393 



™*3 XLHI. AMPELIDEiE (BAKER). 



Flowers in copiously compound cvmes ultimately 4-6 in. broad, on firm 

 spreading peduncles, 2-3 in. long. " Flowers 6-12* in an umbel, the pedicels 

 ; at first a little downy, ultimately } in. -long. Calyx cyatbiform, not lobed, 

 gabrous or nearly so, £ line broad. Buds ovoid, naked, under a line deep. 

 Stamens and petals 4, the latter pale, with a red tinge. Style subulate, un- 

 developed j fruit oblong-lanceolate, naked. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, T. Vogel I banks of the Niger, at Eppah, Barter ! 

 tamaroons mountain, Mann I 



, /*• ,"• Welwitschii, Baker. A wide-climbing shrub, with copiously 

 branched, naked, woody steins. Petioles 2-3 in. long, naked, slender, 

 waves broadly ovate-cordate, 4-5 in. long, 3-3£ in. broad, the apex acute, 

 e edge denticulate, both sides glabrous, texture succulent and consider- 

 y fleshy, colour light green when recent. Flowers in slightly compound 

 vines of about 6 flowers each, on short woody leaf-opposed peduncles, 

 j terui rils seen. Pedicels naked, |-f in. long ultimately. Calyx cyathi- 

 <j"n, naked, subentire. Petals and stamens not seen. Fruit globose, naked, 

 3 witt half an inch long when dry, green when unripe, then reddish, edible. 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Closely allied to V. pallida, but more woody and scaudent and the leaves different in 



1 -jj- V. pallida, W%gM and Am. Prod. II. hid. i. 12 5 . Stem stout, almost 

 ff °ody, naked, finely striated, trailing or slightly climbing. Stipules ovate, 

 scanose, deciduous. Petioles 2-3 in. long, slightly downy when young, 



akea when mature. Leaves rotundate-cordate, 4-8 in. each way, the basal 

 ooes rounded, i-f- in. deep, with an open sinus, the point bluntish or cus- 

 P ,( tote, the edge faintly and distantly denticulate, texture papyraceous or 



erabranous, both sides quite glabrous when mature. No tendrils seen. 



lowers in slightly compound, 6-12-flowered, leaf-opposed cymes, on short 



oody peduncles. Ultimate pedicels \ in. long in fruit. Calyx cyathiform, 

 Serous, entire. Petals and stamens 4, the former short, nearly white, 



nering. p n ,i t obovate, under ± in. long, naked, slightly pointed.— Cum* 



iff* 1 * GuilL et perr - F1 - Seue g- 134 - Cissus p e t iolata > A - Rich - F1 - Kh y &s - 



w °9; Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 262. 



PPer Guinea. Senegambia, Leprievr! Ferrottet ! Niger country, T. Vogel! 

 Nil" 6 ? Guinea - Pmigo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitschl 



e **and. Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! mountains of Abyssinia, Schimper ! Dillon ! 



J common Asiatic species, 

 pound , gatnered hy Barter at Nupe may be the same, but the inflorescence is more com- 

 > and the fruit considerably larger (the size of a Muscat grape). 



J J- V. nymphaeifolia Welv. mss. Stems 3-4 ft. high, stout, sub- 

 cloth JP^^y branched, woody below, almost herbaceous upwards, densely 

 Ion * When y° lln g. with sll0rt brown pubescence. Petioles lf-2 in. 



n g> firm, suberect. clothed like the young stems. Leaves rotundate-cor- 



in ,' measuring 6-8 in. each way when fully mature, the basal lobes 1-2 



riH . ?' With a narrow s » ,l » s > t,,e ed S e slightly repand and finely but sharply 



"ato-deuticulate, texture membranous, both sides pale green, thinly matted 



