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cuously and irregularly inoiso-dentate ; texture membranous, veins beneath 

 clothed with fine grey down. Tendrils weak, herbaceous. Flowers in co- 

 piously compound cymes 3 or 4 in. broad, on stont herbaceous peduncles 

 3-4 in. long ; pedicels 1 line long, clothed with glandular grey down. Calyx 

 j line broad, not lobed. Corolla 1 line deep. Petals and stamens 4. Berry 

 oblong-turbinate, glabrous, 4 lines long when dry, tipped with the subulate 

 style. 



Nile Land. Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! Abyssinia, Sehimper ! 



Var. 0. V. mollis, Stend. in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. Ill {Cissns). Leaves and stems more 

 downy and the pubescence with a ferruginous tinge ; pedicels longer. Abyssinia, Sehimper ! 



72. V. flavicans, Baker. Stem suberect, stout, firm-herbaceous, an- 

 gular, deeply striated, when young slightly grey-downy and setose, when ma- 

 ture glabrous. Petioles 4-6 in. long, angular, compressible, striated, clothed 

 with short, spreading, yellowish hairs and pellucid setae. Tendrils none in 

 °w specimens. Leaves digitate with 5 sessile leaflets, the terminal one ob- 

 tong-lanceolate, 6-10 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, the point acute, the edge 

 slightly inciso-crenate, the lower part narrowed gradually to a cuneate base, 

 ">e lateral ones similar, close but not imbricated, the lowest pair rounded 

 °n the outer side at the base ; texture firmly membranous, upper surface sca- 

 , r i Us ' * ower clothed, especially on the raised veins and veinlets, with fine, 

 s «ff, yellowish hairs. Flowers in copiously branched, short-stalked, lateral 

 CT mes, 6-8 in. broad ; pedicels \-% in. long, villose and densely setose. 

 la| vx cyathiform, not lobed, f-1 line broad, densely villose. Petals and 

 stamens 4. Style 4- in. long. Fruit crimson, turbinate, densely setose, i 

 ln - deep. 



"PPer Guinea. Niger country, Barter ! 



General habit of the preceding, but the leaves thicker in texture, the stems stronger, and 

 *"! glandular. 



7 J- V. curvipoda, Baker. Stems slender but quite woody, wide- 



Jtimbing, angular, naked, deeply sulcate. Petioles 1-5 in. long, firm, clothed 



gj fine, grey, deciduous pubescence. Tendrils firm, copious, glabrous. 



P*W with 5 leaflets, the terminal one obovate-oblong, 4-5 in. long, lf-2 



n - "oad, the point acute, the edge with a few shallow, broad, mucronate 



^nations, the base rounded or cuneate, the petiolule 1 in. long, clothed with 



sMlr grey P UDescenc e, the lateral ones similar but smaller and on shorter 



a . lk 3; texture membranous, both sides finely pubescent, especially on the 



e 'ns when young, nearly glabrous when mature. Flowers in a cymose 



Panicle 3-4 'in. broad. 'Peduncles 3-4 in. long, firm, downy ; pedicels 



P bne long, villose. Calyx under | line broad, villose, slightly lobed. 



jgffla longer than broad. Petals and stamens 4. Style nearly equal- 



ln g the corolla. Youmr fruit pendulous, turbinate, both downy and slightly 



setose. ° r 



U PPer Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, 2000 ft. above sea-level, Mann ! 



, U \ V. concinna, Baker. Stems terete, slender, quite woody, wide- 

 llml "ng, slightly matted when young with cottony tomentum, for the rest 



