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serrate in the nbtcTies. Tendrils slender, simple or forked. Cvmes^ axillary- or termi- 

 nating in short lateral branches, pedunculate; peduncles usually with 8everal_ scanous 

 conspicuous bracts, 3-5-rayed, rays several-flowered. Flov^ers pedicelled; pedicels 

 J- J in. Fruit the size of a currant, globose, 2-4-seeded, black. Beed ^ by i^'^-'P*^^' 

 obovoid, thick, rounded and muricate on the back, and with a linear tubercle, flattened 

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tt Flowers suhcorymhosely cymose. \ 



.'62. V. tenuifolla, W. & A. Prodr. 129; whole plant quite glabrous, 

 leaves membranous, tendrils simple or forked, peduncles long, cymes some- 

 what diffuse axillary but often owing to the sudden suppressi9n of the A^^^^" 

 bearinor branch appearing terminal, fruit the size of a^ea 1'*'^^^^^^ 

 seed \ by iin, triangulan V. paniculata, Eerh. Heyne in Wall. Cat 602J ^ 

 in part, and h. Cissus japonica. WUld.; DC Prodr. I 632. ^C. fenmfolia, 

 Heyne in Wall Cat 6022 a, tn part. C. cymo&'a,, Wail. Cat, 6017- u 



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truncata, Wall, Cat. 6032.; 



NiPAL, Wallici; SiBxiM Himalaya, alt. 1-5000 ft., /.-D. fi.; the K«asia MiJ^ 

 Assam, Birma, Pegu, Tenasserim, and Malacca. Western PENiNStrtl, m ifl 

 Southern provinces. — Distrib. China and Japan. ■ '■ ^* ^ Lo in 



Stems slender, herbaceous. Petiole 2-4 in.; leaflets shortly stalked, 1-3 ^y|7 '* 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply serrate. Tendrils short, slender. ^'^Jr 

 in divaricating dichotomous cymes, bisexual. /S'^^Ze short, stigma large, subpelta- 

 Fruit turbinate-globose. ; ' >Seea rounded and muricate on the back, sharply nUgea 

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v>63. V. moUls, Wall Cat. 6025; whole plant covered with ^.snor^ 



soft pubescence, leaves membranous, flowers fruit and seed as in '• 





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and Chittagong. Malacca, Griffith. . • : . t ''i^^-; a,^>^,^'^ . j^ 



Closely resembling F. tenuifolia in habit. Pe^ioZe f-lj in.; leaflets conspicucm / 

 stalked, 1^-3 by |-U in., ovate, broadly lanceolate or subovate, serrate. .. 



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V 64. V. lanceolaria, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 412 (Cissus) ; whole pjan* q^^j 



glabrous with exception of the inflorescence, branches round coy 

 ■with corky warts or tubercles, leaves between fleshy and conaceous, leu 

 simple, cymes very short and compact in the axils of the leaves, nu 

 unisexual, fruit the size of a small cherry dry % seed \ m- subPF" ^ 

 or almost globose. Wall. Gat. 6013, inpart; W.&A. P^o.^^'i^^/m\ 

 -^. t. 177; Braml. For. Fl. 101. V. muricata, ^■'^/i,^rni\m 

 WallCat^0i5 ; Wight Ic. t. 740. V. serratifolia, W. <k A. Prodr. 12» l^^^ 

 EottL). Cissus feminea, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 410 ; DC. Prodr. i. .f^l- J'* ^ 

 ceolana, DC. Prodr. i 632 • Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 33; Thwaite^iif'^^' 

 C. muricata, Dah. & Gibs. Btmh. Fl. 40; Thwaites Enum. 63. ^ ^^ 



Assam, Pequ, and the Eastern Peninsula, from Tenaasenm to Malacc*. ^ 

 Peninsula, from the Concan southwaras. CEyLON, ascending to 3000 ft. .^j^ jj. 



Branches woody. Leaves 5-foliolate, pedate, more' rarely 3-foholate , p ^^^^ 

 3 in. ; leaflets 3-5 by 1-2 in., stalked, oblong-lanceolate, distantly serrate- « # ;. 

 stigma peltate subiobed. Fru^t suhfleshy ?, globoseV 1-4 ?-seeded.--lii au i <^i. 

 mens M-hich 1 have examined, the fruit has been 1-2- not 4-'8eeded as staw 

 enrph, Wight, and Arnott, also smaller than a cherry. ' l-wvv^. - ^^^ f. 



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VAB. 2; assimilis, Kurz mss. (^>.); stems cjlindric somewhat^ smo^ ' 



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