408 XLIII. AMPEL1DE.E (BAKER). \VtiU. 



cylindrical, pubescent. Petals and stamens 4. Style subulate, \ in. long. 

 Berry unknown. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! (Abyssinian name " Halenke tetnen ") ; Unyoro 

 plateaux, Speke and Grant I 



56. V. pruriens, Welw. mss. Stems stout, herbaceous, wide-climbing, 

 finely striated, finely clothed throughout with short grey hairs tipped with 

 brownish glands. Stipules lanceolate, 1 in. or more long, scarious, glandular. 

 Lower petioles 4-6 in. long, like the stem in texture and glandulosity. 

 Leaflets 5, the three upper ones on petiolules 1^-lf in. long, rotundate-cor- 

 date, 2-3 in. broad by rather more deep, the basal lobes broadly rounded, 

 the point acute, the edge with sharp subdeltoid teeth, the lower pair smaller 

 and the stalks much shorter, texture considerably fleshy, both sides pale green 

 and glandular all over like the stems, especially on the veins beneath. Flowers 

 in lax copiously compound cymes, ultimately 6-9 in. broad, on glandular 

 herbaceous peduncles 3-4 in. long. Ultimate pedicels l|-2 lines long, very 

 glandular. Calyx cyathiform, entire, £ line broad. Petals and stamens 4, 

 the former oblong, blood-red, soon spreading, 1 line long, glandular on^tue 

 outside. Style subulate, equalling the stamens. Berry oblong, watery, » i n - 

 long when mature, red, densely glandular like the rest of the plant. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



57. V. stipulacea, Baker. Stem stout, angular, herbaceous, weak, 

 densely clothed, when young, with spreading, grey, woolly hairs, some o 

 them gland-tipped. Petioles 4-6 in. long, stout, herbaceous and woolly like 

 the branches. Leaflets 5, subsessile, lanceolate-obovate, the central one 5- 

 in. long by half as broad, the point acute, the base cuneate, the edge irregu- 

 larly and sharply inciso-dentate, texture rather fleshy and moderately tbics, 

 upper surface glabrous when mature, lower finely grey-downy. Stipules cor- 

 date-ovate, membranous, downy, subpersistent, |-f in. long. Flowers M laX 

 copiously compound cymes ultimately 6-8 in. broad, on herbaceous peduncles 

 4-6 in. long. Pedicels 1-3 lines "long, weak, glandular and grey-downy. 

 Calyx I line broad, not lobed. Corolla 1 line deep. Petals and stamens 4. 

 Style subulate. Berries oblong, 4 lines long when dried, red, finely g**f" 

 downy and glandular. 



Lower Guinea. Ambaca, Cazengo, and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Weltcdsch ■ 

 In general habit and inflorescence resembling V. serpens and mollis, but the leaves are 

 fleshy, and calyx, corolla, and fruit glandular. 



68. V. stenoloba, Welw. mss. Stems erect or suberect, 1-2 ftl . on? I 

 stout, herbaceous, finely striated, finely grey- downy and glandular, w'j' 10 " 

 tendrils. Stipules broadly cordate-ovate, fleshy, £-f in. deep. Petioles 

 or very short, the leaves digitately 3- or 5-foliolate, the leaflets quite sessile, 

 linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 4-7 in. long, £-1 in. broad, the point acute, 

 the edge distantly and irregularly faintly inciso-dentate, the base narrow* 

 into a winged petiole, texture considerably fleshy, both sides thinly grey- ■ ° 

 brownish-downy and glandular. Flowers'in compound cymes not more tna 

 l|-2 in. broad, on terminal, finely downy and glandular, herbaceous peduncles, 

 2-3 in. long. Ultimate pedicels about 1 line long, downy and glandul3 • 



