AMPELIDEZ. 
Cult. A mixture of loam and peat with a little sand, will 
suit this tree. Ripened cuttings, with their leaves not shortened, 
will root in sand under a hand-glass. 
Orver LIII. AMPELI'DEZ (from apzedoc, ampelos, a vine, 
and. «coc, eidos, form; plants like the grape-vine). H. B. et 
‘Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 5. p. 223. D.C. prod. 1. p. 627.— 
Vites, Juss. gen. 267.—Sarmentaceze, Vent. tabl. 3. p. 167.— 
Viniferee, Juss. mem. mus. 3. p. 144. 
Calyx small, with an entire or toothed (f. 118. a.) margin. . 
Petals 4-5, alternating with the teeth of the calyx, round the 
base of the ovary, and inserted on the outside ; they are there- 
fore between hypogynous and _perigynous, broadest at the base, 
rarely connected into a lobed, monapetalous corolla (f. 118. b.), 
somewhat valvate and inflexed at the apex in estivation, Sta- 
mens equal in number with the petals, inserted in the disk in 
front of the petals, sometimes sterile from abortion ; filaments 
free or joined at the base (f. 118. f); anthers ovate, birimose, 
mserted by their back, oscillatory. Ovary globose, free. Style 
l, short or almost wanting, crowned by a simple stigma. Ber- 
nes globose (f. 117.), younger ones 2-celled; cells 2-seeded. 
Adult berries usually with the dissepiments vanished, therefore 1- 
celled, watery or fleshy, not separating from the epicarp. Seeds 4-5, 
or fewer from abortion, sometimes wanting, erect, bony, fixed to 
the central axis by short funicles (f. 118. c.). Albumen fleshy, 
hard. Embryo erect, one-half shorter than the albumen, with 
à terete inferior radicle, and lanceolate cotyledons, which are 
keeled onone side and flat on the other. 
This order is composed of sarmentose and climbing shrubs, 
W the lower leaves opposite, and the upper ones alternate, 
ed, simple, lobed or compound, furnished with stipulas at 
Pig Peduncles racemose, thyrsoid, corymbose, cymose 
ai i ellate, opposite the leaves; sometimes these peduncles 
anged Into tendrils. Flowers small, insignificant, greenish 
m a bellow, rarely purple. The vine is the type and 
va hea of this order, the other genera differ but little 
ay in botanical character, and not at all in habit. The com- 
a grape is the only species that bears really good fruit, the 
encan kinds, with large fleshy berries, being spoiled by a dis- 
agreeable foxy flavour, which is not found to.be removed by 
Wi 
Cultivation, 
Synopsis of the Genera. 
Trise I. 
Vixr'p . 
Petals "FERE. Corolla polypetalous. Stamens opposite the 
Gy Peduncles often changed into tendrils. 
va *SBUS. Calyx nearly entire. Petals 4. Stamens 4. 
Peeled. Berry 1-4-seeded. 
weeolan ns THES. Perigone leafy, lobately-winged. Calyx 
Y Ni entire, Petals 4. Stamens 4. Stigma sessile, blunt- 
ary immersed in the disk. Berry 1-2-seeded. 
tyle Dao Psis. Calyx nearly entire. Petals 5. Stamens 5. 
th disk. Owned by a capitate stigma. Ovary not immersed in 
Vou, LL—PART VIIL. 
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I. Cissus. 
4 Vyrıs. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, cohering. Stamens 
5. Style wanting. Berry 2-celled, 4-seeded (f. 117.). 
Trige II. 
Lrraceæ. Corolla monopetalous (f. 118. b.). 
ternating with the lobes of the corolla, usually monadelphous (f. 
118. f.) Peduncles never changed into tendrils. 
5 Ler'a. Calyx 5-toothed (f. 118. a.). Corolla 5-cleft (f. 
118. b.). Urceolus of stamens 5-lobed (f. 118. f.); filaments 
adnate to the urceolus between the segments. Style simple (f. 
118. d.). Capsule 4-6-lobed, 4-6-celled ; cells 1-seeded. 
6 Lasiantne‘Ra. Calyx 5-toothed, bracteate on the outside. 
Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 5, inserted in the bottom of the corolla, 
and alternating with its lobes ; anthers hairy. Style short. 
Tribe I. 
VINT FER Æ (from vinum, wine, fero, to bear ; produce wine,) 
or SARMENTA'CEZ (from sarmentum, a twig; plants 
twiggy), D. C. prod. 1. p. 627. Corolla polypetalous. 
Stamens opposite the petals. Fruit and seeds as in the character 
of the order. Peduncles usually changed into tendrils. 
I. CISSUS (from kiøcoc, kissus, ivy, said to come from the 
Arabic qissos, signifying ivy). Lin. gen. no. 147. D.C. prod. 
1. p. 627. 
Em. syst. Tetrándria, Monogýnia. Calyx almost entire. 
Petals 4, separating from each other to the base. Stamens 4. 
Ovary 4-celled. Berry 1-4-seeded.—Climbing plants, with 
simple, trifoliate or palmate leaves, and cymes or corymbs of 
small, greenish, yellow, or purplish flowers. 
Stamens al- 
* Leaves simple, cordate, entire, and sometimes rather lobed. 
1 C. virtcinea (Lin. spec. 170.) leaves cordate, roundish, 
serrated, smoothish, or clothed with rusty pubescence beneath ; 
stipulas cordate. h.. S. Native of the East Indies.—Pluk. 
mant. 27. t. 337. f. 4. Vahl. symb. 3. p. 18. Berries pear- 
shaped, 1 or 2-seeded, black, clothed with a bluish-glaucous 
pollen. Plant with the habit of the grape-vine. Flowers red. 
Var. B, Cochinchinénsis (D.C. prod. 1. p. 627.) leaves smooth, 
toothletted, 3-lobed ; berries roundish. h.. S. Native of 
Cochin-china. C. vitiginea, Lour. cochin. 83. 
Vine-like Cissus. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1772. Shrub cl. 
2 C. repa’npa (Vahl. symb. 3. p. 18.) leaves cordate, en- 
tire, somewhat lobed, repand, adult ones smooth on both sur- 
faces. h.. S. Native of the East Indies. Young branches 
downy, adult ones smooth. Berries pear-shaped, about the 
size of peas, mucronate. 
Repand-leaved Cissus. Shrub cl. 
3 C. apna‘ta (Roxb. fl. ind. 1. p. 423.) leaves roundish, cor- 
date, acuminated, bristle-toothed, smooth above, velvety beneath, 
as well as the round branches; stipulas ovate-orbicular, adnate, 
with a gibbous centre, and scarious margins ; flowers nodding. 
_.., S. Native of the East Indies near Dacca. C. aristata, 
Blum. bijdr. 4th number. Berries black, size of peas. 
Adnate-stipuled Cissus. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1818. Shrub cl. 
4 C. vatiroria (Vahl. symb. 3. p. 18. exclusive of the 
synonyme of Lam.) leaves cordate, ovate, acuminated, bristly- 
serrated, smooth above, but clothed with rusty hairs beneath ; 
branches tetragonal ; stipulas oblong. h. u S. Native of 
the East Indies in woods.—Rumph. amb. 5. t. 164. f. 1. Berries 
-shaped. 
Pe road. kaved Cissus. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1824. Shrub cl. 
5 C. crav'ca (Roxb. fl. ind. 1. p. 425.) leaves cordate, acu- 
minate, sometimes somewhat lobed, bristly-serrated, smooth on 
both surfaces, as well as the petioles and peduncles ; stipulas 
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