*3fc] XLIII. AMPELIDEiE (BAKER). 397 



Stamens 4. Style subulate. Fruit turbinate, naked, £ in. deep, black when 

 ripe.— Fl. Nigrit. 261. Cissus rufescens, Guill. et Perr. FI. Seneg. 133. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Perrottet ! Skues ! Niger country, Barter! 

 Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Morson ! Bon ! etc. 



Layiug the original specimens of the plants of Afzelius and the " Flora of Senegambia," 

 which are both in the British Museum herbarium, side by side, we have no hesitation in 

 uniting the two. 



25. V. abyssinica, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 112. Stems wide- 

 climbing, woody, naked. Petioles glabrous, 3-4 in. long. Leaves rotundato- 

 cordate in general outline, 6-9 in. each way, 3-lobed in the upper part about 

 a quarter of the way down to the base, the central lobe deltoid, the base 

 deeply cordate, the edge not more than ciliate-denticulate, texture thinly mem- 

 branous, both sides quite naked. Flowers in copious thyrsoid panicles on 

 short firm peduncles ; pedicels glabrous, very short. Calyx glabrous, cya- 

 tlnform, loose, under ^ line broad. Unexpanded corolla subglobose. Pe- 

 ■■ 5, green, glabrous, \ line long. Stamens 5, with short filaments. 

 Ovary globose with a sessile stigma. Fruit not seen. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Schwehfurth ! Abyssinia, Schimper ! 

 e r .v near V. vinifera, but flowers globose and leaves very large, thin, quite glabrous, 

 4-lobed only in the upper third and edge only ciliate-denticulate. 



26. V. palmatifida, Baker. Stem suberect, woody, terete, finely 

 striated, villose when young, glabrous when mature. Petioles 1-2 in. long, 

 "rm, villose. Leaves * 2-4 in. each way, 3-5-lobed, the base truncate or 

 slightly cordate, often cut two-thirds or three-quarters of the way down 



. m the edge to the apex of the petiole and terminal lobe especially deeply 

 Piiinatifid with oblong segments and broad rounded sinuses, the edge slightly 

 P"te-denticulate, texture thickly membranous, upper surface green, 

 ™«y villose, the lower densely matted all over with fine grey pubescence, 

 tendrils few, firm. Flowers in more or less compound lateral cymes. Pe- 

 duncles 1-2 in. long, firm, villose. Clusters 6-12-flowered ; pedicels \~\ in. 

 on g, pubescent. Calyx cyathiform, not lobed, \ line broad. Petals 4, } 



, lon g, glandulose-pubescent, cohering at the tip. Stamens 4. Ovary 

 globose ; the style subulate. Fruit subglobose, \ in. each way. 



t)!^ PPer ° ninea - Nicer country, Nupe, Barter ! and either the same or a closely allied 

 ■••m gathered by Dr. Wefwitsch in Angola. 



s °t>erect shrub, about 6 ft. in height, with eatable fruit like black currants. 



27. V. mossambicensis Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 180. 

 2* w ide-climbing, woodv, slender, subterete, the young shoots densely 

 Pubescent. Petioles of the upper leaves 1-2 in. long, firm, densely pubes- 

 5t Leaves rotundate-cordate, 2-6 in. each way, varying from nearly 



tlr e to deeply 3- or 5-lobed, the base broadly and deeply rounded, the ter- 

 2* ob e spathulate with broad rounded sinuses on each side of it, the 

 JIJ all round furnished with irregular, spreading, shallow, triangular, mu- 

 J° n Jte teeth, texture coriaceous, both surfaces densely clothed with grey 



<*% tomentum when young but the upper becoming nearly glabrous in the 

 mature pl ant . Tendri j s f fim< Flower9 in densely compound lateral 

 c J m< *; peduncles \-\ in. long, spreading, firm. Clusters dense, with 12-20 



