394 XLiii. AMPELiDEiE (baker). [FUis. 



all over with brown woolly tomentum. Tendrils 0. Flowers in moderately 

 compound, leaf-opposed cymes, on almost herbaceous peduncles, f-1^ in. 

 long. Ultimate pedicels :^|- in. long, ferruginous, like the leaves when 

 young. Calyx \ line broad,, pale, cyathiform, quite entire, slightly ferrugi- 

 nous, Petals and stamens 4, the corolla oblong, cream-coloured, with a 

 tinge of red, quite a line deep, slightly ferruginous on the outside. Style 

 subulate, as long as the stamens. Immature berry ^ in. each way, round, 

 green, quite naked. 



IiO^er Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



la leaves and fruit this resembles the preceding, but the stem is erect, the cymes more 

 compound, and the whole plant thinly matted with brownish down. 



16. V. salxnonea. Baker. Stems wide-climbing, herbaceous but firm, 

 compressible, dark coloured, copiously clothed with fine grey down and 

 spreading purplish setae. Petioles 1-|— 2*in. long, thick, herbaceous, clothed 

 like the stem. Leaves rotundate-cordate, 3-4 in. each way, the basal lobes 

 rounded, |— f in. deep, the apex acute or cuspidate, the edge closely furnished 

 with spreading, not deep, triangular mucronate teeth, texture membranous ; 

 upper surface nearly glabrous, lower densely matted all over with fine bright 

 salmon-coloured down, the veins reddish-brown. Tendrils long, copious, 

 firm, often branched. Plowers in dense compound lateral cymes or panicles. 

 Peduncles strong, spreading, villose, about 1 in. long. Branches generally 

 racemose ; pedicels very short, villose. Calyx cyathiform, not lobed, \ line 

 broad. Petals 5, ^ line long. Stamens 5. Ovary pentagonal, the stigma 

 sessile. Pruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Barter ! Dr. Welwitsch ! 



A wide-climbing shrub. In the clothing of the leaves and their shape this agrees with the 

 Indian V. lanata, Roxb., but in the latter the pauiqle is thyrsiform and the stems are not 

 setose. 



17. V. rubiginosa, Welw. wss. Suffruticose ; stem wide-climbing, 

 slender, terete, densely matted with short, reddish-ferruginous silky hairs. 

 Petioles 2-4 in. long, firm, slender, matted like the branches. Leaves rotun- 

 date-cordate, 3-5 in. each way, the basal lobes 1 in. deep, the apex with a 

 very slight point, the edge with each of the main veins produced a little be- 

 yond it, texture thinly membranous, both sides, especially the lower one, 

 matted with bright coloured tomentum like that of the branches, which is 

 dense on the main veins below. Flowers in copiously compound cymes, on 

 short erecto-patent leaf-opposed peduncles. Ultimate pedicels \-\ in. long, 

 together with the cyathiform entire calyx and the 4 ovate-lanceolate petals 

 ferruginous on the outside. Petals soon spreading, the expanded corolla 2 

 lines broad. Style subulate. Immature fruit naked, subglobose. 



Iiower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



This Coincides with the Cape V. capensis in the character of the inflorescence, but the 

 ferruginous coatiug of the leaves is denser and more permanent, and their toothing and vein- 

 ing very different. 



18. V. farinosa, Welw.ynss. Stem wide-climbing, rather woody, terete, 

 finely striated, densely clothed with white pulverulent meal when young. 



