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JTiese Blast species are closely allied to V. cinnamomea and V. elegam' and vnth 

 mem form the binding link between this genus and JPterisantkas. - ■ •> 



Sect. VI. Leaves 1-3-pinnate. 



^' rubifolia, Wall, in Boxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 480 ; Cat. 6037 



Dranclies and younger parts pubescent, leaves pinnate, leaflets closely and 

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Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft., De Siha, &c. ; Silhet, Wallkh. Assam, J/cwfer^?. 

 1_9J • ^^ climbing shrub, branches slender, angular. Leaves%-9 in. ; leaflets 2^-34 by 

 T ji '/"''r ^^^^*'J^ stalked, 3-5-paired, subcordate-ovate, acute or subacumii)ate. 

 ieTkfrUs forked, glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Flowers small, green, umbel- 

 |ate in slender dichotomous subcorymbose cymes. Fruit the size of a currant, red, 

 tiff ^^^<^k. Seed ^ by | in., broadly obovoid, the back rounded and with a 

 spathulate tubercle, the margins trans veraelj rugose, face sharply wedge-shaped, lighW 



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'0. V. cantonlensiS| >Si^^?w. Bot Herald Voy, 370; whole plant quite 

 glabrous, leaves pinnate or the lower pair of pinnae temately compound, 

 ^issus cantoniensis, Hook, d: Arn. Bot, Beech, 175. C. diversifolia/ Walp. 

 FL Meyen. 314. Hedera hypoglauca, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 724. 



Malacca, Oriffith.—Diwrm^. Hongkong, r; ™ , : ,.. . ! . . 



^tem slender, cylindric. Leaflets 5-paired^ 2-3 by J-l in., ovate-lanceolate, coarsely 

 crenate, whitish beneath. Tendrils branched. Flowers small, in dichotomous corym* 

 wse cymes, 5-merous ? . StyU eubulate.i Fruit and seed as in F. rubifolia. — A spe- 

 cimen in Herb. Hook., marked Khasia, Griffith, is evidently a fragment of the plants 

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vms ATRoviRiDis, Wall. Cat, 6040, is Oymnostemma trigyna. 



V. ERYTHRocLADA, Jfwr^! irt /(?urft. ^5. ^oc. Bengl 1872, ii. 301, from Pegu (JTttrs) 

 *^ apparently allied to F. obovata, but the description is not sufficient for identification. 



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I-arge scandent or sannentose plants furnisbed witjb tendrils. Leaves 

 Jternate, simple or 3-7-f()liolate, digitate or pedate. Flowers small, 4-5- 

 ■^erous, inserted on a flat expanded membranous nedunculated rachis, 

 "aisexual ; male flowers marginal, often pedicellate ; female sessile. Calyx 

 cup-shaped or obsoletely toothed. PeicUs separating. Omru 2-celled : style 

 J^ery short, stigma capitate. 'Berry globose or obovoid, 1-4-seeded.— 

 *^KTRiB. Sp. 5 or 6. Malay and Indian archipelago. 



- Very closely alKed to ViAs, especially to thoae forms of fte genus in which the 

 "o^ers are sessile on racemose spikes. Miquel is probably n^bt in uniting it with 







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S'af'^ous, leaves. simplC^vCWt,, ;- :-^ ^.:^ >'^;A.:» .-*".. ^^^■-rv-.y..: ,, . 



«ARTABAN, at Moulmein, Lobh; Sincapoee, Maingay.—DiaTmB Sumatra Borneo. 



^An exceedinglj- slender far-cUmbing plant. Leaves 4-8 by 2-34 i°-. eUiptic-oblong 



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