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long-pecluncled cymes ; buds globose ; pedicels about | in. long. Calyx 

 pubescent outside, funnel-sbaped, truncate or obscurely 4-lobed. 

 Petals 4, oblong, rounded at the apex, jL in. long, hooded, pubescent 

 outside. Disk cup-shaped with a plicate margin. Style conical. Berry 

 turbinate, fleshy, 2-| in. long, 2-4-seeded. Seeds triangular, rounded 

 and rugose on the back, cuneate on the face. King, in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. V. Go (1897) p. 402. ViHs carmsa, Wall. Cat. G018 ; Laws, in 

 El. 13. I. V. 1, p. 654 {exclud. syn. Cissus auriculata, Roxh.) ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 1, p. 294; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 56; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 271 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 252. 

 Cissus carnosa. Lam. Encyc. v. 1, p. 31 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1, p. 409 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 33 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 40 ; Planch, in DO. Monogr. Phan. 

 V. 5, part 2, p. 570. — Flowers : Aug. Vern. A'mbat-vel. 



There is no doubt as to the identity of this plant with Vitis trifoUa, 

 Linn. That Linnaeus included under the genus Vitis a plant with 

 4-merous flowers is easily accounted for by the fact that he never saw 

 the plant. There is no specimen in the Linnean Herbarium in the 

 Linnean Society, and Linnaeus merely copied a portion of the very 

 meagre description given by Ray, Hist. PI. v. 3 (1704) lib. 28, p. 68, 

 who calls the plant Vitis pearmedoorica, a synonym quoted by Linnaeus. 

 Kay, however, merely quotes Pettiver, who first described the plant in 

 Phil. Trans, v. 22 (1700-1701) p. 707. I have personally examined 

 Pettiver's actual specimens which are in the British Museum. Eheede 

 (Hort. Mai. v. 7, t. 9) gives a good figure of the plant. 



KoNKAN : Ghfits, Talbot. Deccan : widely, Woodroiv ; Bhaclgaon near Poona, 

 Bhival; below Mahableshwar, Cooke I; hills near Bowdhan (Poona district), Wood- 

 row ! S. M. Country : Badami, Woodrow ! ; common in the Dharwar district border- 

 ing on N. Kanara, Talhot. Kanaka: Ghats of N. Kauara, Talhot. — Distiub. 

 Tiiroughout India ; Ceylon, Malacca. 



16. Vitis canarensis, Dalz. in Hook. Keiv Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) 

 p. 123. Whole plant except the inflorescence at length glabrous ; 

 branches terete, striate. Leaves 3-folioIate, long-petioled ; leaflets 3-4 

 by 1 2-2g in., elliptic-obovate or lanceolate, suddenly and shortly acu- 

 minate, pubescent on both surfaces, at length glabrous, distantly serrate, 

 reticulately veined, base inequilateral, somewhat cuneate ; petiolules of 

 the lower leaflets g in. long, those of the terminal leaflets twice as long. 

 Flowers in axillary or leaf-opposed puberulous cymes ; peduncles shorter 

 than the petioles. Calyx small, truncate or obscurely lobed. Petals 4, 

 oblong, subacute, hooded at the apex, y^-yo- in. long, faintly puberulous 

 outside. Style short; stigma acute. Berry -yg- in. in diam., globose, 

 almost smooth, yellow, afterwards turning red, dry, 1-seeded. Seeds 

 \ in. long, ellipsoid or subglobose, smooth, speckled and faintly trans- 

 versely striate. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 655 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 56. 

 Cissus cannrends, Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, p. 020. — 

 Flowers : Apr. 



Kanaka : Supa Gbats of N. Kanara in evergreen forests, common, Talbot ; Kanara, 

 Dalzelll ; Ainslai (N. Kanara), Talbot, 2700!— Distrib. Apparently endemic. 



17. Vitis araneosa, Laws, in Hoolc. f. Fl. B. I, v. 1 (1875) p. 657. 

 Scandent, the whole plant covered with floccose down which is deciduous 

 except on the underside of the leaves ; tendrils forked. Leaves 3-folio- 

 late, ultimately glabrous above, clothed beneath with persistent floccose 



