FUis.] XLIII. AMPELIDE.T (bAKF.u). 309 



ture, the lower matted all over with fine frrcyiah or salinon-colourod, cottony 

 tomentum. Tendrils long, firm, woody, branched. Flowers in densely com*. 

 pound subcymose or paniculate lateral clusters, 2 \- in. broad ; peduncles \- 

 li in. long, spreading, firm, villose like the stem. Pedicels vrry short, vil- 

 lose. Calyx cyatliitbrm, not lobed, ^ line broad. Petals 5, scarlet, spread- 

 ing, the expanded tiower 2 lines across. Stamens 5. Ovarv ])cntagonal, 

 the stigma sessile. Berries subglobose, f in. long, red, naked. ' 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vot/el ! Dr. Welwitsch ! Niger country, Nupe, Barter! 

 banks of the Bagroo river, Mann ! 

 A large climber with eatable fruit. 



31. V. boxnbycina. Baker. Stem wide-climbing, weak, herbaceous, 



the young shoots densely clothed with pale, reddish-brown, silky tomentum. 

 Petioles 1-3 in. long, spreading, slender, clothed like the shoots. Leaves 

 rotundate-cordate in general outline, 4-6 in. broad each way, the base broadly 

 rounded, the blade 3 -5 -lobed two-thirds of the way down, the sinuses 

 rounded, the terminal lobe spathulate entire, the edge distinctly not deeply 

 denticulate, texture thinly herl)aceous, upper surface green, glabrous in the 

 mature plant, lower matted all over witli fine whitish pubescence which in 

 the young leaves is very dense and has a tinge of salmon-colour. Flowers 

 in compound lateral cymes. Peduncles spreading, ^-1-^ in. long, firm, 

 densely villose. Clusters dense ; pedicels very short. Calyx cyathiform, 

 bluntly 5 -lobed, |- line across. Petals 5, deep red, ^ line long. Stamens 5. 

 Ovary pentagonal, prominent, the stigma sessile. 



Upper Guinea. Niger country, Nupe, Bartei- ! 



A wide-climbing plant, scarcely shrubby, with eatable fruit. It agrees with the .lapancftc 

 V. Thunbergii, S. and Z., in the clothing and shape of the leaves, but the intlorescence ia 

 quite different. 



32. V. quadrangularis Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 628. Stem thick, wide- 

 climbing, herbaceous, quadrangular, constricted at the nodes, the angles 

 winged, naked or slightly downy except that the wings when young are 

 sometimes furnished with short, rigid, purple cilia. Petioles ^-1^ in. long, 

 succulent, glabrous. Leaves varying from ovate and entire to cordate and 

 deeply 3-lobed, the terminal lobe triangular or subspathulate, sometimes 

 slightly lobed again, the sinuses rounded and open, the lateral lubes broadly 

 rounded on the lower side, all distantly but rather sharply denticulate, tex- 

 ture membranous, both sides green and glabrous or nearly so. Flowers in 

 slightly compound lateral cymes. Peduncles ^-1 in. long, spreading, her- 

 baceous, glabrous; pedicels \-\ in. long, herbaceous, glabrous. Calyx 

 cyathiform, 1 line broad, green, not lobed. Petals 4, greenish. Stamens 

 4, the filaments very short. Berries subglobose, }-| in. each way, red 

 when mature, 1-seeded. Style subulate.— Wight, Ic. i. t. 51 ; Guill. et 

 Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 133. C. Mraptera, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 263. C. tri- 

 andra and C. bifida^ Schum. et Thonn. Guin. Pi. 81. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, P^rro//^^' Niger country. Barter! Curror ! 

 Nile Land. Nubia, Schxceinfurth I Abyssinia, Dillon and TAit! Spelf and 

 Grant ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



