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ntis.] xLiii. AMPELiDE^. (M, A. Lawson.) '65B 



North Western Himalaya; from Kashmir to Nipal, alt. 3-6000 ft.; 'EAsikaN 

 15£NGAL, Roxburgh.— BiSTRiB. Malay Archipelago, China, Japan. • ^ 



. ^tems sohd, trailing, slender. Leaves ovate, acute, hase truncate or cordate, sharply 

 ana deeply serrate, often 34obed. Tendrils branched. Flowers in erect racemes 1 in. 

 mg jytals cohering. Sti/le very short. Fruit globose, black, the size of a pea. 

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. p- Y* indica, Linn., Sp. PL 202 ; branches leaves and peduncles covered 

 with a dense woolly tomentum, leaves 4-10 in. coriaceous, flowers greenish- 

 W T?^^^^y sessile, style 0. Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 660; If. d; A. Frodr. 131 : 

 -J^C. Prodr. i 634; GraK Cat. Bomb. PL 33; WaU. Cat. 5993. Vitis 

 r^gosa,^ WalL Cat 5994 in part; Brand. F(yr. FL 100. Blieede Uort. 

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Western Peninsula ; from the Concan southwards. 

 ca5 slender, permanently woolly. Jjeaves at length glabrous and shiMDg above, 



mate-ovate, acute, denticulate-serrate, tbe points of the serratures hard almost spiny. 



eaundes stoutish, bearing a tong simple tendril. Flowers in short cylindric spikes 



bout 2 in. Petals distinct? Fruit globose, the size of a large currant, 2-4-seeded. 



oeeof I by I in., elliptic, slightly curved on the back from end to end, otherwise flattish, 



ith a spathulate tubercle, the face wedge-shaped. — Very closely allied to V. eriodada 



5?^6ral appearance. In some specimens the flowers are 4-merous, V. indica, Miq^. 

 * J. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 609, and of Thwaites, are quite distinct. 



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- TTtTt Flowers in short racemose spikes at the end of long JUif arm tendrils 



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34. V. grracUlSy Wall in Boxb. FL Lid. ed. Carey, ii. 477 ; Cat. 6007. 



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-oranches exceedingly slender, almost filiform, pnhescent. Leaves ^5 hj 2-2 i in., 

 ^ordate, caudate-acuminate, sharply serrate, hispidly hirsute above both on the nerves 

 *,^d on the intercostal spaces, beneath on the nerves only. Tendrils short, very slender, 

 *i^ple.^ Flowers? Fruit (immature?) oblong, oblique, I-4-seeded, sessile. Seeds 

 i^Ji in., oblong-triangular, rounded on the back, the face flattened. — Not unlike some 

 lonns of V, lanata, but diflering in the natui% bf the pubescence and in the character of 

 ^e mflorescence. . ' "" 





Sect. H. Leaves 3-f oliolate. {See V. dubia, V. Hookeri, V. lanceolaria; 

 *• Pedata, V. tuberculata, and V. sulcata.) 



, Petals and Stamens 4. 



T Stems and leaves usvxilly fleshy. 



5 35. V. Bheedel, W. <Sc A. Prodr. 127; whole plants quite glabrous, 

 ^tiole 2-3 in. V. heterophylla, Wall. Gat. 6036. Cissus lieterophyUa, 

 ^%*. Madr., Wall Cat. 6036 {not of Poiret). C. trUobata, Lamk.pv^.x. 31 ; 

 ^' Prodr. i. 629; Thwaites Enum. 62; Gra/uim Cat. Bomb. Jfl. 33; 

 mz. d: Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Zd.—Ph^ede Hart. Mai. vu. t 45. 



^ESTERN Peninsula : Malabar and Travancor. Ceylon, common. ', ' , , 

 «'ewjs thick and weak. 'Leaves 4-8 in., the npper ones smaller threc-Iobed or 

 .^"■•e; leaflets 2-5 in., shortly petioluled or sessile, the central one oblong-lanceolate, 

 ;?e lateral ones exceedingly oblique, all distantly often sharply toothed. 2W?rtZ» 

 pple, Woodj. i^/ower* subumbellate, forming compact divancatmg cymes 1 4 in. 

 ^"°ff> usually shorter than the petiole. Petals distinct StyU slender conspicuous. 

 'p»t globose, l-seeded, the size of a currant, black? Seed Jby i in., globose, bmooih ; 



a brittle. 



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