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 wect shrubs destitute of tendrils. Petals and stamens connate 

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Sarmentose sLrabs, climbing, usually by means of leaf-opposed tendrils, 

 ^ely rooting. Leaves simple or 3-9-foliolate and then digitate or pedate,' 

 ^ely pinnate or bipinnate. Flowers umbellately- paniculately- racemosely- 

 f*r spicately-cymose, usually ebracteate, sometimes polygamous. " Calvx, 

 ™rt, entire, or 4-5-toothed or -lobed. Petals 4-5, free or cohering at; the 

 ?*6x. Stameiis 4-5, inserted below the margins of the disk ; anthers free.^ 

 vvary 2- very rarely 3-4-celled ; style or short ; ovules 2 in each cell 

 ^?;y ovoid or globose, 1-2-celled; cells 1-2-seeded.— Distrib. About 230 

 9^cies growing mostly in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, Africa and 

 raynesia, more rarely in America. 



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1. V. quadrang-ularis, Wall. Gat. 5992 ; stems 4- winged very thick 

 Deahy greatly contracted at the nodes. W. & A . Prodr. 1 25 ; Wigkt Ic. 

 \f-;, Brand. For. Fl. lOO. Cissus edulis, Dalz. in Hook Lond. Joum. 

 ^'^ "'" ^ - ' ' -■• -^ ' Fl.iO; Thwaites Enum. 62. C. quad- 

 « ^,— ..», j^uu,. a«u/«. o» ; Jii'^^u. Fl. Ind. I 407 ; DC. Prodr. I 628 ; 

 Y^' Cat. Bomb. PL 33 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 39. Saelanthus qua- 

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^Throughout the hotter parts of India, from ' !he' foof ' 'o*f Jbe Westeen Himalayas In 

 nmaon to Ceylon and Malacca.— Distrib. Java, East Africa.' ': , 



C^ glabrous, often of a great length, sometimes nearlj leafless. Leaves 1-1* in., 

 7^7 cordate or reniform or S-o-lobed, crenate-serrate, dabrous.. jCyme* small, 

 *»"ly peduncled, glabrous. Stuh conspicuous, slender, stigma smaH. Berry globose, 

 r^. succulent, the size of a pea, veiy acrid.— The stems are frequently eaten by the 



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Plyptocarpa, Thwaites Enum. 62 (assus) ; branches slender 4- 

 -"sea leaves 2-3 by 1-lf in. truncate-cordate acummate glabrous above, 



^KriioN ; hot jrier parts of the IMand, TAMJajYe*. ' ii „ 



fh^^ei serrate ; petiole |- 1 i i n. Cymes 3-5-rayed, longer than the petioles , glabrous. 

 ,>»•«. small, rutescent. Petals acute, reflexed. StyU con8|>icuou8. Fru^i 4 in., 

 ^''"g, 1-seeded, blackish-purpIe. - ; ': ' 7 



jj; .y . sagrlttlfolla, Laws. ; very glaucous, stems 4-angled or -winged 

 ^'^ "ot contracted at the joints, leaves cordate-sagittate peltate._ V. 



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