254 XLir. TITACE^. 



13. Vitis Rheedel, Wight ^ Am. Prodr. p. 127. Quite glabrous; 

 stem stout, cyliudric or tetragonous. Leaves variable, usu.ill}' 3-foliolate 

 (with very shortly stalked or sessile leaflets), sometitues 3-partite or 

 3-lobed or siuiple (often all 3 kiuds of leaves on oue and the same 

 plant) ; leaflets or sei^ments unequal, the middle one lanceolate, the 

 lateral ones very obliquely ovate or oblong, all acuminate or acute, 

 bristle-serrate, glabrous on both sides ; petioles 1-2 in. long ; stipules 

 ovate-orbicular. Flowers 4-merous, in subumbellate divaricate cymes 

 which are usually shorter than the petioles, numerous near the end 

 of the branch and the last cyme terminating it ; pedicels short. Calyx 

 saucer-shaped, subtruncate. Petals 4, free. Style long. Berry | in. 

 long, obovoid, 1-seeded, black. Seed g-y\ in. iu diam., girt with a ring 

 round the middle, smooth, yellowish-white. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 653 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 1, p. 293 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 55. Cissiis ir'dobata. 

 Lam. Encyc' V. 1, p. 31 ; Grab. Cat. p. 33 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 39 ; Planch, 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, p. 503. 



KoNKAN : ex Dabell ^- Gibson 1. c. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



14. Vitis setosa, Wall. Cat. (1828) 6009. Whole plant clothed 

 with scattered glandular bristly hairs ; stem herbaceous, prostrate, weak, 

 succulent, striate and sulcate ; tendrils leaf-opposed, forked, long. 

 Leaves succulent, sessile, 3-foliolate (the lower sometimes simple); 

 leaflets subfleshy, 2-3 by lg-2 in., shortly petiohiled (the petiolule of the 

 terminal leaflet the longest), elliptic or obovate-oblong, obtuse, irregularly 

 bristle-toothed or laciniate, glabrous or nearly so above, glandular-hispid 

 on the nerves beneath, pale green ; stipules broadly ovate, acute. 

 Flowers jtt in. long, contracted in the middle, arranged in leaf-opposed 

 or apparently terminal dichotomous or trichotomous lax divaricate gland- 

 ular cymes ; peduncles 1.4-3 iu. long, glandular-hispid; pedicels short. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, subtruncate. Petals hooded at the apex, ultimately 

 reflexed. Style subulate. Berry ^-y^ in. in diam., ovoid, glandular- 

 hispid, scarlet. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 654; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 296; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 65; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. INat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 271 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, 'p. 257. Cissus setosa, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. V. 1, p. 410; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 41 ; Planch, in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, p. 608. Vebn. Khdjagolicha-vel. 



Planchon is, I think, in error in calling the cymes axillary. 



Deccan : Woodrow ! ; Alandi, near Poona, BJdva ! ; Poona districts, Cooke ! ; 

 about Junnar, Dahell ^- Gibson. S. M. Countuy : Kuput Iiills of Dliarwar iu dry rocky 

 situations, Talbot. — DisTiun. India (\V. IVninsula) ; Cevlon. 



Every part of the plant is acrid. It lias some repute in native medicine, being used 

 to promote supjjuration and assist iu the extraction of Guinea-worms. — See Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



15. Vitis trifolia, Linn. S p. I'l. (1753) p. 203. Scandent ; stems 

 herbaceous or woody at the base only, compressed, densely pubescent 

 when vouiifr; tendrils short, slender, usually branched. Leaves 

 3-foliolate ; common petioles .^-1| in. long ; leaflets thick, U-2i by ^-1-L 

 (the middle one the largest), rotund-ovate, ovate-lanceolate or obovate, 

 acute or obtuse, crenate serrate or subinciso-dentate, more or less 

 pubescent on both surfaces ; main nerves 5-6 pairs ; jieliolules of the 

 lateral leaflets ^-7^ in. long, those of the terminal leaflets twice as long; 

 stipules small, ovate, acute. Flowers in branched divaricate pubescent 



