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emarginate, grooved on the back and in the groove a long linear tubercle, the raphe 

 also lying in a groove on the face.— According to Blume, the leaves are sometimes 4-5- 



foliolate. 





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e. Fruit oblong suhfcdcate, \ in, long. 



IqIST" *^^™Pylo<5arpa, Kurzmss.; whole plant quite glabrous, fruit ■ 

 ^"seeaed, seed i by i in. cylindrical curved transversely wrinkled, style 0, 

 Stigma large subpeltate. ^ ^ . ' -^ ' 



^^^^y^t Griffith ; Fequ, Xurz. 

 ^few5 round. Leaves 6-8 in., coriaceous; petiole 24-4 in. ;lea^ets stalteS/obovate, 

 ™aeiily and shortly acuminate, faintly seirate towards tte tip. Tendrils 0. 'Flowers 

 d V K ^ sessile very diflfuse widely divaricating cymes longer than the petiole. Fruit 

 <iart-brown, not pulpy, pericatp reduced to a thin membrane. ' ;*. "\ . ^'-.■^^•'^'^''' ^'^■^ 



Petals and stamens 5. 



50. V. dlvaricata, FoZZ.^ m ffb. 18U: ex Cat. 5994^ A under V. 

 **\gpsa ; whole plant covered with deciduous down, stems cylindric, leaves 

 ^1^.-1 ft, terminal leaflet ovate acute or subacuminate lateral semi-cordate. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 6-700 ft., to E. Nepal, alt. 

 3-4000 ft. ; Maisor, Serb. Bottler, 

 otems slender, far-climbing. Leaves thinly membranous, 3- rarely 5-foliolate ; petiole 



."* in. ; leaflets serrate, at length glabrous or nearly so. Flowers dark-brown or red, 

 small compact umbellate cymes on long woolly peduncles, which bear a forked ten- 



™ about 1 in. from the top'. Style very short. Fruit globose, the size of a currant, 

 ack, 3-4-seeded. Seed J by J in., almost round, flat, emarginate, pale coloured, — 

 ight & Arnott unite this with F. tomentosa, to which it is very closely allied, but 



*"8er8 suflSciently in the composition and texture of the leaves. 





^l' ^' ^''^'^©osus, Balz. d: Gibs, Bomb, FL 41 ? ; whole plant covered 

 ^th a deciduous down except on the under surface of the leaves where it 

 js persistent, stems flattened, leaves 4-6 in., terminal leaflet elliptic, lateral 

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^ESTERN Peninsula ; highest Ghats of the Concan ; Pulney Mts., Wight. . ^ ^^ .. 



o^cw^ slender, far-climbing. Zeai-e^ membranous; petiole, 1-2 in.; leaflets shortl^- 

 ^^'Ked, serrate, at length glabrous above, felted beneath. Ptowers and fruit an m 

 i- ^^^aricata. Seeds 4 by i in., elliptic, with a round depression on the back, puckered 



^a the margins. 



^CT. III. Leaves mostly 5-foliolate, digitate. (See 58, cinnamomea.) 

 * lowers umbellate hardly cymose. 



62. V. obtecta, Wall. Cat. 6026; branclies rooting, young branches 

 r'^fJles and peduncles clothed with soft villous red hairs, petioles 1^2^ in., 

 leaflets all under 4 in., flowers 4-merous. V. hederacea. Wall. Cat. 6019, 



|.^ESTERjf Himalaya, from Kumaon, alt. 6000 ft., Tliormon; to Nipal, WaUich. 



J^'»ing branches very slender, creeping, older with a roughish bark and covered with 

 "•^lerous short fterial rootlets. Lenjlets ovate or obovate, sessile or nearly so serrate, 

 ''^'^'•ous. membranous, lateral much smaller than the terminal. TendrtU branched, very 

 »^er, AiOTi. Flowers unisexual, ^ in. long. >S'<i/;e 0, stigma flat. ^ Fruit immature, 



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 ^ size of a cun^anVglobo^,T-^eeded, black? Seedi 



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■T lowers iimheliate in divaricating sulcorymbosecy^s,; 

 k^^- V. ThomsdAi, Zam; stems 'cylindric slender, "whole jilant gla- 

 ™'^s, leaves glaucous deep green, petiole 2-3 in., leaflets 3-4 by l|-2 in. 



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