64 AMPELlDEiE. [Vitis. 



4. V, cordata, Wall. Catal. n. 6008 (partly). Very glabrous and some- 

 what glaucous in all its parts, the young stems succulent and disarticulating 

 at the joints in the dried specimens. Leaves on rather long petioles, cordate, 

 acuminate, 2| to 4 in. long and nearly as broad, entire except small, almost 

 bristle-like distant teeth. Flowers, like those of the last species, in corymbose 

 dichotomous cymes. Petals 4, about 1 line long, cohering at the top and 

 falling oif all together. Style subulate, with a terminal stigma. — Cissus cor- 

 data, Koxb. Fl. Ind. i. 407. 



Hongkong, Hance. Extends over northern and eastern India. The leaves in the Chinese 

 plant are not so deeply cordate as in most of the Indian specimens, but are precisely similar 

 to some of those from Assam. 



5. V. angustifolia, Wall. Catal. n. 6033. Whole plant glabrous or 

 very slightly pubescent on the young shoots and inflorescences. Leaves di- 

 gitately compound, the common petiole 1 to 1^ in. long. Leaflets 3, petio- 

 lulate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-acuminate, 1£ to 3 in. long and seldom 1 

 in. broad, with a few remote serratures. Flowers in loose trichotomous or 

 dichotomous cymes, the common peduncle seldom above -£ in. long. Petals 

 4, less than 1 line long, spreading, 2 of them bearing outside at the top a cal- 

 lous protuberance or short point or horn, the other two without it. Style 

 scarcely any, with a 2-lobed stigma. — Cissus angustifolia, Koxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 408. 



Hongkong, Wright. Also in Silhet and Assam, and, according to Roxburgh, in Sumatra. 



6. V. corniculata, Bentli., n. sp. Whole plant glabrous. Leaves pe- 

 date, that is, the common petiole divided into 3, the central branch bearing 

 1 leaflet, the 2 lateral ones 2 each. Leaflets petiolulate, ovate-acuminate or 

 oblong, coarsely toothed, the central one 2 in. long or more, the others rather 

 smaller. Flowers full 1 line long, rather crowded in dichotomous or tricho- 

 tomous cymes, on a common peduncle of 2 in. or more. Petals 4, oblong, 

 slightly cohering at the top, all bearing on the outside near the top a hood- 

 like appendage ending in a fine point, which is at first erect, afterwards 

 spreading or recurved. Style shortly subulate. 



In a ravine on Mount Victoria, Wilford, also Wright ; not received from elsewhere. It 

 is very near the V. japonica, Sieb. and Zucc. (Cissus japonica, DC), a widely distributed 

 plant, extending from the Himalaya to Japan, and gathered in S. China by Mitteit, and at 

 Amoy by Fortune (A. 101), but the shape of the petals is very different. The leaves are also 

 more of the consistence of those of V. cantoniensis, and very smooth, although shaped as 

 in V. japonica, and the cymes have little or none of the scaly hoariness of the latter species. 



7. V. cantoniensis, Seem. Bot. Her. 370. Glabrous in all its parts. 

 Leaves some simply pinnate, with 3 or 5 leaflets, others decompound ; the 

 lower pinnse bearing 3 leaflets each, the upper ones consisting of a single one. 

 Leaflets ovate, whitish underneath, the larger ones 2 to 3 in. long, coarsely 

 crenate or toothed and rather broad, but in many leaves they are not 1 in. 

 long, with very few teeth. Flowers scarcely 1 line long, in dichotomous corym- 

 bose cymes. Petals 5, spreading, obtuse, without any dorsal protuberance. 

 Style subulate. — Cissus cantoniensis, Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. 175. Cissus 

 diversifolia, Walp. PI. Meyen. 314. Hedera hypoglauca, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. ii. 724. 



Frequent in ravines and on barren hills, Champion and others. Also on the adjacent con- 

 tinent and Khasia. 



