38. J MPBLIBACBM. [ 1. Vitis. 



Shoots covered with a dense cottony torn entrain. L. with a dense brown 

 tomentum beneath, very deeply cordate with rounded basal lobes, serrate 

 or serrulate. Petioles 3-6'.'. Fls. sessile red in divaricate cymes on a 

 peduncle under 1" long which again is borne together with a tendril on a 

 common woody peduncle 3-6'' long. Pet. free. Berry black |* diam. 



5- V- trifolia, L. (Syn. V. carnosa, Wall.) 

 An herbaceous climber with succulent compressed stems 

 springing from a stout perennial rootstock, with 3 foliolate 

 leaves, crenate leaflets and small greenish flowers in lax 

 divaricate long-peduncled cymes. 



On trees, or adhering to rocks by the tips of the tendrils, in valley 

 in Singbhum and Palamau. Lohardaga, Gamble ! Not common Paras- 

 nath, Anderson. 



Fl. June- July. Fr. Nov.-Dec. The stems die down in Jany. and 



Feby. 



B'ems weak or 1" diam. with a corky bark, branches brittle, voung striate 

 pubescent. Ljlts., terminal elliptic or obovaie coarsely crenate and denti- 

 cula: i attaining V rarely 4 7 by 2%'' shortly pubescent, lateral usually 

 broadly ovate and somewhat cordate at base. Petiole fleshy £-4''. Ten- 

 drils slender branched, often tipped with sucker discs. Petals white 

 saccate at tip. Disc surrounding the whole ovary except the conical tip, 

 4-lobed. Berries black, depressed globose, ^''rJiam. 2- seeded. 



6. V« aiiriculata, Roxb. Baiang, K.; Amar-lata, Kharw. 



A large sub-succulent climber with digitate 5-foliolata 



leaves, leng-petioluled crenate-scrrate leaflets, and large 



divaricating cymes on long succulent peduncles, with or 



without a tendril. Fruit the size of a cherry, red when ripe. 



Valleys, usually near watercourses in Singbhum ; Mata in Manbhum, 

 Wood.; Koderma, Haslett ! Talamau. Fl. r. s Ft. Oct -Dec. Perennial? 

 The fruit is said to be eaten. 



Young parts pubescent. L. with a petiole 4-7" long and with auricu- 

 late stipules. Ljlts. broadly elliptic to obovate 2-5"' shortly acuminate 

 with petiolules \-2" long. Tendrils 2-3 fid. Seed 1; 



7. V. lanceolaria, Wall. 



An extensive climber with pedately 5-foliolate somewhat 

 fleshy leaves, large coarsely crenate- serrate elliptic leaflets 

 and small very shortly peduncled cymes of small yellowish 

 flowers, 



Parasnath, Prain.; Santal P. .near Sahebganj. Fls. Jany .'March. 



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