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down, the common petiole 1-2| in. long; terminal leaflets 3-4 bv l|-2 

 in., elliptic or lanceolate, acute, crenate-serrate, attenuated or rounded 

 and nearly equilateral at the base, on petiolules about |-| in. long; 

 lateral leaflets scarcely smaller, very inequilateral at the base (the lower 

 side much the larger and rounded, the upper side smaller and acute), 

 on petiolules about 5 as long as those of the terminal leaflets. Flowers 

 5-merous, in leaf-opposed small umbellate cymes ; peduncles reaching 

 3 in. long, bearing a forked tendril below the cyme ; pedicels very 

 short. Calyx small, membranous, 5-lobed or truncate. Petals 5, 

 oblong, rounded at the apex, -^ in. long. Ovary ribbed at the apex ; 

 style short, stout ; stigma foveolat^. Berry globose, size of a pea, 

 1-4-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, 5 by ^ in., rugose, pointed at one end, 

 longitudinally grooved on the back and with a deep circular de- 

 pression on the face. Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 56; Planch, in DC. 

 Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, p. 405 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, 

 part 4, p. 252. Cissus araneosus, Dalz. & Gribs. p. 41. — Plowers: Sept. 



Eare. Deccan : highest Ghiits west of Jiinnar, Dalzell cf- G-ihson. 



This plaut has been included on the authority of Dalzell and Gibson (Bomb. Fl. 

 p. 41), who give its habitat as the highest Ghats west of Juniiar. 1 have seen no 

 specimens from the Bombay Presidency, those in Herb. Kew. being frona the Pulney 

 Hills ex Herb. Wight. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



18. Vitis elongata, Wdl Cat. (1828) 6016. A large glabrous 

 climber ; stems very long, somewhat compressed, succulent, smooth, 

 branching only near the top ; tendrils long, simple, leaf-opposed. Leaves 

 digitately usually 5- (less commonly 3-) foliolate, the common petiole 

 2-4 in. long, sulcate ; stipules small, cordate ; leaflets 4-6 by 1-2 in., 

 oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, narrowed 

 into a very short petiolule. Flowers greenish-purple, 4-merous, in 

 di- or di-trichotomous leaf-opposed cymes, the ultimate branches short, 

 umbellate. Calyx membranous, cup-shaped, truncate. Petals 4, oblong, 

 subacute, y^-q in. long. Disk 4-lobed. Ovary ovoid ; style slender ; 

 stigma simple. Berry about the size of a cherry, ellipsoid, 1-seeded, 

 black when ripe. Seed -| in. long, ellipsoid, pointed at one end, rugose 

 on the back and with a large elliptic pit on the face. Fl. B. I. v. 1, 

 p. 658; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 56 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 272. Cissus elonr/ata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1, p. 411 ; Planch, 

 in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 5, part 2, p. 621. — Flowers : May-Oct. 



KoHKAN : Law'. Dkccan : Lanoli, Balzdll; Kliandala, Bhival; Panchgani, 

 Cooke \; Mahableshwar, 6'oo/if ! Kanaka: in the forests on the coast near Karwar, 

 Talf)ot ; Sirsi-Kunipta road, Woodrowl — Distrib. India (Sikkim Himalaya, Bengal, 

 Silhet, Coromandel). 



19. Vitis auriculata, Wall. Cat. (1828) 6031. An extensive 

 climber; branches succulent; young parts softly pubescent; tendrils 

 leaf- opposed, 2-3-cleft. Leaves 5-foliolate, common petioles 3-6 in. 

 long, stipules large, ear-shaped ; leaflets membranous, 2-6 by 1-4 in., 

 obovate or rhomboidal, acute or shortly acuminate, serrate, glabrous 

 above, more or less pubescent beneath; petiolules g-H in. long, those 

 of the terminal leaflet nearly twice as long as those of the lateral ones. 

 Flowers 4-morous, small, in much-branched divaricate cymes longer 

 than the petioles ; peduncles weak, striate, pubescent ; pedicels very 

 short. Calyx membranous, truncate, pubescent outside. Petals 4, 

 oblong, obtuse, hooded at the apex, pubescent outside. Fruit the size 



