Vitis.] XLIII. AMPELIDE^E. (M. A. Lawson.) 651 



ft Flowers paniculately cymose. 



25 1 . V. evioclada, W. & A. Prodr. 130 ; branches and petioles covered 

 with a dense subdeciduous tomentum, leaves cordate-ovate coriaceous, 

 flowers sessile and often almost hidden in the woolly tomentum, cymes 

 compact or woody, peduncle 3-12 in. bearing two-thirds of the way a stout 

 woody simple tendril. V. indica, ThwaitesEnum. 6Z.Rheede Hort. Mai. vii. 

 t. 7. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Rheede, Wight; CEYLON, common up to 3000 ft. 



Stem stout, hollow, cyliudric, striate. Leaves 6-12 by 3|-7 in., acute or sub- 

 acuminate, coarsely dentate, the teeth terminated by a hard obtuse point, at length 

 quite glabrous above, nerves very prominent beneath. Cymes branching divaricately. 

 Petals distinct. Style 0. Fruit oblong, about the size of a grape. 



26. V. barbata, Wall, in Roxb. ' Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 478 ; branches 

 petioles and peduncles covered with numerous long spreading glandular 

 capitate hairs, leaves cordate-ovate membranous, peduncle flattened 4-8 in . 

 bearing a long forked slender tendril above its middle, cymes regularly 

 paniculate as long as the peduncle. V. latifolia, Hb. Ham. ; Wall. Cat. 

 5994 ?G. -V. lanata, Hb. Roxb. ; Wall. Cat. 5995 c, d. 



KHASIA Mxs., alt. 0-3000 ft. ; ASSAM, SILHET, PEGU, and TENASSERIM. 



Branches stoutish, hollow, dark brown or nearly black. Leaves 8 in.-l ft. or more, 

 roundly cordate-ovate, sinuate-dentate, sometimes sublobed, at length glabrous above, 

 puberulous or densely tomentose beneath. Flowers sessile in large lax ovate paniculate 

 cymes. Fruit the size of a large currant, black, shortly pedicellate. Seed f by in., 

 elliptic, the back flattish and shallowly grooved, the face rather sharply ridged, nearly 

 smooth. A very distinct species, known at once by the long spreading black hairs. 

 Wallich describes the flowers as being 4-cleft, but although they may be so sometimes 

 it is certain that they are generally pentamerous. 



27. V. lanata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 660; branches petioles and cymes 

 more or less pubescent or tomentose, leaves cordate-ovate shortly acuminate 

 membranous, peduncle bearing a simple or forked tendril, petals cohering 

 at the top. W. & A. Prodr. 131; Wall. Cat. 5995 a, b, e; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 99. V. cordifolia, Roth Nov. Sp. 158. V. indica, Hb. Ham. ; Wall. 

 Cat. 5994? E. V. Heyneana, DC. Prodr. i. 634. V. pentagona, II b. Ham. ; 

 Wall. Cat. 5994 1 F. V. rugosa, Wall. Cat. 5994 a, 6, c, and d in part. 

 V. Labrusca, Linn. yar. y, Regel. Conspect. tip. Gen. 9. Cissus viti- 

 ginea, Roxb. Fl Ind. i. 406 (note of Linnceus). Alima 1 cristatum, Wall.jCat. 

 4994. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kashmir and Jamu, alt. 1-4000 ft. and KUMAON, alt. 

 6-7000 ft., to SIKKIM, alt. 1-5000 ft. ; ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG, BIKMA, 

 and the CIRCARS. 



A very variable plant in the size shape and vestiture of the leaves, usually they are 

 3-6 by lf-3 in., sometimes larger, and usually softly pubescent, but sometimes felted 

 beneath, or nearly glabrous. Flowers small, green r forming a thyrsoid paniculate cyme. 

 Petals cohering at the apex rarely separating. Fruit the size of a large pea, round, 

 purple, 4-seeded. Seed % by J in., obtriangular, subemarginate, rounded and smooth on 

 the back with a small spathulate tubercle, face wedge-shaped with a shallow linear de- 

 pression on each side of the ridge. The following varieties may be distinguished : 



VAR. 1. rugosa; leaves ovate or cordate-ovate nearly 2 ft. clothed beneath with a 

 dense matted tomentum ; stems thicker than in the type with a dark deciduous bark. 

 Himalaya and Tenasserim. 



VAR. 2. glulra; leaves almost quite glabrous ; stems more slender than in the type, 

 approaching V. jparvifolia. Ganvhal and Khusiu His. 



