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XLI. AMPELIDEiE. 



[Vitis. 



I or 2 in a cell. Berry i- to 6-celled. Seed often rugose. About 

 400 species, whole world. 



Climbers with tendrils; ovary cells 2-ovuled. 



Flowers spicate or cymose ; rachis subteretc . .1. Vitis 



Flowers on a broad red flattened rachis . . .2. Pterisanthes 



Erect, bushy shrubs; ovary cells i-ovuled . . • 3- Leea 



1. VITIS, Linn. 



Climbing shrubs with tendrils. Leaves simple, trifoliate to 

 g-foliate, rarely pinnate. Flowers in umbellate cymes, or racemes, 

 or spikes. Calyx entire or 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 

 4 or 5. Ovary 2- rarely 3- or 4-celled; ovules 2 in a cell; style 

 short or o. Berry ovoid or globose ; cells i- or 2-seeded. About 

 375 species, in tropics of Asia, Africa, Polynesia, rare in America. 

 This genus is often broken up into 3 or 4, which I prefer to keep 

 as sections merely, as do Hooker and King. 



i. Ampelocissus. Flowers 4- to 5-merous; disc annular adherent to 

 base of ovary ; style conic ; stigma minute ; inflorescence thyrsoid or a 

 panicle or spike of spikes pendent and usually red-hairy. 



Inflorescence thyrsoid. 



Stems bristly hairy . , . . . (i) V. Martini 



Stems woolly tomentose . . . . (2) V. Harmandi 



Inflorescence a panicle of very long racemes of 

 flowers in clusters ; leaves simple entirely 

 glabrous ...... 



Inflorescence a long raceme of short spikes. 

 Leaves simple. 

 Leaves 3 by 2 in. sparsely pubescent beneath (4) 

 Leaves 2 to 4 in. long red floccose beneath. 

 Leaves 5 by 5*5 in., thickly red-tomentose 

 beneath (some leaves trilobed) . 

 Leaves 3- to 5-lobed always, densely red- 

 hairy beneath; leaflets sub-coriaceous, 

 very shortly petioluled 

 Leaflets 4 or 5 red-tomentose beneath; 



petiolules i in. long . . . . (8) 



Leaflets large long-petioluled, all glabrous . (9) 



ii. Tetrastigma. Flowers 4-merous expanding, disc adherent to base of 

 ovary ; style very short ; stigma large lobed ; cymes axillary corymbose 

 erect. Whole plant glabrous and usually very large, woody-stemmed. 



Leaves simple . . . . . . (10) V. Scortechinii 



Leaves trifoliate ; corymbs lax. 



Leaflets broad ovate ; corymbs large spreading ; 



fruit small red . . . . . (11) 



Corymbs slender much branched ; flowers 



very small . . . . . (12) 



Corymbs very short, few branched 2 in. or 

 less across. 

 Leaves stiff; cymes sub-sessile; fruit "5 in. 



through, yellow (13) V. Lawsoni 



thin ; cymes slender peduncled. 



(3) V. macrostachya 



V. gracilis 



(5) V. floccosa 



(6) V. cinnamomea 



(7) V. elegans 



V. compositifolia 

 V. polystachya 



V. peduncularis 

 V. Curtisii 



Leaves 



few-branched under 

 red '25 in. long 



I in. across; 



fruit 



(14) V. Wrayi 



