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Wight Ic. 

 yana, Walp, 



Ampelopsis Limalayana, 



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" 'TemperIte Himalaya, from Kashmir, alt. 6-9000 ft., to Sikkim, >!*=• 6-11,000 ft, 

 Khasia Mts., alt- 2-4000 ft. Pegu, Kurz. Western Peninsula ; Pulnej Mts., 



Wight, r « Q • 



Bark smooth, or on the older branches with a few small warts. Leaves o~^ m-, 

 ihembranous or subcorlaceous, often glossy; petiole 1^-4 in. ; leaflets 2-5 in., sharply or 

 iuciso-serrate, the terminal ovate or obovate, rounded at the base or subcordate, acumi- 

 nate, lateral J-ovate or ^-cordate. Tendrils 0. Flotoers J in., in subcorymbose diclio- 



Fruit 4 -seeded. 



Style short, stout. 



Var. smzcorc/a^a. Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 481 (species) ; young branches 

 jtetioles and the nerves beneath the leaves hispidly pubescent, leaves smaller than m tne 

 type, tendrils sometimes present branched, Wall. Cat, 6020. Himalaya and iviiasia 

 Mts. — Perhaps this ought not to be distinguished even as a variety. " ■ " ^ ' 



.45. V. anamallayana, Beddome in Tram. Linn. Socxxv. 213; ave^ 

 large glabrous climber, petiole 1-2 in., leaflets 3f-4 in. ovate-lanceolate 

 with a long acumination sharply serrate conspicuously reticulate beneatn, 

 peduncles shorter than the petioles, cynaes lax. 



Western Peninsula; 

 Beddome, 



banks of rivers on the Anamallay hills, alt. 



5000 ft. 



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'' ' Leaves of the yotmger branches simple, ovate-lanceolate, of the older usually n 



Holate: netiole 'slandular : leaflets nearlv enual.— The description is too impertect w 





liolate ; petiole ^glandular ; leaflets nearly equal, 

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^ 46. V. Gardner!, Thwaites Enum. 6 



fescent, petioles about lin., leaflets 2-3 in. uy^ x-x^ xn., ^j- , , 



rufescent much longer than the petioles, fruit the size of a pea blac 



branches terete ru; 





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purple. 



u Ckylon; iviaieie ana nunasgine district, Thwaites. llpaflets 



Leaflets glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, re pan d- dentate, cuneate at the base, lateral le 

 oblique, smaller. Stipulea cordate-oblong, adnate. 



6. Fruit globose^ 1 in. or more in diameter. 







V. moUissima, Wall 



Hoxh 



slender when young covered »Txtxi x^Jl±^ xiiol.a« xx«xx^ 



fruit drv 1 in. diam. Wt 



surfaces, style long slender 



l-ENANa, WaUich; Malacca, Griffith, Maivgay. ^ )i ^^'"haiTS, 



. Stems at length glabrous. Leaves 5-8 in., covered with long soft ^^^" J^^ J. . 

 memVanoufi ; petiole 2-3i in.; leaflets ovate or oblong-ovate, f^^^.^^puy^ers 

 minate, faintly serrate, lateral veiy oblique. Tendrils very slender, forked. -^ ^^^ 

 about jV in., long peduncled, divaricating cymes equalling the petioles. ^^- ^^^ 

 seeded. Seed J by J in., elliptic-oblong, boat-shaped, rounded and polishea o ^ 

 back and witli a linear tubercle hollow on the face.— Wallich describes tne n ^^ 

 being "nearly the size of a cherry ;'' but the ripe ones in specimens from Malacca 

 Tery much larger. 



V. tuberculata 



4». V, tuDercuata, JBlume Bijd, 189 (Cissus); stemVery ^J^;Ju|^ 

 brous, leaves quite glabrous coriaceous, style very short, stigma s^PF , 



fniit r?rv 14 in flifl.Tn -- - ^ v^>:^, 



leaflets shortly 



fruit dry 1| in. diam. 



Pegu, McClelland.— 'Di^'i^ib. Java. 



.Whole plant auite glabrous. Leaves 8 in. to 1 ft. ; petiole 24 in.; leaflets ^^^^ 

 stalked, narrowly ovate-laiiceolate, shortly acuminate, ei^ tire or very tainc ^^^^^^ 

 towards the tip, margin slightly revolnte.l Tewdn'/a simple 9^1^^^*^'.. ^^ veiT 

 very sm^all^ in ^dense compact cyxnes under 1 in.; almost sessile, r^." ^j^vnid 

 short thick pedicels, dry, membranous, brown, 1-3-seeded. Seed J by 5 ^^ 



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