inconstans, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. 

 p. 91 ; Begel, Consp. Gen. Vitis, p. 5. 



Cissus Thunbergii, Sieb. et Zucc, et Ampelopsis tricuspidata, eorund. in 

 Abhandl. Acad. Munch. 1846, pp. 195 et 196. 



Ampelopsis Veitchii, Hort. ; Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 838, et n. s. xiy. 

 p. 664, fig. 126. 



