.Fitis.] vitis. 53 



1. VITIS, Linn. 

 Petals and free stamens inserted on a hypogynous disk. Ovary 2-celled, 

 with 2 collateral erect ovules in each cell. — Vines, with the remaining charac- 

 ters, habit, and distribution of the Order. 



Leaves broadly cordate, undivided or lobed. 



Petals 5, cohering at the top. Stigma sessile. 



Leaves glabrous when full grown 1. V. parvifolia. 



Leaves covered underneath with a rusty wool . . . . . . 2. V. Janata. 



Petals 5, spreading. Style short, conical 3. V. heterophylla. 



Petals 4, cohering at the top. Style subulate 4. V. cordata. 



Leaves compound. 



Leaflets 3, digitate 5. V. angustifolia. 



Leaflets 5, pedate 6. V. corniculata. 



Leaflets 5 (rarely 3), pinnate, or the lower pinnae again ternately 



compound 7. V. cantoniensis. 



1. V. parvifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 662. Young shoots and leaves co- 

 vered with a short loose tomentum, which very soon disappears. Leaves 

 glabrous when full grown, broadly cordate, acuminate, seldom above 3 in. 

 long and 2 in. broad, coarsely toothed, undivided or broadly 3-lobed, and ra- 

 ther thin. Panicle oblong, usually shorter than the leaves. Flowers very small, 

 on short slender pedicels. Petals 5, cohering at the top and falling off all to- 

 gether. Stigma sessile on the top of the ovary. — V. succisa, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. ii. 231. V.flexuosa, Thunb. in Trans. Soc. Linn. ii. 332 (according to 

 Siebold's specimens). 



Hongkong, Wright, Wilford. Common in the Himalaya and Khasia mountains, per- 

 haps also in Java; but the specimens [Zollinger, n. 909) are' somewhat doubtful. Extends 

 northwards to Japan, and the North American V. cordifolia is scarcely to be distinguished 

 from it. It is very near the common Grape- Vine, but has always the leaves much smaller. 



2. V. lanata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 660. Young branches, under side of the 

 leaves, and panicles clothed with a close, dense, rusty-coloured wool. Leaves 

 broad, cordate at the base, usually obtuse, often 4 or even 5 in. long and 

 broad, coarsely toothed, undivided or rarely broadly and shortly lobed, rather 

 thick, glabrous above but retaining the wool underneath. Mowers very small, 

 in pedunculate narrow panicles like those of the last species, but with 2 to 4 

 long spreading branches at the base. Petals 5, cohering at the top and fall- 

 ing off all together. Stigma sessile on the top of the ovary. Berry small, 

 purple, globular. 



Hongkong, Wright. Common in northern and eastern India. 



3. V. heterophylla, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 103. Whole plant glabrous or 

 the young shoots very slightly pubescent. Leaves broadly cordate, acumi- 

 nate, coarsely toothed, 2 or 3 in. long and broad, mostly undivided, but some 

 broadly 3- or 5 -lobed, others more deeply divided, with the lobes elongated 

 and sinuate or almost pinnatifid. Flowers larger than in the two last species, 

 in shortly pedunculate, dichotomous, broadly corymbose cymes. Petals 5, 

 spreading, bent inwards and thickened at the top, near 1 line long. Style 

 short and conical. Berry small, globular. — Ampelopsis heterophylla, Sieb. 

 and Zucc. FL Jap. Fam. Nat. fasc. i. 89. 



Hongkong, Wright, sent with V. 'parvifolia, which it sometimes resembles in foliage, but 

 the inilorescence and flowers arc very different. Also in Formosa, Wilford, and in Japan. 



