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cuously and irregularly inciso-dentate ; texture membranous, veins beneath 

 clothed with fine grey down. Tendrils weak, herbaceous. Flowers in co- 

 piously compound cymes 3 or 4 in. broad, on stout herbaceous peduncles 

 3-4 in. long ; pedicels 1 line long, clothed with glandular grey down. Cnl^x 

 I line broad, not lobed. Corolla 1 line deep. Petals and stamens 4. Berry 

 oblong-turbinate, glabrous, 4 lines long when dry, tipped with the subulate 

 style. 



Nile Iiand. Gallabat, Schweiyifurth ! Abyssinia, Schimprr ! 



Var. )8. V. ynollis, Steud. iu A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. Ill {Cissu3). I/avrs and stems more 

 downv and the pubescence with a ferruginous tinge ; pedicels longer. Abyssinia, Schimper ! 



72. V. flavicans. Baker. Stem suberect, stout, firm-herbaceous, an- 

 gular, deeply striated, when young slightly gi-ey-downy and setose, when ma- 

 ture glabrous. Petioles 4-6 in. long, angular, compressible, striated, clothed 

 \vith short, spreading, yellowish hairs and pellucid set®. Tendrils none in 

 our specimens. Leaves digitate with 5 sessile leaflets, the terminal one ob- 

 long-lanceolate, 6-10 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, the point acute, the edge 

 slightly inciso-crenate, the lower part narrowed gradually to a cuneate base, 

 the lateral ones similar, close but not imbricated, the lowest pair rounded 

 on the outer side at the base ; texture firmly membranous, upper surface sca- 

 brous, lower clothed, especially on the raised veins and veinlets, with fine, 

 stiff, yellowish hairs. Flowers in copiously branched, short-stalked, lateral 

 cymes, 6-8 in. broad ; pedicels \-\ in. long, villose and densely setose. 

 Calyx cyathiform, not lobed, f- 1 line broad, densely villose. Petals and 

 stamens 4. Style \ in. long. Fruit crimson, turbinate, densely setose, } 

 in. deep. 



Upper Guinea. Niger country, Barter ! 



General habit of the preceding, but the leaves thicker iu texture, the stems stronger, and 

 berry glandular. 



73. V, curvipoda, Baker. Stems slender but quite woody, wide- 

 climbing, angular, naked, deeply sulcate. Petioles 1-5 in. long, firm, clotlied 

 with fine, grey, deciduous pubescence. Tendrils firm, copious, glabrous. 

 Leaves with 5 leaflets, the terminal one obovate-oblong, 4-5 in. long, 1^-2 

 in. broad, the point acute, the edge with a few shallow, broad, mucronate 

 crenations, the base rounded or cuneate, the petiolule 1 in. long, clothed with 

 fine grey pubescence, the lateral ones similar but smaller and on shorter 

 stalks ; texture membranous, both sides finely pubescent, especially on the 

 veins when young, nearly glabrous when mature. Flowers in a cymose 

 panicle 3-4 in. broad. Peduncles 3-4 in. long, firm, downy ; pedicels 

 ■^-1 line long, villose. Calyx under \ line broad, villose, slightly lobed. 

 Corolla longer than broad. * Petals and stamens 4. Style nearly equal- 

 ling the corolla. Young fruit pendulous, turbinate, both downy and slightly 

 setose. 



Upper Grninea. Island of St. Thomas, 2000 ft. above sca-lcvi-l, Mann ! 



74. V. concinna, Baker. Stems terete, slender, (pnte woody, wide- 

 climbing, slightly matted when young with cottony tomcntum, for the rest 



