564 BVRJfA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



not having seen the female flowers, I hesitate to pronounce its identity with that 

 species. Lawson confidently reduces C.feminea to a synonym of V. lanceolaria, but 

 the digitate leaves alone forbid a comparison with it (Kurz). 



° ° Leaves simple or' very rarely {in V. Anamallayana) the uppermost ones 

 3-foliolate. Cymes leaf-opposite [except in V. Walliclni). 



X Branches and hranchlets cornered, sometimes almost icinyed and fleshy. 

 V. auADEANGTJLAEis, L. Waste spots and dry forests in Ava and Prome 



Branchlets very fleshy, 4-cornered, jointed. Leaves small, fleshy, bluntish 

 crenate. Cymes simple. 



Y. PEN'TAGoxA, Yoigt. Cliittagong. Arakan. Pegu Range. Andamans. 



Branchlets bluntish 5-angular, thick and glossy. Leaves remotely bristly toothed, 

 long-petioled. 



V. niscoLOE, Dalz. var. o Tropical forests and bamboo-jungles of Arakan, 



Cissus relutinm, Linden. Tenasserim, and the Andamans. var. ji in tlio 



Martaban Hills, East of Toung-ngoo. 



Branchlets sharply 6-coi'nered. Leaves bristly serrate, herbaceous. Cymes 

 compound. Seeds obliquely obovate, transversely wrinkled on the faces. 



var. a discolor. Leaves usually spotted, purplish beneath, on very long petioles 

 (at least the lower ones). Cymes poduncled. 



var. ft sessilis, Mir[. Cymes sessile and umbellately branched from the base. 

 V. cosiATA, Wall. Arakan and Pegu. 



As preceding. Leaves shorter pctioled, while young appressed hairy on the 

 nerves beneath. Seeds smooth, obovate. 



X X Branches and hranchlets terete or nearly so. 

 f Cymes axillary. Branchlets angular ? 

 V. (Leea) coedata, Wall. 



Near to V. pallida, W. A., but distinguished by its axillary cymes. 

 V. Wallichii, Kz. (non DC). Ava (' ili-a-noung'). 



Leaves 3-lobed, ghdjrous, sappy membranous, large. Seeds globose, smooth. 



f f Cymes leaf-opposed. 



V. (Cissus) EEPEXs, Lamk. Tropical forests of Chittagong, Burma, the 



V. glaiica, Roxb. Andamans and Kamorta. 



Cisstis Blumeana, Steud. 

 C. cerifera, T. et B. 



Branchlets terete, whitish pruinous. All parts glabrous. Seeds smooth. 



V. (Cissus) adi-'ata, Eoxb. var. « rare in hill-toungyas of Martaban at 3000- 



4000 feet; var. /3 in all leaf-shedding forests 

 and shrubberies, especially aluug chouugs, all 

 over Burma. 



All parts, especially while young, rusty tomentose, more or less glabrescent. 

 Leaves shai'jily acuminate, never lobed. Seeds obovate, shallowly laeunose. 



var. n yhihrior, Miq. All parts more glabrous, leaves only along the nerves 

 beneath pubesoout. 



var. ji conimiDiis. All parts more or less rusty tomentose. Leaves above 

 glabrous or puberulous. beneath wholly or only along the nerves tomentose. 



V. (Cissu.s) viTiGiXEA, L. Mixed and open forests, shrubberies and gi-ass 



v. Linnai, Kz. (non Wall.). jungles, all over Burma; var. riparia, Wall., at 

 K repanda, W. \. Car Kicobar. 



Yiu-uouug-uwcb (^Kur/). 



