652 XLIII. AMPELIDEJE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Vitis. 



28. V. latifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. OG1 ; whole plant quite glabrous, 

 leaves roundly cordate 3-7-angled or lobed, peduncles shortish bearing a 

 slender forked tendril, petals distinct, flowers small reddish-brown. V. 

 Kleinii, Wall Cat 6008 1 C and 1 D; }]'. <( A. Prodr. 130; Brand. For. 

 FL 99. V. glabrata, //<////<< /// Rntk Nov. ,S>. 156 '.DC. Prodr. i. i;:M. 

 V. indica, Wall. Cat. 5993 ?C. V. zeylanica, Russell Wall. Cat. 5993 IV. 

 S/isede Hart. Mai. vii. 13, t. 7. 



NORTH WEST INDIA ; Kumaon and Moradabad. ASSAM, RILIIET, and the WESTERN 

 PENINSULA from the Concan and Coromandel coast south v 



Stems weak, hollow, far-climbing, striate; generally quite glabrous. Leaves 6-8 by 

 6-8 in. glossy. Flon; r* very small, in small somewhat compact thyrsoid cynics. 

 Peduncles bearing a long wiry tendril a little below tho cyme. $/;:! ". /-'mit the 

 size of a currant, blank, 2-seeded. Seed ^-J in., elliptical, with a linear tubercle on the 

 back and the margins transversely rugose, bluntly ridged on the face. 



29. V. vinifera, Linn. Sp. PL 202; stems and leaves much as in 

 F. latifolia. but often tomentose, peduncles destitute of tendrils, petals 

 united at the apex, style very short thick. /)('. I'mdr.'i. (533; IT. if A. 

 Prodr. 130 ; (,',-a/i. Cat. Bomb. PL 33; Br<md. For. Fl. 98. 



Perhaps wild in the N.W. HIMALAYA; cultivated extensively in N.W. India and 

 rarely in the Peninsula and (V\lon. I>isri:in. Native of \V. Asia. 



Regel, in his C<> l><>r. f'/ii/i. Bor. et Ja/>. Halt. 0, 



considers this plant a hyKrid ln-t \vi.ni V. vulpina, Linn. ,iand V. Lahrnsea, Linn., two 

 American species, which he identifies with the Indian V. parvifolia, lioxb., and V. 

 Janata, Itoxb. 



ttt Flowers corymbosely cymose. 



3(t. V. montana, Law*.; stems slender, young branches with long 

 delicate white spreading hairs otherwise glabrous, style 0. 



NIPAL, Wallich (in 11, rb. /A.,,/,0 ; SII.HKT, Hook.f. tO T. 



Leaves 8-12 by 6-8 in., rate, or lobcd as in F. latifolia. Common 



peduncle 3-5 in., bearing about an inch below the flowers a forked tendril; cymes 

 small. J'lfnl* separating'? l-'rnit .' Very closely allied to F. latifolin, from which it 

 differs only in the character of the cyme, and iu the long white hairs on the younger 

 portions of the stem. 



31. V. g-landulosa, Wall, in Roxb. FL J,L <<1. Carey, ii. 479; Cat. 



600G; branches leaves and petioles covered with a short dusky pubescence, 

 leaves cordate-ovate crenate sometimes 3-lobed, peduncles not bearing 

 tendrils. 



NIPAL, Wallich. 



M.t -ins cylindric, solid, jointed and thickened at the nodes, with greyish dotted bark. 

 Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 in. Floicers in small dichotomous corymbose cymes shorter than 

 the leaves. Fruit small, globose, dark-purple, 3-4-seeded. Seed as in F. lannta. 

 According to Wallich the peduncles sometimes bear a twice or thrice dichotomous 

 tendril. 



tttt Floivers spicately or racemosely-cymose. 



32. V. parvifolia, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 662 ; whole plant quite glabrous, 

 leaves 2-4 in. membranous, flowers minute green pedicellate, style distinct. 

 Wall. Cat. 6005 ; Brand. For. FL 99. V. tnmcata, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 

 609. V. vulpina, Linn. var. 7, Reyd Conspect. Sp. Gen. Vitis, 6. V. Wal- 

 lichii, DC. Prodr. i. 634. ? V. Purani, Don Prodr. 188. 



