Vitis. ‘ PENTANDREA MONOGYNTA. 661 
| Trunk woody, climbing over trees, &c.; young shoots 
very long, covered with a little rusty wool. Tendrils op- 
posite, simple, or split. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, 
serrate ; above a little woolly, below much so; four inches 
long, by three broad. Petioles round, woolly, two inches 
long. Peduncles opposite, composed of compound racemes, 
alittle woolly, Flowers very numerous, small, green, fasci- 
cled. Petals cohering at the top; when they drop they.seem 
to be a monopetalous corol, and what was the top must then 
be considered as the bottom, Berries round, purple, suecu- 
lent, size of a pea, one or two-seeded. 
3. V. latifolia. Bi th 
. Herbaceous, climbing. Leaves cordate-lobate, | semasionis 
serrate, smooth, . Tendrils panicle-bearing, a 
Germs embraced by a nectarial cup, buat) ginetine 
Vallia-Pira-Pitica, Rheed. Mots vil, 13, ‘. z cots eves 
., Beng. Govila, a ; 
_A native of Bengal. pre of pe warmer maritime. nnd 
India, blossoming about the beginning’ of the rainy season 5 
and ripening its fruit in July. | 
. Root tuberous, Stem and branches herbaceous, clined 
ing, round, and smooth, very long, and slender, running over 
trees, &c, to a great extent. Tendrils leaf-opposed, gener- 
ally two-parted, panicle-bearing. Leaves petioled, alter- 
nate, always opposite to a tendril, nearly of a round, cordate- 
lobate shape, with three, fivé, or seven rather acute lobes; 
Margins serrate-dentate, pretty smooth on both sides, length 
and breadth from three to nine inches. _Paniedes issuing so- 
litarily from the middle of the tendrils *before they divide ; 
peduncles ovate, dense, Flowers very numerous, small, of a 
deep. reddish brown, Bractes linear. Calyx small, ob- 
- seurély five-toothed. Petals oblong, at first expanding, then 
-reflexed. Germ superior, nearly round, two-celled, with two 
_ ovula in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. Style, 
none. “Stigina a pitin the lobate apex of the germ. 
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