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^^'^^'^■J XXXVII. AMPELIDEJB. 447 



) leajlets 5 to 9, pedate. 



Leaflets small, ovate, acuminate, deeply toothed. Disk very promi- 



»Gnt 9. r. clemalidea. 



I Leaflets 2 to 3 in. long, oblong or cuneate, miuutely and remotely 



serrate or entire. Disk inconspicuous 10. T. aceU)m. 



leaflets 5, rareli/ 3, digitate. 



Leatlets obtuse at the base, on a distinct slender pctiolule, coriaceous, 



and very retieubte 11. V. hi/pofflauca. 



i^eariets narrowed into a very sbort petiolule or sessile. 



Leaflets very coriaceous. Berries ovoid 12. T. stercuIifoUa. 



Leaflets membranous. Berries globular. 

 Leaflets linear-cnncate to oblong or obovate. Cymes loose . . 13. V, opaca. 

 Leaflets nanow-lincar, rarely broad and acuminate. Cymes 



compact , 14. V^angiistisslma, 



-I" "• antarctica, BentJi, Young slioots more or less clotlied with 

 Snort rust-coloured hairs^ rarely entirely glabrous. Leaves simple, petiolate, 

 ovate or oblong, mostly acuminate and slightly cordate, 3 to 4 in. long and 

 I2 to 2 m. broad, entire, sinuate or irregularly toothed, rather firm or almost 

 conaceous, penniveined and obscurely 3 -nerved, with glands on the under 

 in the axils of some of the principal veins. Cymes dense, broadly 



the buds 



side 



S> 



f'orymbose, shorter than the petioles. Flowers tomentosc-pubescent, tl 

 nearly globular, under 1 line diameter. Petals 4, separately deciduous. Disk 

 prominent, undulate, obscurely 44obed. Style shortly conical. Berry glo- 

 bubir.-^em,,5 antarcUca,\mi, Choix, t. 21; DC. Prod. ii. 639 ; Bot. Mag. 

 ^' 2488 ; a (jlandulosa, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 105, 



Queensland, ErisLanc river, Moretoa Bay, F. 3Iueller. 

 ir * S- Whales- Port Jaelc'^oTij R. Broton, and others; northward to Hastings and 

 jJ^^y^y^'^'^^^^^Brc/cter; New Euii;laiid, C. Stuart; soutliward to lUawarra, 4. Cmmingham, 

 to ) * ^^^^^^^^^'- The specitic name, although inappropriate, is too geucrally sanctioned by use 



*. V, oblonga, Benth. A small busliy tree (according to Henne's 

 ^otes, but B. Brown's specimens Lave tendrils), quite glabrous or the young 

 snoots miiuitely rusty-tomentose, the branches rigid and flexuose. Leaves 

 petiolate, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, \\ to 2^ in. lon^, 

 ^uite entire, firm but thinner than in C, antarctica, very finely penniveined 

 I^M obscurely 3-nerved, with 2 large glands nnderneatli in the axils of the 

 /"iteral nerves. Flowers not seen. Fruiting cymes on short peduncles, bear- 

 ^i^g few obovoid berries. 



Vueensland. E. coast, R, Brown ; Curtis Island, Ilenne, On some cymes the berries 

 Ic'f-*^^ 1 ^^^ by ^ monstrous growth of dichotoiuous hrauehes covered with small^ hroad, 

 ** ^ ^^^^> forniitig dense glohular tufts of 3 or 4 in. diameter, hke those often observed ou 

 th \ ^^^' Although I have secu no flowers, the inflorescence, fruits, and seeds, as well as 

 v^ ., ^^^^^cy to articulation of the smaller branches, leave uo donbt of the species belonging 

 to the present gepus. 



^ 3. V. cordata, TFall. Catal. w. 6008 (partly). Very glabrous and often 

 ^omewhat glaueous in all its parts, the young stems succulent and disarticulatin*? 

 ^ the dried specimens. Leaves on rather long petioles, broadly cordate, 2^ 

 nearly 4 in. long and nearly as broad, entire, except small, almost bristle- 

 , *^ distant teeth, 5 -nerved, the smaller veins reticulate, very few or none, 

 iansverse, and faintly conspicuous. Flowers in corymbose trichotomous 



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