**fc] XLIII. AMPELIDE.E (BAKER). 395 



Petioles 2-3 in. long, firm, glabrous, pulverulent like the branches. Leaves 

 rotundate-cordate, 4-6 in. across each way, the basal lobes 1 in. or more 

 deep, the point cuspidate, the edge faintly 'ciliato-denticulate, texture firmly 

 membranous ; upper surface, when mature, glabrous, lower densely coated all 

 over with short greyish-brown tomentum. Flowers in copiously compound 

 cymes on firm woody peduncles, 2-3 in. long. Clusters 6-8-flowered, the 

 pedicels firm, 3-4 lines long, slightly downy when young. Calyx £ line 

 broad, not lobed, brown, scarious, downy. Buds ovoid, downy, under 1 

 line long. Petals and stamens 4, the former cohering. Style subulate. Im- 

 mature fruit ovoid, naked. 



Lower Guinea. Golmigo Alto and Cazengo, Angola, Dr. Wdwitsch ! 



i | 7*' "•.Srisea, Baker. Stems wide-climbing, woody, striated, densely 

 | clothed with short grey pubescence. Petioles $-1 in. long, firm, villose. 

 J ^'es rotundate-cordate, 4-6 in. across each way, the basal lobes rounded, 

 4-4 in. deep, the broadest part of the leaf two-thirds of the distance from the 

 pomt to the base, the point acute, the edge conspicuously ciliato-denticulate 

 with spreading teeth, texture flaccid, membranous ; upper surface dull green, 

 naked, lower covered all over, especially on the veins, with short, stiff, spread- 

 ln g hairs. Tendrils none in our specimens. Flowers in slightly com- 

 pound lateral cymes. Peduncles 1 in. or more long, firm, villose. Pedicels 

 H m. long, villose. Calyx cyathiform, not lobed, 1 line broad. Fruit fleshy, 

 obovoid, \ in. deep by rather less broad, densely shaggy, with thick soft hairs, 

 containing only one large bony seed. 

 fcozamb. Distr. Banks of the Shire, Zambesi-land, Dr. Kirk I 



*0. V. Schhnperiana, Hochst. ; Rich. FL Abyss, i. 112. Stem strong, 

 °ody, terete, sarmentose, matted with cottony tomentum when young. Pe- 



, . 2 ~ 6 in. long, matted and sometimes furnished with purple, gland-tipped 

 airs . Leaves rotundate-cordate, attaining a breadth of 12 or 15 in., the 



JJJU ,obe » broadly rounded, sometimes 2 in. deep, the upper part with 3 

 nallow deltoid lobes, the edge all round with irregular, shallow, deltoid teeth ; 



«ture membranous, the upper surface slightly downy when young, glabrous 

 , u mature, the lower thinly matted with greyish or slightly salmon- 

 'oured, cottony tomentum. Flowers in short-stalked, dense, cymose or 

 ysoid clusters. Pedicels very short. Calyx a line broad, scarious, gla- 

 ° Us > distinctly 5 -lobed. Buds roundish, naked. Petals 5, bright red. Sta- 

 ens 5. Stigma peltate, sessile. Fruit oblong, watery, edible, £-§ in. long. 



Ha^T Guinea - Ni ger country, Loin and Yomba, Barter I 

 t ' Lan d. Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 

 ower Guinea. Angola, Dr. WelwiUch ! 

 grai°ft allied to the E - Indian v - rugosa, Wallich. " Fruit like that of the Frontignac 

 i*» Barter. It has the largest leaves of any of the tropical African species. 



rob 21 ; V - ipomceifolia, Webb, Frag. Fl. JEthiop. 57 (Cissus). Stem 

 cor? Sarraent °se J striated, floccose-tomentose. Leaves long-stalked, large, 

 facp / a ° Ute ' the ed S e siuu ated with short, thick, acute teeth, upper sur- 

 in 1 S ? ' Iower villose-araneose. Tendrils none in the specimens. Flowers 

 a , eat -°PPosed, stalked, white, woolly cymes. Flowers crowded, ovate, sub- 

 Ule > y ery shortly stalked. Calyx short, thin, scarious, villose, with 4 cram- 



