fiiis.] Lxiii. AMPELiDE^, (M. A. Lawson.) 649 



|w 62. _C. riparia; Wall. Cat. 6038. C. vitiginea, Linn. Sp. PI. 117 ; 

 Jjt. Prodr. I. 621 \iwt of Eoxbargh). 



North Western Himalaya; Garwhal, F(dconer, &c. Assam, Silhet, and 



EASTERN Bengal ; Western Peninsula, from the Coacan southwards. Ceylon, not 

 nncommon. ' 



Branches coarse trailing or creeping. Stems and older branclies with wrinkled bark. 

 ^mes slenrler, peduncle 2-5 in. bearing 3-5 rajs or branching subcoiymbosely with . 



•fK T^^^ ^^^"^ately umbellate. Bracts and bracteoles densely woolly. Fruit tipped \- 

 jnth the persistent style. Seed pyriform, smoothish.— Very variable ; the more succu- '^^ 

 lent and glabrous fo ' ~ ~ 



^om V. adnata, to which indeed it is very closely allied. "Under V.paniculata, Wall. 

 Jjat. 6022, are two species, the one with simple leaves probably belongs to V, repanda, 

 tae other with 5-foIiolate leaves and labelled (7. pentaphylla f Hb. Madras, belongs to 





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17. V. adnata, Wall. Cat, 5998 ; stems leaves and inflorescence clothed 

 ^th a rust-coloured pubescence, leaves 4-8 by 2-4 in. cordate-ovate acute 

 or shortly acuminate bristly-serrate, tendrils forked, cymes smaller more 

 compact and less woolly than^in V. repanda^ bracteoles very small caducous, 

 petals distinct, fruit about the size of a pea. Brand. For, Fl 100. V, repens, 

 ]^l Cat 5999 *. Ossus adnata, Roxh. FL Ind, i. 405 : DC Prodr. L 627 ; 

 \^^M Ic. t. 144 ] Thwaites Enum. 62 ; Cat Bomb. PI. 32 ; Dah. ^ Gibs, 

 ^ond). Fl. 39. C. cordata, WaU. Cat. 6001. C. Kleinii, Wall. Cat. 6008 in 

 P^^l^ G latif olia, Va/U Symb. iii. 1 8. 



Hotter parts of India, from the Western Himalayas in Garwhal to Assai^ 

 oJLHET, Bengal, Tenasserim, and Penang. Western Peninsula and Ceylon.—^ 



^iSTRiB. Java, Borneo, Philippine Islds. 

 •A. slender far-climbing plant, with ro 



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round woodv branches. Leaves becoming: more 



iess glabrous above, always pubescent beneath, sometimes even densely felted with 

 , *port soft tomentum, membranous. Tendrils woody. Fruit black, smooth. Seed 



Xn in., pyriform, smooth. 



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18. V, spectabllls, Kurz tn Trimen Journ. Bot. 1874, 196; a lofty 

 scaudent ferruginously hirsute shrub, leaves almost sessile broadly cordate 

 ^otuse obsoletely 3-5-Iobed sinuate-cordate, at the base denticulate thick 

 'Membranous scabrous above. 



,^KKiM Himalaya ; damp forests near Khersiong, alt. 5-6000 ft., Kurz. 

 flowers very small, on slender pedicels ^^\ in. Cymes pedunculate, trichotomous 

 ^rli in. Calyx truncate, scarcely ^ in. Styh ^V i^., truncate^ Berry (immatm^) 

 ^wvate.— According to Kurz this has the habit and affinity of V, Linmei, but widely 

 ^ QJtters by the indumentum and almost sessile leaves.— 1 have not seen this species. 



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broad 



„ , Prodr. 126. Cissus angulata, Lamk. Diet. Suj)p. 

 ^^^r. i. 629 ; Thwaites Enum. 62. 



^^TEBN Peninsula ; from the Concan southwards, and Ceylon; , 



flL J ^^*J ^^aves subfleshy. Branches cylindrio or very obtusely anded. C)/mea 

 r^^?^r^ about as long '^ the leaves. Flowers small. Fniit oblong, bluish, prumose ; 

 ^loela recurved. -^^^od as in V. renaJidal—XVerf dhtiuct species, of which the 

 vaonynjy i^^g ]^^^ ^^^^^ confused. I have foUowed Wallich in caUing it F. Lmnm. 



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f^5-angled or lobed slightly cordate or retusely-truncate at the base ^^ 

 ^rselyand irresrularlv serrate, tendrils simple, petals distinct, frmtiin. % 



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