1. Vitis.] 38. AMPELIDACEJE. 



The localities given above by Campbell and Anderson, as well as 

 Campbell's note on the root and fibre (which also apply to V. repanda), 

 all refer in the original to V adnata. On the grounds that I have never 

 Been specimens of V. adnata from Chota Nagpur, nor does Col. Prain in 

 " Bengal Plants " give Chota Nagpur as a locality, I have, perhaps wrongly, 

 applied the references to V. repanda. 



2- V. lanata, Roxb. Kolo-nari, 8, 

 A large climber with simple cordate serrate membranous 

 leaves wooly beneath, small green Bowers in thyrsoid pani- 

 culate cymes and round purple berries the size of a pea. 

 Tundi Hills, Campbell. 



L. cordate-ovate shortly acuminate 3-6" by 4f-3". Peduncle with a 

 simple or forked tendril. Petals green calyptrate. 



3* V. latifolia, Roxb. Oteron, K. ; I'c-ewer, 8.; 

 Khopri, Kharw. ; Govila, Beng. 



An extensive but scarcely woody climber, glabrous, or 

 nearly so, everywhere except the rachis of the inflorescence, 

 with simple palmately-lobed leaves 4-8" long and broad, deep 

 brown-red flowers and black succulent berries. 



Ver-7 common especially in low scrub jungles in Singbhum, Manbhum, 

 Hazaribagh and Pala.mau. Probably throughout Chota Nagpur. Fl. June- 

 July. Pr. Sept.-Od. The stems die down annually to the perennial 

 rootstock which sends out long bare shoots ir May and June sometimes 

 to a height of 10 ft. before the leaves expand, and it flowers before the 

 leaves are fully developed. 



t New Ptems glaucous or quite blue, hollow and often producing the 

 inflorescence before the leaves. L. 3-7-angled or lobed mealy when very 

 young, cordate or retuse at the base, lobes crenate-serrulate or dentate, 

 Fls. rarely 4-merous in pyramidal panieled cymes borne on a very stout 

 peduncle together with a forked tendril. Petals V' small oblong red 

 expanding, saccate at the apex. Disc prominent lobed becoming adnate 

 and often showing as a ring on the fruit- Style 0. Berry |* diam., 

 sweet and iuicy. 



4. V tomentosa, Eeyne. Oteron, K. ; Gbora-lidi, 8. 



A climber with the same habit as the last, but densely 

 tomentose and with 3-5-lobed leaves often attaining 10" both 

 ways. 



In similar situations to the last and nearly as common. PI. July-Sept. 

 Fr. Sept-Nov. 



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