Vitis.] XLIII. AMPELIDE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) 653 



NORTH WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Nipal, alt. 3-6000 ft.; EASTERN 

 BENGAL, Roxburgh. DJSTRIB. Malay Archipelago, China, Japan. 



Stems solid, trailing, slender. Leaves ovate, acute, base truncate or cordate, sharply 

 and deeply serrate, often 3-lobed. Tendrils branched. Flowers in erect racemes 1 in. 

 long. Petals cohering. Style very short. Fruit globose, black, the size of a pea. 

 Seed as in F. lanata. 



33. V. indica, Linn., Sp. PI. 202 ; branches leaves and peduncles covered 

 with a dense woolly tomentum, leaves 4-10 in. coriaceous, flowers greenish- 

 purple nearly sessile, style 0. Roxb. FL Ind. i. 660 ; IF. & A. Prodr. 131 ; 

 DC. Prodr. i. 634; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 33; Wall. Cat. 5993. Vitis 

 rugosa, Wall. Cat. 5994 in part; Brand. For. FL 100. Rheede Hort. 

 Mal.vil 11, t. 6. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. 



Stems slender, permanently woolly. Leaves at length glabrous and shining above, 

 cordate-ovate, acute, denticulate-serrate, the points of the serratures hard almost spiny. 

 Peduncles stoutish, bearing a long simple tendril, Flowers in short cylindric spikes 

 about 2 in. Petals distinct? Fruit globose, the size of a large currant, 2-4-seeded. 

 Seed 3 by in., elliptic, slightly curved on the back from end to end, otherwise flattish, 

 with a spathulate tubercle, the face wedge-shaped. Very closely allied to F. erioclada 

 in general appearance. In some specimens the flowers are 4-merous. F. indica, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 609, and of Thwaites, are quite distinct. 



ttttt Flowers in short racemose spikes at the end of long filiform tendrils 

 bearing peduncles. 



34. V. gracilis, Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 477 ; Cat. 6007. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. 



Branches exceedingly slender, almost filiform, pubescent. Leaves 4-5 by 2-2 1 in., 

 cordate, caudate-acuminate, sharply serrate, hispidly hirsute above both on the nerves 

 and on the intercostal spaces, beneath on the nerves only. Tendrils short, very slender, 

 simple. Flowers ? Fruit (immature ?) oblong, oblique, 1-4-seeded, sessile. Seeds 

 ^ by in., oblong-triangular, rounded on the back, the face flattened. Not unlike some 

 forms of F. lanata, but differing in the nature of the pubescence and in the character of 

 the inflorescence. 



SECT. II. Leaves 3-foliolate. (See V. dubia, V, Hookeri, V. lanceolaria, 

 V. pedata, V. tuberculata, and V. sulcata.) 



* Petals and Stamens 4. 



t ^Sterns and leaves usually fleshy. 



3u. V/IRheedei, W. & A. Prodr. 127; whole plants quite glabrous, 

 petiole 2-3 in. V. heterophylla, Wall. Cat. 6036. Cissus heterophylla, 

 Herb. Madr., Wall. Cat. 6036 (not of Poiret). C. trilobata, Lamk. Diet. i. 31 ; 

 DC. Prodr. i. 629; Thwaites Enum. 62; Gra/iam Cat. omb. Fl. 33; 

 Dalz. d- Gibs. Bomb. FL 39. Rheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 45. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Malabar and Travancor. CEYLON, common. 



Stems thick and weak. Leaves 4-8 in., the upper ones smaller three-lobed or 

 entire ; leaflets 2-5 in., shortly petioluled or sessile, the central one oblong-lanceolate, 

 the lateral ones exceedingly oblique, all distantly often sharply toothed. Tendrils 

 simple, woody. Flowers subumbellate, forming compact divaricating cymes 14 in. 

 long, usually shorter 1 than the petiole. Petals distinct. Style slender, conspicuous. 

 Fruit globose, 1-seeded, the size of a currant, black ? Seed $ by in., globose, smooth ; 

 testa brittle. 



