Vitis.] LXIII. AMPELIDEJE. (M. A. Lawson.) 649 



Enum. 62. C. riparia, Wall. Cat. 6038. C. vitiginea, Linn. Sp. PI. 117 ; 

 DC. Prodr. i. 627 (not of Roxburgh). 



NORTH WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, Falconer, &c. ASSAM, SILHET, and 

 EASTERN BENGAL ; WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, not 

 uncommon. 



Branches coarse trailing or creeping. Stems and older branches with wrinkled bark. 

 Cymes slender, peduncle 2-5 in. bearing 3-5 rays or branching subcorymbosely with 

 the flowers ultimately umbellate. Bracts and bracteoles densely woolly. Fruit tipped 

 with the persistent style. Seed pyriform, smoothish. Very variable ; the more succu- 

 lent and glabrous forms closely resembling some specimens of V. pallida, while those 

 with cordate-ovate leaves and less persistent bracteoles are with difficulty distinguished 

 from V. aclnata, to which indeed it is very closely allied. Under V. paniculata, Wall. 

 Cat. 6022, are two species, the one with simple leaves probably belongs to V. repanda, 

 the other with 5-foliolate leaves and labelled C. pentaphylla ? Hb. Madras, belongs to 

 V. tenuifolia. 



17. V. adnata, Wall. Cat. 5998 ; stems leaves and inflorescence clothed 

 with, a rust-coloured pubescence, leaves 4-8 by 2-4 in. cordate-ovate acute 

 or shortly acuminate bristly-serrate, tendrils forked, cymes smaller more 

 compact and less woolly than'in V. repanda, bracteoles very small caducous, 

 petals distinct, fruit about the size of a pea. Brand. For. Fl. 100. V. repens, 

 Watt. Cat. 5999 b. Cissus adnata, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 405 ; DC. Prodr. i. 627 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 144 ; Ttiwaites Enum. 62 ; Cat. Bomb. PI. 32 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 39. C. cordata, Wall. Cat. 6001. C. Kleinii, Wall Cat. 6008 in 

 part. C. latifolia, Vahl Symb. iii. 18. 



Hotter parts of INDIA, from the WESTERN HIMALAYAS in Garwhal to ASSAM, 

 SILHET, BENGAL, TENASSERIM, and PENANG. WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Borneo, Philippine Islds. 



A slender far-climbing plant, with round woody branches. Leaves becoming more 

 or less glabrous above, always pubescent beneath, sometimes even densely felted with 

 a short soft tomentum, membranous. Tendrils woody. Fruit black, smooth. Seed 

 T \ in., pyriform, smooth. 



18. V. spectabilis, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1874, 196; a lofty 

 scandent ferruginously hirsute shrub, leaves almost sessile broadly cordate 

 obtuse obsoletely 3-5-lobed sinuate- cordate, at the base denticulate thick 

 membranous scabrous above. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; damp forests near Khersiong, alt. 5-6000 ft., Kurz. 



Flowers very small, on slender pedicels -^"i * n - Cymes pedunculate, trichotomous 

 J-14 in. Calyx truncate, scarcely ^ in. Style / T in., truncate. Berry (immature) 

 obovate. According to Kurz this has the habit and affinity of F. Linncei, but widely 

 diners by the indumentum and almost sessile leaves. 1 have not seen this species. 



19. V. Linneei, Wall. Cat. 5987; stems leaves and inflorescence clothed 

 with a short grey pubescence, leaves 2-4 in. long and broad palmately 

 3-5-angled or lobed slightly cordate or retusely-truncate at the base 

 coarsely and irregularly serrate, tendrils simple, petals distinct, fruit | in. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 126. Cissus angulata, Lamk. Diet. Supp. i. 104; DC. 

 Prodr. i. 629 ; Thwaites Enum. 62. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards, and CEYLON. 



Stems and leaves subfleshy. Branches cylindric or very obtusely angled. Cymes 

 slender, about as long as the leaves. Flowers small. Fruit oblong, bluish, pruinose ; 

 pedicels recurved. Seed as in V. repanda. A very distinct species, of which the 

 synonymy has been much confused. I have followed Wallich in calling it F. Linnwi. 



