Viiis.'\ A^npelidecB. 289 



surrounded with rufous wool, on the thick, very woolly 

 branches of a paniculate cyme 3-4 in. long, on a peduncle 

 2-3 in., usually with a simple tendril below the cyme, buds 

 broadly oblong-ovoid ; stam. twice as long as ov. ; ov. flat on 

 top, lo-grooved; berry fin., oblong-ovoid, smooth, purple. 



Moist low country up to 2500 ft.; common. Fl. December. 



Also in Western Peninsular India. 



The fruit of this very much resembles that of the true grape-vine, 

 V. vinifera^ but is bitter in taste. 



Rheede's figure above quoted well represents our plant ; his t. 7 

 quoted for V. erioclada by W. & A. (followed by Lawson, who quotes 

 it again under V. latifolia, however) is another species with lobed leaves. 



The name V. mdica, L. is given in Fl. B. Ind. to a different species 

 (from South India) caWedAriipelocissusArnottzana by Planchon. Linnreus' 

 name has been used for other species also, but Hermann's specimens 

 conclusively show that Thwaites correctly applied it to the present one. 

 Though Planchon casually alludes to his Ampelocissiis erioclada (1. c. 

 pp. 380, 622), he appears to have accidentally omitted it altogether from 

 the body of his monograph. 



3. V. quadrang-ularis, Wall. Cat. n. 5992 (1828). Hiressa, S. 

 Pirandai, 71 



Cissus qiiadrangularis, L., Moon Cat. 11. Cissus edulis, Dalz., Thw. 

 Enum. 62. C. P. 11 74. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 645. Wight, Ic. t. 51. 



Stems very long, not woody, thick, sharply compressed, 

 quadrangular but scarcely winged, the sides concave, much 

 branched, jointed by contractions at the nodes, glabrous, 

 green, fleshy, the younger ones square on section and with 

 winged angles, tendrils long, slender, simple ; 1. distant, few, 

 1-2 in., broadly ovate or rotundate-deltoid, truncate at base, 

 very obtuse, distantly spinous-crenate, glabrous, thick, petiole 

 \-\ in., subquadrangular, stip. small, broadly oval, obtuse ; 

 fl. pedicellate, in small umbels on branches of a short, panicu- 

 late cyme; pet. ovate, acute; style short, blunt ; berry globose, 

 apiculate, red. 



Dry region ; very common. 



Also in India, Malay Peninsula, Java, and Trop. Africa. 

 The stems are often leafless and extend to a very great length over 

 trees and bushes. They are an article of food both fried and curried. 



4. V. grlyptocarpa, Laws. Fl. B. hid. i. 645 (1875). 



Cissus qlyptocarpa, Thw. Enum. 62 ; Planch. \. c. 501. C. P. 1183. 

 Fl. B. ind. i. 645. 



Stems slender, herbaceous, strongly 4-winged, glabrous, 

 tendrils slender, bifid ; 1. 2-3 in., ovate, very broad and trun- 

 cate or subcordate at base, acuminate^ acute, distantly and 

 shallowly spinous-serrate, glabrous and shining, dotted (when 



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