$*•] XLII1. AMPELIDE.E (BAKER). 407 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch I 



Resembles the preceding in general habit ; best distinguished by its woolly fruit and curi- 

 «u bracts. 



53. V. pendula, Welw. mss. Stem herbaceous, moderately stout, 

 brownish, much striated, not pubescent, densely clothed with long, spreading 

 or deflexed, weak, gland-tipped bristles, the same colour as the stem. Stipules 

 ■arge, ovate-acuminate, membranous. Petioles 2-3 in. long, weak, herbace- 

 ous, bristly like the branches. Leaves with 5 sessile, obovate-lanceolate leaf- 

 m, the central one 3-5 in. long, l|-2 in. broad, the point acute, the base 

 Mneate, the edge deeply inciso-dentate, texture thin but fleshy, upper surface 

 onght green, glabrous, lower permanently clothed all over with fine, short, 

 nearly white, cottony tomentum. Tendrils copious, herbaceous, bristly like 

 ! Drar >ches. Flowers in copiously compound cymes, 4-6 in. broad, on 

 bristly herbaceous peduncles, 3-4 in. long. Clusters with scarious, brown, 

 lanceolate bracts, which exceed them. Pedicels generally about 1 line long, 

 slender, setose. Calyx not more than 1 line broad, pubescent and very 

 setose. Petals and stamens 4. Style subulate. Berries about 4 lines long, 

 [oundish-pyriforrn, pendulous, red, copiously clothed with gland-tipped 

 "ratles like the rest of the plant, 

 tower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch I 

 A Tery distinct species. 



51 v. Thonningii, Baker. Stems firm-herbaceous, slender, terete, 



nely grey-downy and glandular when young. Petioles 1-3 in. long, firm- 



fWaceous and clothed like the branches. Leaflets 5, distinctly stalked, the 



graanal one obovate-oblong, 2-4 in. long by about half as broad, the point 



untish, the base cuneate, the edge irregularly crenate-repand, texture fleshy 

 • n ot very thick, upper surface glabrous, lower slightly grey-downy. Flowers 

 "copiously branched lax cymesf4-6 in. broad, on firm herbaceous peduncles, 

 Cal l " i l0 - ng * Clusters without bracts. Pedicels 1 line long, grey-downy. 

 ili 1*1 * lme broat *> grey-downy, subentire. Corolla 1 line deep, constricted, 

 o rpy downy. Petals and stamens 4. Style subulate. Berries roundish- 



l0n g, pendulous, 4-5 lines long, densely clothed with grey down.— Cissus 

 1**, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 82 ; Hook. f. PI. Nigrit. 268. 



Pper Guinea. Guinea proper, Thonning ; Nupe, Barter! Accra, T. Vogell 

 *er Guinea. Loanda and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 

 %£** °l P r - Welwitsch's specimens have the leaves opposite about the middle of the stem. 



m ot) liged to drop the name cymosa, because there is already a V. cymosa of Blume. 



ta! D ' V * c ypkopetala, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 282 (Cissus). Stem 



W Ce ° US ' ail & ular > finely grey-downy, finely striated. Petioles about 2 in. 



j5> weak, herbaceous, finely tomentose. Tendrils copious, herbaceous. 



av es with 3-5 leaflets, the terminal one on a stalk i in. long, obovate- 



"J, 2-3 in. long, 1-1± in. broad, indistinctly pointed, the edge broadly 



bnW i ebase r °unded, the lateral ones similar, usually considerably lm- 



the 1 ' tCXtnre thin but rather succulent, upper side slightly grey-downy 



rVd i r more so - Plowers in copiously compound cymes 3-5 in. broad. 



CH n 2 ~ 3 in - W. weak, glabrous. Pedicels weak, tomentose, 2-3 lines 



* c «-»lyx under -| line broad, pubescent, not lobed. Corolla 2 lines long, 



