398 XLIII. AMPELIDE.E (BAKER). [?&*• 



flowers in each, the pedicels very short, pubescent. Calyx cyathiform, not 

 lobed, \ line broad. Petals 5, bright red, \ line long, ultimately spreading, 

 the expanded flower \ in. across. Stamens 5, half as long as the petals; 

 stigma sessile. Fruit globose, about \ in. broad, 2-celled, each cell 2-seeded. 



Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Peters! Zambesi-land, Tette, Shupanga; Moram- 

 balla! Dr. Kirk! 



A wide-climbing shrub with leaves of very woolly texture, the upper ones often nearly 

 entire, the lower ones deeply lobed, and eatable black berries about the size of a pea. In 

 habit and the cutting and clothing of the leaves, this agrees with the Indian V. Linnai, 

 Wall. 



28. V. platanifolia, Baker. Stem suberect, woody, stout, 2-4 ft. 

 high, webbed when young with white cottony tomentum. Bracts large, 

 membranous. Petioles 1-1 £ in. long, stout, erecto-patent, firm, webbed like 

 the branches. Leaves rotundate-cordate in general outline, 6-8 in. each way 

 when fully developed, the basal lobes not very deep, the upper part with 3 

 deltoid lobes which reach a quarter or halfway down or are sometimes 

 deeper and the middle one oblong-spathulate, the apex acute, the edge incon- 

 spicuously and irregularly inciso-dentate, texture firmly membranous, upper 

 surface thinly, lower densely matted all ovei with grey or slightly salmon- 

 coloured, cottony tomentum. Tendrils none. Flowers in dense, consi- 

 derably compound cymes on short woody peduncles ; pedicels very short. 

 Calyx and corolla as in V. her aelei folia. 



Iiower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Br. Welioitsch ! 



This may be a variety of V. Schimperiana with more deeply lobed leaves. 



29. V. heracleifolia, Welw. mss. Stems robust, suberect, woody, 

 finely grey-downy when young. Bracts large, oblong, membranous. Pe- 

 tioles 1-1| in. long, stout, firm, grey-downy. Leaves rotundate-cordate in 

 general outline, 4-6 in. each way, palmately 5-lobed to a depth varying from 

 a quarter to quite down to the 'base, the 3 central lobes oblong-spathulate, 

 the basal lobes shallow, the point blunt, the edge all round sharply, not 

 deeply inciso-dentate, texture firmly membranous, upper surface nearly or quite 

 glabrous when mature, lower matted all over with white, appressed, cottony 

 tomentum. Tendrils none in the specimens. Flowers in close, nearly simple, 

 dense cymes on peduncles under an inch long ; pedicels very short. Calyx 

 nearly a line broad, cyathiform, distinctly 5-lobed, webbed with grey cottony 

 tomentum. Buds globose, naked. Petals 5, crimson. Stamens 5. Style 

 obsolete. Fruit not seen. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 

 See remarks under V. dusecta. 



30. V. Leonensis, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 264 (Cissus). Stem wide- 

 climbing, stout but subherbaceous with a large hollow in the centre, terete, 

 finely striated, clothed with short grey down and fine, spreading, purp le 

 setae. Petioles 4-6 in. long, firm, clothed like the stem. Leaves rotundate- 

 cordate in general outline, 6-9 in. broad, 5-lobed from one- to two-thirds oi 

 the way down, the base deeply cordate, the terminal lobe broad-spathulatc, 

 the sinuses rounded but very narrow, the edge slightly denticulate, texture 

 membranous, upper surface slightly downy when voung, glabrous when ma- 



