656 LXIII. AMPELIDE^E. (M. A. Lawson.) [Vitis. 



(Ampelopsis) neilgherrensis, Wight Ic. t. 965, Ampelopsis himalayana, 

 Royk IU. 149. Cissus himalayana, Walp. Rep. i. 441. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 6-9000 ft., to Sikkim, :alt. 6-11,000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS.. alt. 2-4000 ft. PEGU, Kurz. WESTEKN PENINSULA; Pulnev 

 Wight. 



Bark smooth, or on the older branches with a few small warts. Leaves 3-8 in., 

 membranous or subcoriaceous, often glossy ; petiole 1^4 in. ; leaflets 2-5 in., shurplv or 

 inciso-serrate, the terminal ovate or obovate, rounded at the base or subcordate, acumi- 

 nate, lateral J-ovate or ^-cordate. Tendrils 0. Flowers in., in subcorymbo.se dicho- 

 tomous cymes, rarely 5-merous. Style short, stout. Fruit 4-si 



VAR. stmicordata^Vall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. < 'airy, ii. 481 (species) ; young branches 

 petioles and the nerves beneath the leaves hispidly pubescent, leaves smaller than in the 

 type, tendrils sometimes present branched, rPdU. Cat. 6020. Himalaya and Khasia 

 JUts. Perhaps this ought not to be distinguished even as a variety. 



45. V. anamallayana, Beddome in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 213; a very 

 large glabrous climber, petiole 1-2 in., leaflets 3.\-4 in. ovate-lanceolate 

 with a long acumination sharply serrate conspicuously reticulate beneath, 

 peduncles shorter than the petioles, cymes lax. 



\VI>II:;:.N Pi:.M.\sDLA ; banks of rivers on the Anamallay hills, alt. 5000- ft., 

 Bedd 



Leaves of the younger branches simple, ovate-lanceolate, of the older usually trifo- 

 liolate ; petiole 'glandular ; leaflets nearly equal. The description is too impenect to 

 determine with exactness the proper affinities of this spe 



46. V. Gardner!, Tliiviif** Emnn. (13 (Cissus); branches terete ru- 

 fescent, petioles about 1 in., leaflets -I-?, in. by i-i.| in., cymes few-iluunv,! 

 rufescent much longer than the petioles, fruit the size of a pea blackish- 

 purple. 



CEYLON: Mate]e and Ilnnasgirio district. Thiraites. 



et* glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, ivpaiKl-ilentate, cuneate at the base, lateral leaflets 

 , smaller. Stipules cordate-oblong, adnate. 



b. Fruit globose, 1 in. or more in diameter. 



47. V. mollissima, II'///. /// lt.i-h. Fl. In<I. cd. Carey, \i. 482; stems 

 slender when young covered with long hispid hairs, leaves hairy on both 

 surfaces, style long slender, fruit dry 1 in. aiam. Wall. Cut. (i(>12. 



PKXANO, WaUidt ; Malacca, (JrijfitJt, Muinyay. 



Stems at length glabrous. Leaves 5-8 in., covered with long soft dense hairs, 

 membranous ; petiole 2-3^ in.; leaflets ovate; or oblong-ovate, acute or subacu- 

 niinate, faintly serrate, lateral very oblique. 7*-/"/V/7x very slender, forked. Flowers 

 about yij in., long pedoncled, divaricating cvnies equalling the ]>etiole>. Fruit 23- 

 seej.-d. Seed t by ^ in., elliptic-oblong, boat-shaped, rounded and polished on the. 

 back and with a linear tubercle hollow on the face. Wallich describes the fruit as 

 nearly the size of a cherry ;" but the ripe ones in specimens from Malacca are 

 very much 1. 



48. V. tuberculata, Blume Bijd. 189 (Cissus); stem'very warty gla- 

 brous, leaves quite glabrous coriaceous, style very short, stigma subpeltate, 

 fruit dry l.\ in. diam. 



PEGV. McChlland. DISTRIB. Java. 



\Vh< ile plant quite glabrous. Leaves 8 in. to 1 ft. ; petiole 24 in.; leaflets shortly 

 stalked, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, entire or very faintly 

 towards the tip, margin slightly re volute. Tendrils simple or forked. Flowers 

 very small, in dense compact cymes under 1 in., almost sessile. Fruit on very 

 short thick pedicels, dry, membranous, brown, 1-3-seeded. Seed f by in., obovoid 



