FUis.] XLiii. AMPELiDE.i: (baker). 397 



Stamens 4. Style subulate. Fruit turbinate, naked, ^ in. deep, black wlien 

 ripe.— Fl. Nigrit. 261. Cissus rufescens, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 133. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! Perrottet ! Skuet ! Niger country, Barter! 

 Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Morson ! Don ! etc. 



Laying the original specimens of the plants of Afzelius and lh<- "Flora of Seneg«mbi»," 

 which are both in the British Museum herbarium, side by side, we have no hesitation ia 

 uniting the two. 



25. V. abyssinica, ^oc/^6^. ; Rich. FL Abyss, i. 112. Stems wide- 

 climbing, woody, naked. Petioles glabrous, 3-4 in. long. Leaves rotundato- 

 cordate in general outline, 6-9 in. each way, 3-lobed in the upper part about 

 a quarter of the way down to the base, the central lobe deltoid, the base 

 deeply cordate, the edge not more than ciliate-denticulate, texture thiuiy mem- 

 branous, both sides quite naked. Flowers in copious thyrsoid panicles on 

 short firm peduncles ; pedicels glabrous, very short. Calyx glabrous, cya- 

 thiform, loose, under |- line broad. Unexpanded corolla subglobose. Pe- 

 tals 5, green, glabrous, ^ line long. Stamens 5, with short filaments. 

 Ovary globose with a sessile stigma. Fruit not seen. 



Nile Iiand. Nubia, Schweinfurth I Abyssinia, Schimjier ! 



Very near V. vinifera,\)\xi flowers globose and leaves very large, thin, quite glabrous, 

 3-lobed only in the upper third and edge only ciliate-denticulate. 



26. V, palmatifilda, Baker. Stem suberect, woody, terete, finely 

 striated, villose when young, glabrous when mature. Petioles 1-2 in. long, 

 firm, villose. Leaves 2-4 in. each way, 3-5-lobed, the base truncate or 

 slightly cordate, often cut two-thirds or three-quarters of the way down 

 from the edge to the apex of the petiole and terminal lobe especially deeply 

 pinnatifid with oblong segments and broad rounded sinuses, the edge slightly 

 ciliate-denticulate, texture thickly membranous, upper surface green, 

 finely villose, the lower densely matted all over with fine grey pubescence. 

 Tendrils few, firm. Flowers in more or less compound lateral cymes. Pe- 

 duncles 1-2 in. long, firm, villose. Clusters 6-12-flowered ; pedicels \~\ in. 

 long, pubescent. Calyx cyathiform, not lobed, ^ line broad. Petals 4, J 

 line long, glandulose-pubescent, cohering at the tip. Stamens 4. Ovary 

 subglobose ; the style subulate. Fruit subglobose, \ in. each way. 



Upper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Barter ! and either the same or a closely allied 

 plant gathered by Dr. Welwitsch in Angola. 



A suberect shrub, about 6 ft. in height, with eatable fruit like black currants. 



27. V, mossambicensis Klotzsch in Feters' Mossamb. Bot. 180. 

 Stem wide-climbing, woody, slender, subterete, the young shoots densely 

 pubescent. Petioles of the .upper leaves 1-2 in. long, firm, densely pubes- 

 cent. Leaves rotundate-cordate, 2-6 in. each way, varying from nearly 

 entire to deeply 3- or 5-lobed, the base broadly and deeply rounded, the ter- 

 minal lobe spathulate with broad rounded sinuses on each side of it, the 

 edge all round furnished with irregular, spreading, shallow, triangular, mu- 

 cronate teeth, texture coriaceous, both surfaces densely clothed with grey 

 woolly toraentum when young but the upper becoming nearly glabrous in the 

 mature plant. Tendrils few, firm. Flowers in densely compound lateral 

 cymes ; peduncles ^-1 in. long, spreading, firm. Clusters dense, with 12-20 



