Vitis.] LXIII. AMPELIDE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) 647 



Ind. 1. 407 ; Grali. Cat. Bomb. PI. 32. C. repens, Lamk. ; DC. Prodr. i. 



62S.~Eheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 48. 



EASTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA, the KHASIA MTS., ASSAM, and SILHET, ascending to 

 5000 ft. CHITTAGONG. TENASSERIM. WESTERN PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Java, Amboyiia. 

 (Eoicb.) 



A weak trailing plant, always very glaucous, at least when young. Tendrils weak, 

 fleshy. Umbels on slender peduncles, 1-4 in., the 'rays again umbelliferous. Style 

 very conspicuous. Fruit dry, .pedicels -1 in., neither fleshy nor increasing in size. 

 Seed <t in., globosely-pyriform, smooth, pale. 



10. V. discolor, Dah. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 39 ; glabrous, 

 not glaucous, stei.is subangular weak, leaves 3-12 by 1-4 in. narrowly cor- 

 date-ovate acute the upper lanceolate subcordate or entire at the base 

 bristly-serrate blotched with white on the upper surface membranous, 

 tendrils forked, flowers and fruit as in V. repens. Dalz. & Gibs. Boinb. 

 Fl. 40. V. insequalis, Wall. Cat. 6010 ; W. & A. Prodr. 125. 1 V. diver- 

 sifolia, Wall. Cat. 5996. ?V. costata, Wall. Cat. 6011. C. discolor, Blume 

 Bijd, 181 ; Bot. Mag. 80, t. 4763. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, the KHASIA MTS., and SILHET, ascending to 3000 ft. ; 

 CHITTAGOXG, PEGU, and TENASSERIM. WESTERN PENINSULA, in the Concan, DalzelL 

 DISTRIB. Java. 



Branches and pedicels bright red. Leaves oblique, spotted with transverse blotches 

 of white between the nerves on the upper surface, purple beneath. Fruit reddish purple. 

 Seed as in F. repens. The presence and position of the blotches seem to be very 

 uncertain. Instead of the discolorations lying between, they sometimes follow the 

 course of the nerves, while sometimes the leaves are entirely destitute of any markings, 

 in which case the plant becomes Cissus velutinus, Linden Cat. (in Bot. Mag. 86, t. 5207). 

 Vitis inceqiialis, Wall., appears to belong to the uncoloured forms of this species, in 

 which the leaves are narrowly ovate-lanceolate, almost entire and very unequal at the 

 base. To specimens taken from the tops of branches of either this species or V. repens 

 must probably be referred F. costata, Wall, and F. diversifolia, Wall. 



11. V. Keyneana, Wall. Cat. 5988 A ; W. & A. Prodr. 125, not DC. ; 

 quite glabrous, branches thick hollow succulent, leaves 3-7 by l|-4 in. 

 cordate-ovate or ovate distantly and faintly serrate thick and leathery, 

 tendrils simple, peduncle 1 in. usually 2-rayed, rays bearing numerous 

 umbellate flowers, pedicels thick, petals i in., fruit i in. Cissus rotun- 

 diatia, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 5988 ; 1 DC. Prodr. i. 628. 



WESTERN PENINSULA in the Southern provinces, Courtallam and Travancor, Wight. 

 CEYLON, Thwaites. 



A coarse plant with thick fleshy leathery stems. Leaves pale green. TendrV* 

 stout. Petals distinct. Style conspicuous. Fruit pyriform, dry, 1-2-seeded, the pedi- 

 cels thickened upwards. Cissus ylauca, Thwaites (Enum. 62), has thick fleshy stems 

 and leaves as in this species, leaves 6-8 by 4 in. ovate obtuse ; the fruit resembles that 

 of V. pallida, to which perhaps it is most closely allied. 



12. V. pallida, IF". & A. Prodr. 125; quite glabrous or young parts 

 slightly puberulous, brauches thick fleshy hollow, leaves 4-10 in. broadly 

 cordate dentate-serrate or inciso-serrate often repand, tendrils simple, 

 peduncle 1-2 in. very thick fleshy, cyme compact fleshy subcorymbose, 

 .bracts and bracteoles large glabrous and pellucid, petals A- in., fruit the 

 size of a pea. 01 in Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 393. ? V. Wallichii, Kun in Journ. 

 As. tioc. ena. 1872, ii. 302. 



