40. AMFELTDEJ5. 135 



Kegel treats this as a variety of V. Labrusca, which is perhaps 

 the best course. 



12. Vitis pachyphylla, Hemsl, n. sp. 



Scandens, glabrescens, ramulis crasshisculis primum parce 

 piloaulis. Folia petiolata, trifoliata ; foliola breviter petiolulata, 

 glabra, crassa, coriacea vel subcarnosa, leviter insequalia, late- 

 ralia oblique oblonga, basi rotundata, terminale obovatum basi 

 cuneatum, omnia pauciserrata, serris callosis, vix acuta, venis 

 immersis inconspicuis ; petiolus 4-61ineas longus, crassus, stipulae 

 lata? subscariosse cito decidual ; cirrhi crassiusculi ut videtur sim- 

 plices. Mores 4-meri, in cymas parvas densas axillares breviter 

 pedunculatas dispositi, pedicellis brevibus puberulis ; calyx 

 truncatus fere obsoletus ; petala ovato-oblonga, circiter sesqui- 

 lineam longa, recurva, subpersistentia ; stamina parva (rudi- 

 mentaria in flores $ ?) ; discus obsoletus ; ovarium imperfecte 

 2-loculare, stigmate maximo, 4-lobato ; ovula in quoque loculo 

 2, geminata. Fructus deest. 



Kwangtung : Pakhoi {Flay fair !). Herb. Kew. 



13. Vitis papillata, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 226. 

 Hainan (Bullock ex Hance). 



14. Vitis planicatdis, Rook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5685 ; Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. i. p. 658 ? 



Vitis neurosa, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliv. 2, p. 204 ? 



Kwangtung: Lofaushan (Ford I). Herb. Kew. 



The typical plant inhabits the Sikkim and Khasia mountains, 

 and presents no obvious difference, so far as the material goes, 

 except more prominently reticulated veins on the under side of 

 the leaves. 



15. Vitis PiasezMi, Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xi. p. 207. 

 Shensi or Kansuh : Tsunglin range (Piasezki ex Maximowicz). 



16. Vitis repens, Wight et Am. Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 

 p. 125 ; Laws, in Rook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 646. 



Vitis cordata, Wall. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 54. 



Fohmosa: Tamsui (Oldham, 80!); Kwanotung: Lofaushan 

 (Ford !) ; Hongkong (Hance, 1948 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Common in India and extending to the Malay Archipelago. 



Lawson (loo. cit.) cites Eoxburgh's Oissus cordata under both 

 this species and C. glauca : it belongs to the latter. 



