Viiis.] A77ipelidecB. 295 



large, | in. long, ovate-ovoid, blunt, pinkish-cream-coloured, 

 pendulous; seeds oblong, smooth. 



Moist low country ; rare. Ambagamuwa ; Pasdun Korale ; Kottawa, 

 S. Prov. Fl. March, April ; white. 



Endemic. A very distinct species. Specimens under this same C. P. 

 number (in Hb. Perad.), with narrower Iflts. pubescent beneath, are 

 probably a different species. 



Thwaites' specific name has clear claim to retention, as Blume's C. 

 reticulata was only in MS. till printed in Planchon's Monograph. 



16. V. pedata, VaJil. ex Wall. Cat. n. 6027 (1828). m^diya- 

 wel, S. 



Cissus pedata, Lam., Moon Cat. 1 1. Thw. Enum. 63 ; Planch. 1. c. 558. 

 C. P. 1 175. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 661. 



Stems weak, cylindrical, striate, usually covered with short 

 pubescence mixed with longer brown spreading hairs, tendrils 

 long, forked, very slender, young parts tomentose ; 1. large, 

 3-foliolate, the lateral Iflts. usually pedately compound, petiole 

 2-3 in., pubescent and hairy like the stem, cent. Iflt. long- 

 stalked, lat. Iflts. shortly stalked, rarely simple, usually divided 

 into 2, 3, or 4 Iflts., which are unequal, nearly sessile or shortly 

 stalked, all Iflts. acute and often oblique at base, shortly 

 acuminate, acute, coarsely and shallowly repand - dentate, 

 more or less pubescent on both sides, especially beneath ; 

 fl. on short pubescent ped., cyme corymbose, shortly pedun- 

 culate, dichotomous, lax, .spreading, axillary, shorter or longer 

 than petiole ; cal. very shallow ; pet. usually 4 (rarely 5), 

 hooded and slightly coherent at top, pubescent outside, soon 

 falling ; berry \ in., depressed - globose, cream - coloured, 

 2-4-seeded ; seed semi-globose, smooth. 



Low country, in both regions ; very common. Fl. July ; white. 

 Found throughout Tropical Asia. 



17. V. tenuifolia, W. and A. Prod. 129 (1834). 

 Cz'ssus tenui/olia, Heyne, Planch. 1. c. 563. C. P. 2725. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 660 (not given for Ceylon). 



Stems slender, striate, quite glabrous, tendrils forked ; 

 1. 3-foliolate, the lat. Iflts. usually pedately compound with 

 2 or 3 distinct Iflts., petiole i-|-2| in., all Iflts. stalked Tthe 

 central stalk the longest), lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 acuminate, shallowly repand-serrate, quite glabrous, thin ; 

 cymes axillary, dichotomously branched, lax, divaricate, 

 longer or shorter than petiole, glabrous or nearly so ; berry 

 f-| in., depressed-globose, cream-coloured, 1-4-seeded ; seed 

 Semi-globose, very convex on back, flat on face, smooth. 



