660 : PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Vitis. 
from one to four-seeded. Embryo erect, and furnished with 
a perisperm. 
1. V. indica, Willd. spec. i. 1180. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves round-cordate, often more or 
less angled, finely serrate, downy underneath. » Tendrils pa- 
nicle-bearing. | Germ embraced by a five-lobed leds Ber- 
ries round, from one to two-seeded. 
Schembra-valli. Rheed, Mal. vii. an t. 6. 
_ Beng. Amdhouka, 
A native of various parts of iedies Flowering sinc the 
month of April. The fruit ripens in July, 
_ Root, perennial... Stem and branches long and anhin’ 
climbing: up and over trees, hedges, &c. to an extent of ma- 
ny fathoms ; young shoots villous... Tendrils opposite to the 
leaves, floriferous, beyond the flowers bifid, Leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, round-cordate, more or less angular, finely 
serrate, more or less villous according to their age, particu- 
_ larly. underneath, from three to six inches each way. Pe- 
tioles vather shorter than the leaves. Panicles issuing soli- 
tarily from. the middle of the tendrils, peduncled, ovate, . 
dense... Flowers numerous, very minute, greenish purple. 
Calyx small, fiye-toothed, Petals five, ovate-oblong, at 
first spreading, afterwards reflex, and not cohering at top as 
in some of the species. Neciary a five-toothed, saucer-shap- 
stihodys. surrounding the base of the germ. Filaments five, 
arly as long.as the petals. Germ superior, nearly round, 
two-celled, with two ovula in each, attachéd to the ho 
sha cell... Style none. este fivelobed. “ 
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2. y. ietiate R. : | sie 
_ Shrubby,. climbing. Soin tales serrate, pnndliyas un- 
derneath, Racemes: gone’ leaf- Bet ioe pttepale coher- 
