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(scarcely wings) which are rounded at top and bottom. Fl. B. I. v. 1, 

 p. 643 i Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 286; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 53. 

 G. leptostachya, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 50 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 53 {not 

 of DC.).— Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : stocks ! ; Wari, Dahell, 1(584 ! ; Banda, Dalzell cf- Gibson. S. M. Country : 

 Earaghat, Ritchie, 1684! Kanara : very common on the N. Kanara Ghats, Talbot; 

 Divimana (N. Kauara), Woodrowl; Supa, Ritchie, 1G84 I ; Kumpta, Cooke\ — Distrib. 

 India (W. Peninsula) ; Cejlon, Java. 



Order XLII. VITACE^, Lindl. 

 (AMPELIDE^, Endl. ; Hook. f. & Benth. Gen. PL) 



Small trees or shrubs whirh are usually climbers (except Leea) ; juice 

 copious, watery; stems and branches nodose. Leaves alternate (^the 

 lower sometimes opposite), simple or digitately or pedately 3-1 1-t'oliolute, 

 rarely pinnate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite (rarely unisexual), 

 u!-ually small, generally greenish, in cymes, racemes, panicles or thyrsi 

 usually opposite the leaves ; peduncles often transformed into simple or 

 compound tendrils. Calyx small, entire, or 4-5-toothed or -lobed. Petals 

 4-5, free or variously cohering, valvate, usually caducous. IStameus 4-5, 

 opposite to the peials, inserted at the base of the disk or between its 

 lobes ; filaments subulate. Anthers free or connate, short, 2-celled, 

 introrse. Disk between the stamens and ovary, various in form, free or 

 connate with the petals and stamens or the ovary, urceolate, annular or 

 widely expanded, rarely entirely confluent with the ovary. Ovary 

 usually sunk in the disk, 2-6-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, ascending, 

 anatropous ; raphe ventral ; style short, conical, subulate, or 0; stigma 

 capitate or discoid, sublobate. Fruit baccate, often watery, 1-6-celled ; 

 cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds erect, rugulose ; testa bony; embryo short, at 

 the base of cartilaginous (often ruminate) albumen; cotyledons oval; 

 radicle inferior. — Distrib. Throughout the tropical and temperate regions 

 of the whole world ; genera 3 ; species about 375. 



Shrubs, usually scandent and cirrhose ; stamens distinct, free ; ovary 



2-celled 1. Vitis. 



Erect shrubs, ecirrhose ; stamens connate with the disk ; ovary 3-6- 



celled 2. Leea. 



1. VITIS, Linn. 



Shrubs usually cirrhose, sarmentose, often climbing to a great height, 

 very rarely erect. Leaves simple or compound (very rarely 2-pinnate). 

 Flowers small, sometimes polygamous, umbellate, cymose, paniculate, 

 racemose or spicate ; peduncles leaf-opposed (very rarely axillary), usually 

 towards the ends of the branches. Calyx short, entire or 4-5-toothed 

 or -lobed. Petals 4-5, free or calyptrately cohering at the apex. Disk 

 various or obsolete. Stamens 4-5, inserted below the margin of the 

 disk ; anthers free. Ovary 2-celied (sometimes imperfectly), very rarely 

 3-4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style or short. Berry ovoid or 

 globose, 1-2-celled; cells 1-2-seeded. — Distrib. Chiefly Tropical and 

 Subtropical ; not common in Tropical America ; species about 320. 



