4 Sy Se 2D; Sond.). : 
250 AMPELIDEZ (Kunth.) [Cissus, 
pubescent, older glabrous ; stems terete, striate ; leaves on long peti- 
oles, broadly cordato-reniform, very obtusely 5-angled, repando-dentate, 
three-nerved at base and penni-nerved, obtuse, coriaceous ; stipules 
ovate ; inflorescence thyrsoid, densely tomentose, the peduncles elon- 
gate, with several lateral and one terminal swb-capitate cymes ; flowers 
woolly. DC. Prod. t. p. 629. Vitis capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 212. 
E. & Z. 1 427. ; 
Var. 8. Dregeana ; leaves 3-lobed or tri-partite, the segments entire 
or repand. Cissus, 7526 Drege! C. Dregeana, Bernh.! Flora, 27. p. 
297. C. capensis, 8. integrifolia, H. & Z.! 
Has. In mountain ravines. Eastern sideof Table Mountain, and in Uitenhage, 
E.& Z.! Drege, &e. 
Leaves 2 inches long, and 3 broad, truncate or concave at base, between cordate 
and reniform, sinuous and obscurely toothed, or in 8. deeply lobed and cut nearly 
to the base. All the young parts and the inflorescence are covered with short, red- 
brown, woolly hairs. 
Group 2. Exstipunata. Leaves without stipules, rigid, 1-3-5-fo- 
liolate ; leaflets entire or bluntly toothed or sinuate. (Sp. 4-11.) 
4 ©. unifoliata (Harv.); branches angular, glabrous, or nearly so ; 
leaves petiolate, unifoliolate ; leaflet elliptical or ovate-oblong, obtuse 
or sub-acute, coriaceous, one-nerved, equal sided, quite entire, mucro- 
nulate, the younger leaves and twigs rusty-puberulous ; stipules none ; 
cymes shorter than the leaves, few-flowered ; petals 4, deltoid. 
Has, Collected by Zeyher. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.). 
A much-branched, sub-erect or trailing shrub, densely leafy, the young parts rusty. 
The leaves in all the specimens seen are unifoliolate, with an imperfect joint at 
the summit of the petioles. In other respects the species is nearly related to C. 
Thunbergit. No habitat is given with the specimens, which are marked “ Z. n. N. 
n. E. Ampelid, 2. 104. 3.” 
5. C. Thunbergii (E. & Z. 430) ; shrubby, much-branched ; branches 
reddish-brown, pubescent ; leaves petiolate, ternate (or quinate) ; leaflets 
thick and rigid, oblong or obovate, very obtuse, tapering at base, entire, 
glabrous above, the younger rusty-pubescent beneath, the lateral pair un- 
 equal-sided and shorter than the terminal; cymes terminal or lateral, 
pedunculate, divaricate, rusty-pubescent ; petals 5-6, glabrous. Rhus di- 
gitatum, Thunb., fide E.§ Z.! Cissus ferruginea, E. Mey.! Drege 7524, 
7525- 
Woods, throughout the eastern districts and Caffraria. (Herb. Hook., 
‘sub-erect or trailing shrub, having all the younger parts, the under-sides 
leaves and the inflorescence clothed with foxy hairs. Cirthi simple, oppo- 
w it h quinate 
aves. Cy it rowelly. shorter than the leaves. Drege’s 7524 is a young 
species inate leaves and hirsute petioles. 
