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3-5 placed pedately on each of the lateral secondary petioles and one on the 
terminal, stalked, oblong-lanceolate, acumina , membranaceous, with shal- 
low serratures: inflorescence peduncled ; peduncles bracteated about the 
middle, axillary or opposite to the leaves, half of the length of the petiole, 
with two divaricating branches, each bearing a compound cyme: petals dis- 
tinct: style conspicuous: fruit flattened on the top, with usually 4 lobes and 
seeds.— Wall.! L. n. 6027 3 Wight! cat. n. 428.—Cissus pedata, Lam.; Vahl! ; 
Roxb. ! fl. Ind. 1. p. 413 3 (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 431 ; DC. prod. 1. p. 632 ; Spr. syst. 
427. (19) V. auriculata (Wall.:) young shoots succulent and petioles 
and inflorescence softly pubescent : stipules large, linear-oblong, recurved : 
leaves long-petioled, with 5 leaflets, pedate or sometimes digitate ; leaflets 
(when pedate) 2 on each of the lateral partial petioles and 1 on the termi- 
nal, stalked, oblong-obovate or rhomboid with a short sudden acumina- 
tion, with shallow serratures ; upper side glabrous, under softly pubescent : 
peduncles about the length of the petioles, axillary or terminal, bearing a di- 
varicately 2-3-chotomous and much branched cyme: petals distinct: style 
slender : fruit (red, the size shape and appearance of a ripe cherry) globose, 
l-seeded.— Wall! L. n. 6031. a, c; Wight! cat. n. 967.—Cissus auriculata, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 411; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 4307 in E. I. C. mus. tab. 17887 
DC. prod. 1. p. 632 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 450. — Southern Provinces. 
Wallich's specimens from Bengal and Ava, and Roxburgh's figure and 
description from. the plant in the Calcutta garden, sent by Heyne from 
J*ore, agree in having the leaves digitate: whereas our specimens from the 
*ninsula approach more near to the F. pedata, and have them pedate : yet 
We do not consider them distinct species: all have the same remarkable sti- 
pules. F. elongata, Wall. or Cissus elongata of Roxburgh, presents also the 
same kind of variation: indeed there we have seen both pedate and digitate 
faves on the same specimen: such instances are, however, rare in this genus. 
Wallich’s n. 6031. b belongs to V. carnosa. 
428, (20) V. tenuifolia (W. & A.:) glabrous : young shoots angled: leaves 
Petioled, pedate ; leaflets 5-7, two or three on each of the lateral partial pe- 
tioles and very shortly stalked, one on the terminal, sometimes long-stalked, 
oblong, acute at both ends, cuneate at the base, coarsely serrated, serratures 
tipped with an awn-like mucro: peduncles axillary, shorter than the petiole ; 
cymes dichotomous, few-flowered (most of the flowers deciduous) : petals 
tinct: style rather short: stigma capitate : fruit (the size of a pea) turbi- 
nate-globose, l-seeded : seed irregularly many-angled.— Wight ! cat. n. 430. 
~ + paniculata, Wall. ! n. 6022. a. (excl. ** C. paniculata”), b. j 
2 adopt the name V. tenuifolia, instead of V. paniculata given to this by 
allich, because the inflorescence is not panicled ; and because a speci- 
yen Which was mixed in the same sheet with V. tenuifolia, (both under 
Wall. L. n. 6022. a), and therefore most probably corresponding to Cissus 
Paniculata, Heyne, has cordate simple leaves, and appears a badly dried one 
of our V. pallida.—-The leaves turn black in drying. On the young shoots 
LJ are sometimes trifoliolate, the lateral leaflets being then more or less 
= which makes us Suspect, especially as Poiret had not seen either flow- 
wae fruit, that his Cissus acutifolia (DC. prod. 1. p. 630, Spr. syst. 1. p. 449,) 
Was a young shoot of F. tenuifolia. Our plant is very closely allied to Ci Ja- 
ponica, of w ich, however, the specimen now before us, from Canton in China, 
the leaflets much more obtuse, and the peduncles greatly longer. In cha- 
diana: also, C. serrulata, Roxb., so much approaches ours, that we had united 
em, bat Dr Wallich’s s, imens (List, n. 6034) do not turn black in drying, 
and have the lateral lea ets on much longer stalks. V. cymosa, Wall. L. n. 
D 17, has the foliage of ours, but the inflorescence is much larĝer. Whether 
Ye Candolle's C, nepalensis be referable to V. serrulata or V. cymosa, is not 
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