**] XLIII. AMPELIDE.E (BAKEK). 415 



cottony tomentum. Tendrils in the specimens. Flowers in congested 

 (pass not more than 1 in. broad, on firm, woody, slightly matted peduncles 

 about 1 in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx 1 line broad, deeply cyathi- 

 form, brown, scarious, not lobed. Buds 'globose, naked. Stamens and 

 petals 5, the latter crimson. Style 0. Fruit not seen. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 

 In everything except the leaves this resembles V. heracleifolia, and it is not unlikely 

 ioej may be two forms of one species. . 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



78- V. Pigariana, Webb, Frag. Fl. Mhvap. 58 (Cissus). Stem short, 

 e rect, the whole plant clothed with hairs and purplish setae. Leaves sessile 

 •Hfa 5-7 leaflets (shape not stated). Flowers in terminal cymes. Ovary 

 glabrous. Style short. Calyx and purplish corolla setose like the rest of 

 tbe plant. J r r 



*Ue Land. Nubia, Figari. 



2. LEEA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 388. 



t lw X c y atmform > deeply 5-lobed. Petals 5, partially connate with the 

 Me of stamens, at first cohering by their edges, finally recurved. Stamens 

 > 'he filaments connected by a tube which is more than half as long as the 



it r ° n ^ le antners b^ over its edge and united together in a ring inside 



* Ovary 5-6-ceIled. Style short. Fruit a depressed, diy, 5-6-celled 

 ^ with 1 seed in each cell. — Shrubs with opposite pinnate or rarely 2- 



Pmnate leaves. 



small genus almost confined to tropical Asia. 



„ ro JJa \ in. deep . . 1. X. sambucina. 



M>roUa i in. deep ...'.[. '. 2. X. tincloria. 



, J !•• sambucina, Willd.; DC. Prod. i. 635. A suberect woody 

 jT aDo . ut 8 ft. high, without tendrils. Branches woody, terete, naked. 

 8 j? ves ^th a terminal leaflet and 1-4 shortly stalked similar ones on each 

 C'l°V arel * V 2 "P innat e below; leaflets elliptical, 4-8 in. long, 2-3 in. 

 m i i apeX P ointed » the ed S e distantly and not deeply toothed, the base 

 pio 1 texture firmly membranous, both sides glabrous. Flowers in a co- 

 L £ branched sess'ile or pedunculated cyme with tomentose or naked 

 Hi ' Calvx cyathiform, green, villose, with 5 teeth which are about as 

 side 8 n deep * Corolla oblong, £ in. deep, glabrous, bright red on the out- 

 , . yellow within or entirely orange. Petals 5. Corona more than half as 

 tooth !? the corolla > connate with it below, free upwards, the edge faintly 

 | °! d » tn e filaments equalling it and the anthers joined edge to edge inside 

 broad 63 llard ' naked > depresso-globose, 5-6-seeded, 5-6-sulcate, }-$ in. 

 712 hum - et Thonn - H. Guin. 134. L. guineensis, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 



00 Uecto Cr < J 1xine& - Fernando Po, Sierra Leone, and the Niger country, gathered by all 

 w - " One of the greatest ornaments of the forest." 



