Vttu -1 XLIII. AMPELIDE.E (BAKER). 399 



ture, the lower matted all over with fine greyish or salmon-coloured, cottony 

 tomentum. Tendrils long, firm, woody, branched. Flowers in densely com- 

 pound subcymose or paniculate lateral clusters, 2-4 in. broad ; peduncles \- 

 1? m. long, spreading, firm, villose like the stem. Pedicels very short, vil- 

 jose. Calyx cyathiform, not lobed, | line broad. Petals 5, scarlet, spread- 

 ing, the expanded flower 2 lines across. Stamens 5. Ovary pentagonal, 

 the stigma sessile. Berries subglobose, f in. long, red, naked. * 



i T pp f r Ghimea- Sierra Leone, Vogel! Dr. Welvcitsch ! Niger country, Nupe, Barter! 

 tanks of the Bagroo river, Mann! 



A large climber with eatable fruit. 



A ~*' "• bombycina, Baker. Stem wide-climbing, weak, herbaceous, 

 «ie young shoots densely clothed with pale, reddish-brown, silky tomentum. 



etioles 1-3 in. long, spreading, slender, clothed like the shoots. Leaves 



rotundate-cordate in general outline, 4-6 in. broad each way, the base broadly 



■ rounded, the blade 3-5-lobed two-thirds of the way down, the sinuses 



ro unded, the terminal lobe spathulate entire, the edge distinctly not deeply 



enticulate, texture thinly herbaceous, upper surface green, glabrous in the 

 mature plant, lower matted all over with fine whitish pubescence which in 

 ,«e young leaves is very dense and has a tinge of salmon-colour. Flowers 

 ■ compound lateral cymes. Peduncles spreading, £-1^ in. long, firm, 

 densely villose. Clusters dense ; pedicels very short. Calyx cyathiform, 



'untly 5-lobed, | line across. Petals 5, deep red, £ line long. Stamens 5. 



Ta *y pentagonal, prominent, the stigma sessile. 

 Pper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Barter ! 

 V 7 ,r ide " climbi »g plant, scarcely shrubby, with eatable fruit. It agrees with the Japanese 

 „,,';. v» ffii > S - and z -> ^ the clothing and shape of the leaves, but the inflorescence is 

 Suite different. 



32. V. quadrangularis Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 628. Stem thick, wide- 

 eimbirig, herbaceous, quadrangular, constricted at the nodes, the angles 

 m ged, naked or slightly downy except that the wings when young are 

 *°roetimes furnished with short, rijnd, purple cilia. Petioles |-1£ in. long, 

 "eculent, glabrous. Leaves varying from ovate and entire to cordate and 

 , ee n 3 - lo »ed, the terminal lobe triangular or subspathulate, sometimes 

 'ghtly lobed again, the sinuses rounded and open, the lateral lobes broadly 



funded on the lower side, all distantly but rather sharply denticulate, tex- 

 j^. me mbranous, both sides green and glabrous or nearly so. Flowers in 

 •ghtly compound lateral cymes. Peduncles |-1 in. long, spreading, her- 



cvnS 8 ' S^brous; pedicels |-£ in. long, herbaceous, glabrous. Calyx 

 Jathiform, 1 line broad, green, not lobed. Petals 4, greenish. Stamens 

 ' th e filaments very short. Perries subglobose, ^-f in. each way, red 



J*a mature, 1-seeded. Style subulate.— Wight, Ic. i. t. 51 ; Guill. et 



[ e ""- Fl. Seneg. i. 133. C. tetraptera, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 263. C. in- 

 Mra a nd C. bifida, Schum. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 81. 

 "Pper Guinea. Seneganibia, Perrottet! Niger country, Barter! Curror ! 



<SX Land * Nnbia ' Sehumnfurth! Abyssinia, Dillon and Petit! Speke and 



0Wer Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitseh I 



