648 XLIII. AMPELIDE^. (M. A. Lawson.) [ Vitis- 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, Garwhal, Strach. & Wint. WESTERN PENINSULA, from the 

 Concan southwards. AVA ? Kurz. DISTRIB. Abyssinia. 



Young branches and leaves often pellucid. Leaves pale green ; petiole 2-5 in. 

 Tendril short, fleshy, opposite the leaves or 0. Petals distinct. Style long, slender. 

 Fruit subglobose, 1- or according to W. & A. 1-2-seeded; pedicels very thick and 

 fleshy. Seed |- in., pyriform, smooth, pale. -Wight and Arnott refer CYs-S' 

 Koxb. Fl. Ind. i. 406, to this species, but Roxburgh's figure is without doubt V. I 



13. V. glauca, W. & A. Prodr. 126; whole plant except the younger 

 parts quite glabrous, stems glaucous, leaves 5-10 by 2-4\ in. with long 

 petioles roundly cordate rarely obscurely lobed cuspidate bristly-serrate 

 membranous, tendrils forked, peduncles 2-3 in. very slender 3-5-niyt d, 

 rays umbellately many-flowered, bracts and bracteoles very small deci- 

 duous, petals -jV i., fruit the size of a pen. Y. Klcinii, Wall. ( 'nf. coos A, 15. 

 Cissus cordata,' Roab. FL /////. i. 407 ; 1>C. Pm,h\ i. 628. C. glauca, i 



J'7. /i,d. i. 406; <//'///. Cut. 1ln-.nl,. 1*1. 32. C. purpureus, ROJ : 

 td. ii. vol. i. 373. Rlvede Jlort. Mai. vii. 21, t. 11. 



\\'i>n i:.\ 1'r.MXsuLA ; from the Concan southwards. 



Xlciits succulent, dark brown, cylindric, faintly striate. Leaves slightly pubernlous 

 wlu-n voting, drying black. '/////<.< slender. :-v small ; pi-di<v!s ', : 



slender. Petals d\ v^, slender. ..globose, 1-2-see 



VAR. Stem ...Urn at the nodes. Leaves distantly and very obtusely 



crenate not bristly-serrate. Courtallam. 



14. V. assamica, Laws. ; whole plant except the youngest parts quite 

 glabrous, branches subangular woody, leaves roundly cordate or orbicular 

 cuspidate or suddenly and shortly acuminate bristly-serrate with recurved 

 margins very prominently nerved beneath harsh ami subeoriaceous, tendrils 

 simple, cymes slender, petals T ^ in., fruit the size of a pea. 



i, 



linn and rigid, turning black when dry ; a hard harsh plant when com- 

 pared with V. glauca. n slender pe. Heels. /'. t,tlx distinct. <SV///- 



stigma subcapitate. Fruit \ in., turbiiiuU-, dry, black, subangled, 1-seeded. Scul \ in. 

 pyriform. Very closely allied to V. adnata. 



/3. Leaves jmljescent or tomentose beneath. 



15. V. gig-antea, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 212 ; an enormous 

 climber, branches terete round glabrous, leaves 0-8 in. cordate with a 

 deep sinus and long point mucronate glabrous above subtumentose 

 beneath, tendrils bifid. ^ 



\\'i.sn.;i:\ PKMXSULA; Anamallay forests, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. 



Stems 4-5 in. diam., bark corky. Leaves crenate, crenatures sharply toothed, 5- 

 nerved; petiole 2-4 in. Cymes 3-5-rayed, rays bearing minute green umbellate 

 flowers. I have never seen this species. 



16. V. repanda, W. & A. Prodr. 125 ; stems and leaves with appressed 

 woolly tomentum, leaves "4-8 by 3-6 in. broadly cordate coarsely crenate 

 or dentate or inciso-serrate or sublobed often repand densely covered when 

 young with rust-coloured hairs at length glabrous above, tendrils forked, 

 petals cohering at the apex, fruit | in. pyriform. V. laeta, Wall. ('<>t. i;oo2. 

 V. rosea, Royle III. 149, t. 26, f. 1. Cissus acuminata, Tliwaites I'limm. 62. 

 C, aquosa, Wall. Cat. 6000. C. repanda, Vald ; DC. Prodr. i. 627; 

 Grah. Cat. Boinb. PL 32 Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 39. C. repens, Thwaites 



