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36. V. setosa, FoZZ. Caf. 6009; wliole plant covered with long glan- 

 dular bristly hairs without other pubescence, leaves sessile, fruit red. 

 TT. (k A. Prodr. i 127; Wight Ic. t 170; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 41. 

 Cissus acida, WaU. Cat. 6009, h. {not L) C. setosa, Roxk FL Ind. I 410; 

 DC. Prodr. i.%ZQ. ' '^"'■■ 



Western Peninsula ; from the Circars and Maisor southwards. Cetlon, soutn part 

 of the Island, Gardner, • ^ . > '•€ u^ 



h Stem and leaves very fleshy, herbaceous, weak. Leaflets 1-2 in., sessile or snortly 

 stalked, ovate or subovate, rounded at the tip, sbarply and irregularly serrate -dentate. 

 Tendrils usually forked, succulent. Floicers ^^ in. long, umbellately dispos^ i? 

 divaricating cymes. Cymes on pednncles as lonoj as or longer than the leaves- Fetoi^ 

 xevolute. Fruit the size of a nea. when vounsr often hairv. 1-seeded. Seed a 



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nearly smooth. — Every part of the plant is exceedingly acrid, ^ / . "1 .;:v • 



37. V. camosa, Wall. Cat. 6018 ; whole plant when y^^^SJ^^^^^ 

 with a short dense pubescence, leaves petioled, fruit black. W. (t A- 

 Prodr. 127; Wight Ic. 171; Brand. For. Fl. 101. V. crenata, ^Ww. 

 Cat 6021. V. trifolia, Linn. Sp. PL 203. Cissus acida, Boxb. Ic. tned.m* 

 C. auriculata, Boxb. WaU. Cat 6031 6. C. carnosa, Boxb. FL dnd^t 

 409 ; DC. Prodr. i. 630 ; Grak Cat Bomb. PL 33 ; Balz. cfc Gibs. Bomb J^^ 

 40. C. crenata, VaJd DC Prodr. I 631. C. cinerea, Lamk. ; DC. Prodr 



631; C. obtusifolia, Lamk. Diet i. Z\lt—B1ieede Hart. „ . 



Tropical Himalaya and throughout the hotter parts of India from the Panjab an 

 BmMA to Ceylon and Malacca. ,. :> . . \ '^^ i ^ 



Stems more slender and less succulent than in F. setosa. Leaves 2-6 in.,.on long 



petioles; leaflets usually shortly stalked, i-3 in., ovate or ohovate, rounded or acuw, 

 serrate or dentate. ^Tendrils opposite the leaves, slender, wiry, usually brancnea. 



Floioers white, larger than in K sefo^a, umbellately cymose, the peduncle ^'l"^" j^ 

 the petiple., ^tylc conspicuous. Fruit turbinate, fleshy, 2-4-seeded. >^M J, by Jin- 

 triangular, round on the back and with a Unear tubercle, wedge-shaped on the face. 



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38. V. bracteolata, WaU. in Roxl. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 483 ;Cat 

 ; stems smooth, floTvers minute numerous, peduncles and peaic , 





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^feni^ and leaves glabrous. Branches very slender. Leaves 3-5 in. ; petiole nc jr 

 as long as the leaflets; leaflets nearly sessile or shortly stalked, lanceolate ^^ ^ ^^ 

 lanceolate or ovate-acute, serrate, membranous or subcoriaceous. Fbicers lar ^ 

 smallest of the geims, disposed in pubescent divadcating filiform cymes. \il^^l.^^ 

 long slender peduncle. Style 0. Fruit the size of a pea, round, black, 2--<J-see 

 Seed 1 by i in., obovoid or globose, finely muricate. ; 



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under 1 in. lonrr slinrf.pr flinn fh 



ymes 



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V. hracteolata, fruit the size and colour of a black currant ^'^'^r^^ 

 seed hemispherical hollow, pale. WigM Ic. 176. Cissus angusuw -. 



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'^ Assam, Silhet, and the KhIsia Mts.'— tJiSTRiB;" Sumatra (i?o:c5«r^^)V Hongkong. ^ 

 ^tem« flexuous, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves '^-6 in. ; petiole jS/Liple. 



leaflets shortly stalked, lanceolate, serraW, glabrous, "inemhtanou? 





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