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elliptic-lanfceolate serrate pale beneath, flowers 4-merous, seed dark pinkish- 

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Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft., R.f. ST. . ; . , 



:> A low creeper, turning red. Leaflets narrowed into short stalks. Tendrils stoutisu, 

 branching. Flowers in slender widely divaricating cymes, green. Style subulate. 

 "f^ruit the size of a currant, globose, 2-^seeded, pruiuose. Seed I'm., cbovoid^ roundea 

 ;t)n the back, wedge-sbaped on the face. 



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Cat 6016 ; whole plant quite glabrous, branches 

 slightly flattened thick and succulent polished, petioles 5-8 in., leaflet 

 5-7 by 2-2i in, elliptic-lanceolate shortly acuminate serrate ^^^^^^^f 

 naiTowed into a stalky flowers 4-merous. Cissus elongata, Roxb.rLina. 



i.411; W. (b A. Prodr. 128. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 1-5000 ft., Silhet and Bengal ; Conouxm^h Hoxhurgk ^ 

 - A very large climber running up and over the highest trees. ^*i?rancA€5 tew o 

 until the plant arrives at a great height. Tendrils simple. C?/?r?e^d];trichotomoB8, 

 the last divisions shcrt ending in small umbels. Style short, 

 elliptic, smooth, black, l-seeded. &ed | in., obo-vate, smoothish. 

 • say that the leaves in this species, as also in the next, are sometimes pedate. 



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^ 55. V. auriculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 411 (Cissus) ; branclies -.- 

 sticculent the young parts softly pubescent, petioles 4-7 in.', leaflets on long 

 stalks' 2-6 by 1-4 in. obovate acute or shortly acuminate serrate mem^ 

 ■branous. flowers 4-merous. Wall. Cat. 6031 ; W. & A. P'rodr. m,^'^ f'^j' 

 Wight n:m. Cissus auriculata, DC. Prodr. i. 632 ; Dalz. & Chh^- B^'^' 



Fruit 1 by \ i^'i 

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 ,^A large climber like V. elongata, 5aritof the older stems spongy and deeply cracK^^. 



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^65 softly ^mbescent beneatl) when younc:, at length glabrous; - ^ 



Ten JWZs 2-3-cleft. i^Zoz^-^r/ small Q//ne/ on long thick ^^k succmea 



peduncles, divaricating, longer than the petiole. Fruit the size of » cherry, gio' 

 red, l-seeded. Seed elliptical, rounded at the base, | ^^ X in.— None of tHe lea 

 m the many specimens I have met with are pedate, as 



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glabrous, stems greatly flatt6necf, petioles 4-7 in., leaflets on stalks ^'^^ 

 5-8 by 2-3 in. oblong-lanceolate subacuminate obtusely-serrate^ ni« 



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branous or subcoriaceous, flowers 4-inerous. 



SiKKiM HiMALAYA, and Khasia Mt8., alt. 3-4000 ft. ;. , ^ .-oui ^^ 



A vast chraber reaching to the top of the highest trees, and sending ^own j^ 



Ranches long thin leafless bands. Stems at the base often U ft. '^^^^^.^If^^vaHcating 

 Tendnls stout, simple. Flowers green. Cymes subcorymbose witli a^^-* , ^^^ 

 branches. Style subulate; stigma 4.1obed. Fruit the size' of a cherrTi.''*^ ' 

 1-2-seeded. Seed 4 by J in., nearly cylindricaL transversely rugose..^ k- 



57. V. obovata, Laws. ; brancBes petioles pe<3funcies ..an^ ten ^^^^ 

 clothed with a long soft spreading fulvous pubescence,, stems mu^ ^^^ 

 tened, petiole 4-7 in., leaflets 6-10 in. stalked glabrous except u^ 

 stalks obovate acute or subacuminate distantly and coarsely serraie. 



Tendrils stout, simpTe, very long. Cymes sliortTy pedunculate, ""f^"^ o.geeJei 

 aiTaric»ting branctes. Flowers? Fruit the size of a cherry, globose, * 



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