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^^ Flowers paniculately cymose. ' 



wS' "^'/^'^o^^lada, r. (^ J. Prodr. 130; brandies and petioles covered 

 wim a dense subdeciduous tomentum, leaves cordate-ovate coriaceous, 

 nowers sessile and often almost bidden in tbe woolly tomentum, cymes 

 impact or woody, peduncle 3-12 in. bearing two-tbirds of the way a stout 

 woody simple tendril. V. indica, Thwaites Enum. QZ.—E}ieede H(yrt. Mai vii* 



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Westeen Peninsula ; Eheede, Wight; Ceylon, common up to 3000 ft. ■ 



CTew stout, hollow, cjUndnc, striate. Leaves 6-12 bj 3|-7 in., acute or sub- 



QuT^"^*?' coarsely dentate, the teeth terminated hy a hard obtuse point, at length 



), , Sl^^^ous above, nerves very prominent beneath. Cymes branching divaricately, 



^is distinct. Style 0. * FruU oblong, aBoiit the size of a grap^. 







6'f^'i '^' *^''*^*^» ^^^'^^ ^'?* ^^^*- '-^^^ -^'^^- ^'^^ C'ar^y, ii. 478 ; branches 

 petioles and peduncles covered with numerous long spreading glandular 



^pitate hairs, leaves cordate-ovate melnbranous, peduncle flattened 4-8 in. 



oearing a long forked slender tendril above its middle, cymes regularly 



paniculate as long as the peduncle. V. latifolia, Hb. Ham.; WaU. Cat. 



6994 1 G. V. lanata, Hb. Boxh, ; Wall Cat. 6995 c, d. 



Khas/a Mts., alt. 0-3000 ft, ; Assam, Silhet, Pegi), and TENASSEkM. 

 ^^raTzcJi^* stoutish, hollow, dark brown or nearly black. Leaves 8 in.-l ft. or more, 

 j^ondiy cordate-ovate, sinuate-dentate, sometimes sublobed, at length glabrous ^above, 

 P^iberulous or densely tomeatose "beneath. Flowers sessile in large laX ovate paniculate 

 cymes. Fruit the size of a large curranf, black, shortly pedicellate. Seed | by J in., 

 ^Ptic, the back flattish and shallowly grooved, the face rather sharply ridged, nearly 

 •ftiooth. — A very distinct species, known at once by the long spreading black hairs. 

 ^aiJich describes the flowers as being>cleftj but although they may be so sometimes 



18 certain that tliey ak-e generally peiitamerous. ■ 



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. 27. V. lanata, ^0x6. i^^.i^^. 1. 660; branches petioles and cymes 

 ^ofe or less pubescent or tomentose, leaves cordate-ovate shortly acuminate 

 "Membranous, peduncle feeafirig a simpte or forked tendril, petals cohering 



at the top. W.tk A. Prodr. 131 : WaU, Gat. 5995 a, b, e; Brand. For. 



*^- 99, V. cordifolia, Moth Nov.'Sp. 158, V. indica, Hb. Ham. ; Wall. 



\^t. 5994? E. V. Heyneana, DC Prodr. I 634 V. pentagona, lib. Uam. ; 



^aU. Cat. 6994 ? F. V. rugosa, Wall. Cat. 5994 a, b, c, emd d in part. 



J: Labrusca, Linn. var. y, Hegd. Conspect. Sp. Gen. 9. Cissus viti- 



fi"ea, £ioxb. Fl. Ind. i. 406 (note of Linnceus). Alima ?cristatum, WalL,Cat. 

 4994, >. » , , 



Tropicjil Himalaya, from Kashmir and Jamu, alt. 1-4000 ft. and Kcmaon, alt. 

 ^7000 ft'., to SiKKiM. alt. 1-5000 ft. ; Assam, the Khasia Mts., CHiTrAGo>o, Bibma, 



«»d the Cjrcars. . . - , . , ^ , n *r, 



,:^ A verj variable plant in the size shape and vestiture of the leaves, usnallj thev are 

 a-6 by 1 J_3 in., sometimes larger, and usually softly pubescent, but sometimes felted 

 ^neath, or nearly dabroas. Flowers small, green, formiug a thyrsoid paniculate cyme. 

 •«<«?« cohering at the apex rarely separating. Fruit the size of a large pea, round, 

 purple, 4.aeeded. Seed hhyh '"-. obtriangular, snbemarginate, rpunded and smooth on 

 the back with a small spathulate tubercle, face wedge-shaped with a shallow linear de- 

 Passion on each side of the ridge.-The following varieties may be distinguished : 

 - Vah. 1. rugosa: leaves ovate or cordate-ovate nearly 2 ft, cothed beneath with a 

 aense mattertomeMum; stems thicker than jp^ the tjpe with a dark deciduous lark.- 



Himalaya anil Tenasserim. ■ >; ^'.^l:.,,^,''^.^ ''A'- '^ ''■■::..*■ ,'..^1,' . ., . 



VAr. 2. glahti; ledfes almost quite glabrous ; stems more slender than m the type, 

 approaching V. pary j/b/iai --Garwhal and Khasia Mts. ' ' 



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