296 Ampelidea:. {litis. 



Low country in both moist and dry regions ; probably common. 

 Hevvahetta ; Nitre Cave Uist. Fl. Aug., Sept. 



Also in South India and China. 



Thwaites does not distinguish this from C. pcdata^ and it is difficult to 

 find good characters to separate them ; though in Fl. B. Ind. they stand 

 in different sections of the genus. 



18. V. setosa, Wall. Cat. 6009 (1828). Anaittadichchal, T. 



Cissus Sitosa, Roxb., Thw. Enum. 63, Planch. 1. c. 608. C. P. 11 79. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 654. Wight, Ic. t. 170. 



Stems prostrate, weak, branched, succulent, zigzag, striate, 

 hispid with glandular hairs, tendrils long, forked ; 1. 3-folio- 

 late (rarely simple), sessile, Iflts. shortly stalked, obovate- 

 oblong, cuneate at base, obtuse, irregularly toothed or laciniate, 

 succulent, glabrous above, glandular hispid on the veins 

 beneath, pale green, the central one narrower and on longer 

 stalk, stip. broad-ovate, acute ; fl. small, on long glandular 

 pcd., cymes terminating lateral branches, dichotomous, lax, 

 divaricate, peduncle li— 4in. long, glandular-hispid; cal. loose, 

 truncate ; pet. contracted in the middle, hooded, ultimately 

 reflexed ; berry over | in., ovoid, strongly glandular-hispid, 

 scarlet. 



Desert districts ; rather common. Jaffna, abundant ; Puttalam 

 (Nevill) ; Hambantota, Kirinda, &:c., abundant ; Alatalan, N. Prov. 

 (Nevill) ; iMannar. Fl. Nov., Dec. 



Also in Southern India. 



This is the only species we have of Planchon's large section Cypho- 

 stennna, which is mostly African. The scarlet hispid fruit is acid at 

 first taste, but afterwards very burning and acrid. 



Planchon says the cymes are axillary ; in appearance they are usually 

 terminal, and certainly sometimes leaf-opposed. 



19. V. lanceolaria, Wall. Cat. 6013 (1828). 



Cissus lauceolaria, Roxb. Thw. Enum. 63. Teirastigma lanccolaiitiin, 

 Planch. 1. c. 423. C. P. 3597. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 660. Wight, Ic. tt. 28 C?), 177 {6), and 740 {V. muricata). 



Stems woody below, cylindrical or somewhat compressed, 

 glabrous, with copious brown Icnticcls, young parts quite 

 glabrous, tendrils long, very slender, simple ; 1. 3-foliolate, 

 the lat. Iflts. often pedately 2-foliolate, })ctiole about i in., 

 Iflts. shortly stalked, lanceolate or oval, acute or tapering at 

 both ends, coarsely and irregularly serrate, glabrous, thick, 

 dark green, stip. lanceolate, acute, membranous; fl. dioecious, 

 male cymes lax, paniculate, longer than petiole, female cymes 

 denser, corymbose, shorter than petiole, all axillary, at first 

 covered with short tomentose i)ubesccnce; pet. acute, thickened 

 at apex ; style very short, stigma large, dilated, 4-lobcd ; 



