VITACE^ '27 



Nilgiris ; near Kotagiri, etc., at about 5,500 feet. Fyson 

 6225. 



Gen. DisL In dry deciduous and scrub forest, in Northern Circars, 

 Deccan and Carnatic. Eastern slopes of Western Ghats. 



VITACE/E. 



See AMPELIDACE^, Vol. I p. 86. 



As indicated on page 87 the genus VITIS has now 

 been split up to smaller genera. Of these we have : 



Lfs. 3 only, petals 5, seeds smooth . . . parthenocissus. 

 Leaflets 3 or 5, pedate ; petals 4 ; stigma four-Iobed . . . 



TETR.a STIGMA. 



Leaflets 7 or 9, pedate ; stigma obscure . . . cayratia. 



TETRASTIGMA. 



Climbers with simple or forked tendrils, leaves usually 

 five-foliate, pedate, but also with 3 or I leaflet only. 

 Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Petals 4, spreading. 

 Stigma four-lobed. Seeds globose with two furrows on 

 face and a prominent chalaza on the back. 



Tetrastigma muricatum Gamble ; F.B.I, i 660, as Vitis 

 lanceolaria in part. Stem warty. Leaves usually three- 

 foliate, sometimes with five leaflets ; leaflets acute, 

 glabrous, serrate. Seeds pyriform with shallow grooves 

 on the face and oblong chalaza. t. 307. Wt. Ic. 177. 



Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, below 6,000 feet common. Fyson 

 1188, 2433, 4114, 6399. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats. 



PARTHENOCISSUS. 



Climbing shrubs with much branched tendrils opposite 

 the leaves, which attach themselves by discs. Leaves 

 three-foliate. Petals 5. Seeds globose with narrow raphe 

 half round it. 



Parthenocissus neilghercnsis Planch. ; given in 

 Vol. I p. 87, and II t. 67, as Vitis anamalayana Bedd. 



