XLll. VITACE^. 2S1- 



terete, glabrous; tendrils bifid. Leaves 6-8 by 5-6 in., exactly cordate 

 with a deep sinus, long-acuminate and mucronate, glabrous above, sub- 

 tomentose beneath, bristle-crenate, 5-nerved from the base, much 

 reticulate ; petioles 2-5 in. long ; stipules glandular. Flowers minute, 

 green, cymose ; peduncles shorter than the petioles ; branches of the cymes 

 3-5, umbellate or bearing 2-3 umbellate branches at the apex. Fruit 

 not seen. Fl. B. I. v. ], p. 648. Cissus gigantea, Planch, in DC. 

 Monogr. Pban. v, 5, part 2, p. 622. — Flowers : Aug. 



There is but one specimen in Herb. Kew. communicated by Mr. Talbot. — It is 

 ■without fruit. Kanaka : Karwar, Talbot, 229 .', Woodrow. 



7. Vitis repanda, Wight Sf Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 125. Scandent ; 

 branches terete, covered with appressed rufous tomentum when young, 

 at length more or less glabrate ; tendrils forked or 0. Leaves 3-7 by 

 2-Q in. (the lower sometimes opposite), broadly ovate, cordate, acuminate, 

 coarsely crenate-dentate, inciso-serrate or sublobed, often repand, 

 densely tomentose when young, particularly on the underside, at length 

 glabrous above ; petioles l-3g in. long ; stipules oblong, rounded at the 

 apex. Peduncles leaf-opposed, solitary or sometimes 1-4, each bearing 

 1-4 compound umbellately branched cymes ; buds oblong-globose, hairy 

 at the tips. Calyx truncate, hairy outside. Petals 4, pink, triangular- 

 oblong, j'y in. long, free or scarcely cohering at the apex. Berry 

 pyriform, mucronate, 1-seeded. Seed obovoid, smooth. Fl. B. I. v. 1, 

 p. 648 (exclud. syn. Cissus vitiginea, L.) ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 292; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 55; AVoodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 271. Cissus rejyanda, Vahl, Symb. v. 3, p. 18; Grab. Cat. p. 32 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 39 ; Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, 

 p. 474, — Flowers : Mar.-Apr. Vern. Gendal. 



Common throughout the Presidency on the border of the heavy rainfall zone, 

 Talbot. KoNKAN : Law !, Stocks I ; Malabar Hill, Bombay, Graham ; Elephanta 

 Island, Graham. Deccan : Bowdhan Forest near Poona, Woodrow ! — Distrib. 

 Throughout India ; Ceylon. 



8. Vitis adnata, Wall. Cat. (1828) 5998. Scandent; stems and 

 inflorescence clothed with orange-red pubescence, at length glabrate ; 

 tendrils forked. Leaves 3-5 by 2-3^ in., broadly ovate, abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate or cuspidate, bristle-serrate, densely clothed with 

 orange-red pubescence beneath, pubescent (at length glabrate) above; 

 main nerves 4-5 pairs, prominent beneath ; petioles 1-3 in. long, pubes- 

 cent ; stipules suborbicular, hairy, caducous. Flowers greenish-yellow, in 

 much-branched peduncled compound umbellate cymes; buds oblong; 

 fruiting pedicels more or less recurved. Calyx truncate or obscurely 

 lobed. Petals 4, sometimes cohering at the apex and calyptrately 

 deciduous. Berry | in. in diam., obovoid or subglobose, glabrous, 

 apiculate, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, black when ripe. Seeds with angular 

 pits on the surface. Fl. B. I. v. 1 , p. 649 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 290 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 55 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 271 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 251. Cissus adnata, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1, p. 405 ; Wight, Icon. t. 144 ; Planch, in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, p. 494. — Flowers : Dec. 



Roxburgh (Z. c.) says that the stipules are adnate, but I have not 

 found them so, nor has Planchon (Monogr. 1. c). In Roxburgh's figure 



