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Geraniaced THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. _ 149 
Vitis (Cissus) rosea; foliis rotundato-cordatis acuminatis, marginibus sinuato-serrulatis, ramis, 
petiolis pedunculisque pilosis, stipulis coloratis ovato-oblongis villosis, umbellis decompositis foliis 
oppositis, fructibus oblongis utrinque attenuatis (v. Tab. 26. f.1.) This elegant species of Vitis, found 
in the Kheree Pass and similar situations at the foot of the Himalaya, very nearly approaches C. cordata 
of Roxburgh from Amboyna; which is referred to V. repens by M. De Candolle, but may be distin- 
guished by its villous habit and barberry-shaped fruit, in which respect it resembles C. vitigenia, D.C. 
The stems are climbing, round, striated, hairy ; stipules small, rounded, hairy; peduncles leaf-opposed 
longer than petioles; hairy bractes at each subdivision of the compound umbel or cyme. Petals 4, 
_ distinct, spreading, of a light pink colour (a.b.) Stamens 4, inserted into the disk (c.) Germen 
surrounded by disk with truncate style, two-celled, 4-seeded (c.d.) Fruit pyriform (c.), one or two 
seeded, when double, each is flattened, with radicle and cotyledons, as in the genus (d. e. f.) 
“Vitis (Cissus) capreolata ; foliis pedato-5-foliolatis glabris, foliolis ovalibus utrinque’ attenuatis 
setacco-serratis, pedunculis petiolo longioribus, umbellis multifloribus.—Cissus capreolata, Don Prod. 
Fil. Nep. p. 188. - Vitis hederacea, Wall. Cat. N. 6019.b. Cissus hederacea, Royle MSS., 'Tab. 26. f. 2. 
(a. b.) flowers. 2.* The fruit. The species which has been figured in this plate, I am informed by 
Mr. Don is his Cissus capreolata, though his character does not in all respects agree with the plant. 
The group with pedate leaves (of which the two lateral ones are in pairs) to which this belongs, contains 
several species so nearly allied to one another—as Vitis japonica, nepalensis, serrulata and cymosa—that 
it is difficult to ascertain whether the differences in appearance be dependent on distinction of spe- 
cies or on differences of locality. The two last are found at the foot of the hills, and may be distin- 
guished by the great size of their bractee ; and V. serrulata, obtained first by Dr. Roxburgh from 
Chittagong, by the fewness of flowers in each umbel, shortness of the peduncles, and by its straggling 
habit. V. capreolata is found at elevations of 6,000 and 7,000 feet, clinging to the trunks of trees as 
closely as ivy, some of the cirrhi performing the office of roots in fixing the plant in the covering of 
moss, &c. with which the bark is covered in the rainy season, and perhaps even drawing nourishment 
from that receptacle of moisture. 
Ampelopsis Himalayana ; foliis palmato-3-foliolatis, foliolis coriaceis petiolatis utrinque glabris subtus 
glaucescentibus _ r ato-venosis mucronato-dentatis, medio basi attenuato, lateralibus inzequalibus, 
omnibus apice acu inatis, racemis dichotomo-corymbosis.—This, I was informed by Dr.Wight, was 
immediately recogni d by Dr. Torrie, on his late visit to England, as a genuine species of Ampelopsis, 
when seen by him in the splendid collection formed by the Countess of Dalhousie at Simla. My speci- 
mens, belonging to the same species, were procured at Mussooree, where the plant is common, climbing 
to the tops of lofty trees. Vitis semi-cordata, Wall. No. 6020, Ic: ined. 852, appears also to be a species 
of Ampelopsis from Nepal,—Whether this genus be continued distinct, or considered only a section of 
Vitis, the geographical distribution of its species will be equally interesting. 
43. GERANIACE®. 
This order is well known from the Geraniums, or Cranesbills, being common in every 
forming favourite flowers in every part of the world. The latter (natives chiefly of the 
Cape of Good Hope) are also found in New Holland, and may be seen growing every 
where apparently wild in the island of St. Helena. The genera Geranium and Erodium, 
found in most parts of the World where there is moderate temperature, as in the plains 
of the northern half of the temperate zone and the mountains of tropical countries, are 
fqund in the Himalayas, where about fifteen species have been discovered at. various 
heights, as in the mountains above Silhet, in Nepal, and every where in Kemaon, 
Gurhwal, and Sirmore. Geranium bicolor nob. is that which occurs at the lowest 
elevations, being found in the Kheree Pass. At an elevation of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet, 
as at Mussooree, G. Wallichianum and Nepalense are common, with some new species, 
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field in Europe, and the Pé/argoniums, to which the former nanie is generally applied, | 
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