Order 37. Amp elides. 63 



V. discolor, with leaves much blotched with white above, purple 

 and shining beneath, is attributed by D. to shady jungles in 

 the Konkan, has been found by Mr. Woodrow in the Bangs, and is 

 in Mr. Birdwood's list. N6,ga vel, teli clia vel. It is also an old- 

 fashioned plant of English greenhouses, where other species of Vitis 

 and Cissus are cultivated for the foliage. 



(6.) Petals and stamens 5. 



7. V. lati folia. A very handsome climber, mostly smooth, 

 the dark stems shooting out to a great length, leaves large 

 round cordate with about five acute lobes serrated, petioles and 

 tendrils long, flowers in close clusters, claret- coloured with 

 yellow anthers, fruit black, 2-seeded. Golinda. 



This is not in D. ; I have found it at Rutnagherry and in the 

 N. Konkan, and Brandis ascribes it to the Satpuras also. It and 

 V. aurioulata shoot out before the rain begins to fall. 



8. * F. pedata. A large weak climber, leaflets 7 or more, 

 long petioled, lanceolate acute serrated ; flowers covered with 

 grey hairs, fruit white, 4-lobed, 4-seeded. 



Konkan and Ghauts (D.). 



* V. Indica. Stems slender and hairy, leaves heart-shaped : 

 flowers in cylindric spikes or racemes, greenish-purple, style none, 

 fruit round (D.). Pdlkanda, the Konkans (#.). *F. araneosa, 

 slender, covered with deciduous down, leaflets 3, unequal-sided, 

 flowers brownish-red in umbels with long woolly peduncles, fruit, 

 black. Highest Ghauts W. of Junar (D.)., and very little known else- 

 where. Bendarvel, Ghorvel : the root Chamarmusli. 



From V. vinifera and its varieties all (or almost all) wine-making 

 grapes are produced. Its native country is unknown, but the oldest 

 books extant testify to its valuejhaving been found out very early. In 

 Judges ix. the olive, the fig, and the vine are the three trees given 

 as most worthy of sovereignty over the rest. In the New Testament 

 still greater honour is put upon the vine and its fruit (Luke xxii. 18). 



The twining of the vine round a forest tree is a common symbol 

 of marriage in old English writers, the vine being one of the most 

 ancient symbols of fertility : 



" Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, 

 Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, 

 Makes me with thy strength to communicate." 



Comedy of Errors. 



" They led the vine 



To wed her elm: she, spoused, about him twines 

 Her marriageable arms." Milton. 



" So doth the humble vine creep at the foot of an oak, and leans 

 upon its lowest base, and begs shade and protection, and leave to 

 grow under its branches, and to give and take mutual refreshment, 

 and pay a kindly influence for a mighty patronage ; and they grow 



