202 XMl. TITACE.f:, 



(Icon. 17S7), which has been copied by Wight (Icon. 144), the stipules 

 are shown with a deep gi-een centre, which cannot be distinguished in 

 dried specimens. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! Deccan : Bowdhan near Poona, Woodrow, Bhiva ! Kanara : 

 Law\; moist forests near Goond (N. Kanara), Talbot. — Disteib. Throughout India; 

 Java, Borneo, Philippines, Ceylon. 



9. Vitis Linnsei, Wall. Cat. (1828) 5987. Scandent, clothed with 

 short grey or fulvous pubescence ; branches terete ; tendrils stout, 

 simple, woody, pubescent near the base, glabrous upwards. Leaves 

 2-5| by l|-5 in., rotund-ovate, cordate or truncate at the base, 

 shallowly or deeply palmately 3-5-lobed, sharply and irregularly dentate, 

 softly glandular-pubescent and grey beneath (generally like the leaves of 

 Malva) ; petioles g-lf in. long, pubescent; stipules membranous, ovate, 

 obtuse, pubescent outside. Flowers 4-merous, in pedunculate cymes of 

 5-6 unequal branches ; pedicels umbellate, slender, pubescent ; buds 

 oblong or subglobose, pubescent. Calyx truncate, pubescent outside. 

 Petals ^^ ,^^ in. long, pubescent outside, oblong, hooded, often calyp- 

 trately deciduous, usually free at the apex. Disk fleshy, 4-lobed. 

 Style as long as the ovary. Berry | in. long, pyriform, blue and with a 

 glaucous bloom on the surface, drooping, npiculate, l-«eeded. Seed 

 obovoid, rugulose. FL B. I. v. 1, p. 649 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. y. 1, p. 291 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 271 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 6, part 4, p. 255. Cissus vitiginea, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 117; 

 Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phan, v. 5, part 2, p. 472. — Flowers : Aug. 



There can be no doubt that this plant is the true Cissus vitiginea of 

 LinnjBus, the original type of his genus Cissus. Linnteus (Flor. Zeyl. 

 [1747] p. 24) describes the leaves as subrotund, obsoletely pentagonal 

 (as of Malva), tomentose, and the berry as blue, descriptions which 

 are quite characteristic, that which compares the leaves to those 

 of Malva especially so. In Amoon. Acad. ed. 1, v. 1 (1749) p. 390, 

 Linnaeus amplifies the description, and in Sp. PI. (1753) p. 117 he gives 

 the name G. vitiginea to the plant which he again describes therein. 



Deccan: near Wadi Station, Q-. I. P. Railway, Cookel S. M. Country: Budaini, 

 Woodrow l—lDiaiVim. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



10. Vitis tomentosa, Ilegne, in Roth, Nov. PI. iSp. (1821) p. 157. 

 Scandent; stems stout, covered with a dense reddish or white detergible 

 tomentum ; tendrils long, forked, woody. Leaves 4-8 in. long, as broad 

 as, or sometimes broader than long, palmately 3-5-angled, -lobed or 

 -partite, closely serrate-dentate, floccose with whitish cobwebby wool, 

 base cordate with a wide sinus, less commonly truncate ; petioles l|-3in. 

 long ; stipules short, truncate. Flowers 5-nierous, scarlet, small, sessile, 

 in shortly peduncled compact densely woolly cymes 1-2 in. long, at the 

 ends of stiff leaf-opposed peduncles; peduncles bearing a long 1-3- 

 forked tendril below the cyme ; buds broadly oblong, truncate, arane- 

 ously woolly. Calyx thin, membranous, woolly outside, covering over 

 the petals in bud, 5-lobed ; lobes short, triangular. Petals 5, ovate- 

 oblong, not cohering at the apex, glabrous. Ovary conical, lO-furrov^ed 

 at the apex ; style ; stigraa foveolate. Berry subglobose, ^ in. in diam., 

 2-3-8eeded. Seeds ovoid-oblong, coarsely and irregularly rugose. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 650 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 288 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 55; Waft, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 258. Ampdocissus 

 tomentosa, Planch, in Journ. Vigne Amer. (Dec. 1884) p. 375 & in 



