448 XXXVII, AMPELIDE.^. [VUlS. 



cymes, the buds about 1 line diameter. Petals 4, usually cohering at the top 

 and falling off together. Style subulate. Berries obovoid-globiilar. — Bentb. 

 FL Ilongk. 54 ; Clssiis cordata, Eoxb, Fl. Ind. 1.407 ; Vitis cardiopliylla, Y. 

 MuelL Fragm. ii. 73. 



N. Australia. N, coast, U. Brown. 



Queensland. Barnard Islands, M'GilHvrai/ ; Burdekin river, F, Mueller; Rock- 

 hampton, Thozet. Coiumou ia the Archipelago and Eubteru ludiaj cxteudiug nortlnvard to 

 Sikkiui and Hongkong. 



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4. V. adnata, WalL; Wight and Am, Prod, 126 (with the synonyms 

 adduced). Young shoots and under side of the leaves more or less covered 

 with a short tomentum, wliich sometimes- disappears with age. Leaves pe- 

 tiolate, broadly cordate, almost orbicular, acuminate, 3 to 6 in. diameter, 

 bordered with small bristle-like teeth, 5-nerved and pcnniveined, the primary 

 veins connected by transverse veinlets. Flowers scarcely -| line diameter, 

 numerous in corymbose cymes. Petals 4, cohering by the tips and falling 

 off together. Style shortly subulate, at least in the fertile flowers. Fruit 

 globular, small. — C'issks adnata, lioxb. j Wight, Ic. t. 144. 



N. Australia. N. coast, R, Brown ; Sea Eau^e, very rare, F, Mueller. Coramoa 

 in East India. 



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5. V. nitenSy F. MuelL Fragm. ii. 73. Quite glabrous. Leaflets 3, 

 ovate or oval-oblong, acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, remotely toothed, 

 narrowed at the base, the lateral ones scarcely oblique, on short petiolules, 

 rather tirm, smooth and shining above. Umbel-like eymes almost glabrous, 

 dense and nearly globular, 2 or 3 together or solitary on aveiy short common 

 peduncle, the pedicels very sliort. Flower-buds ovoid, rather more than 1 

 line long. Petals 4 or rarely 5, oblong, falling off separately. Disk incon- 

 spicuous. Style very short and thick, with a broad, flat, almost fringed, 

 slightly 2-lobed stigma. Berry ovoid. 



Queensland. E. coast, R. Brown ; Dawson and Bm-nett rivers, F. Mueller ; Brisbane 

 river, Fraser, F. Mueller. 



N. S. MTales. Clarence, Macleayj and Hastings rivers, Beckler ; Hunter's River, 

 R, Browriy F. Mueller, 



6. V. saponaria, Seem. Sgst. lid Fit, PL 4. Young leaves and shoots 

 and inflorescence minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaflets 3, very broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, entire or crenate, attaining 4 to 6 in., thin and glabrous when fulU 

 grown, penniveined and more or less distinctly 5-ncrved at the base, espe- 

 cially the lateral ones, with transverse veinlets, the central one rounded at the 

 base, the lateral ones obliquely cordate. Cymes loose, divaricate, many- 

 flowered, on long peduncles. Flowers nearly globidar, above 1 line diameter. 

 Petals 4, usually falling off together. Disk broad. Style conical. Berry 

 depressed-glob ular. 



Queensland. Torres Straits, K Brown; Cape York and Piper's Island, M' GiUitray * 

 Also in the Fiji Islands^ where, accordin^c to Seemannj the stems are used in washing linen. 

 A. Gray in But. Anier. Exjd. Exi)ed. i. 272, had referred this plant with doubt to assus 

 gevicnlatay Bl., and perhaps correctly so, for althongh Blmne describes the central leaflet as 

 oblong-laneeolate, yet he mentions a broad-leaved variety, but with more pubescent leaves. 

 All are closely allied to the comnjon E. Indian V. pedida, Wall., and may be a 3-foliolat« 

 variety of that very variable species. 



