Vitis.] XLIII. AMPELIDE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) 657 



emarginate, grooved on the back and in the groove a long linear tubercle, the raphe 

 also lying in a groove on the face. According to Blurae, the leaves are sometimes 4-5- 

 foliolate. 



c. Fruit oblong subfalcate, ^ in. long. 



49. V. campylocarpa, Kurz mss. ; whole plant quite glabrous, fruit 

 1-seeded, seed \ by i in. cylindrical curved transversely wrinkled, style 0, 

 stigma large subpeltate. 



ASSAM, Griffith ; PEGU, Kurz. 



Stems round. Leaves 6-8 in., coriaceous; petiole 2|-4 in. ; leaflets stalked, obovate, 

 suddenly and shortly acuminate, faintly serrate towards the tip. Tendrils 0. Flowers 

 in nearly sessile very diffuse widely divaricating cymes longer than the petiole. Fruit 

 dark-brown, not pulpy, pericarp reduced to a thin membrane. 



** Petals and stamens 5. 



50. V. divaricata, Wall, in Hb. 1824; ex Cat. 5994 h under V. 

 rugosa ; whole plant covered with deciduous clown, stems cylindric, leaves 

 6 in.-l ft., terminal leaflet ovate acute or subacuminate lateral semi-cordate. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 6-700 ft., to E. Nepal, alt. 

 3-4000 ft. ; MAISOR, Herb. Rottler. 



Stems slender, far-climbing. Leaves thinly membranous, 3- rarely 5-foliolate ; petiole 

 3-4 in. ; leaflets serrate, at length glabrous or nearly so. Flowers dark-brown or red, 

 in small compact umbellate cymes on long woolly peduncles, which bear a forked ten^ 

 dril about 1 in. from the top. Style very short. Fruit globose, the sizo of a currant, 

 black, 3-4-seeded. Seed g by | i n -> almost round, flat, emargiuate, pale coloured. 

 Wight & Arnott unite this with V. tomentosa, to which it is very closely allied, but 

 differs sufficiently in the composition and texture of the leaves. 



51. V. araneosus, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 41 ?; whole plant covered 

 with a deciduous down except on the under surface of the leaves where it 

 is persistent, stems flattened, leaves 4-6 in., terminal leaflet elliptic, lateral 

 semi-elliptic. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; highest Ghats of the Concan ; Pulney Mts., Wight. 



Stems slender, far-climbing. Leaves membranous ; petiole 1-2 in. ; leaflets shortly- 

 stalked, serrate, at length glabrous above, felted beneath. Flowers and fruit as in 

 V. divaricata. Seeds ^ by in., elliptic, with a round depression on the back, puckered 

 round the margins. 



SECT. III. Leaves mostly 5-foliolate, digitate. (See 58, cinnamomea.) 

 t Flowers umbellate hardly cymose. 



52. V. obtecta, Wall. Cat. 6026; branches rooting, young branches 

 petioles and peduncles clothed with softvillous red hairs, petioles 1^-2^ in., 

 leaflets all under 4 in., flowers 4-nierous. V. hederacea, Wall. Cat. 6019, 

 in part. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kumaon, alt. 6000ft., Thomson; to Nipal, Wattich. 

 DISTRIB. Yunan. 



Young branches very slender, creeping, older with a roughish bark and covered with 

 numerous short aerial rootlets. Leaflets ovate or obovate, sessile or nearly sft serrate, 

 glabrous, membranous, lateral much smaller than the terminal. Tendril* branched, very 

 slender, short. Flower* unisexual, in. long. Style 0, stigma Hat. fruit immature, 

 the size of a currant, globose, 1-seeded, black? 



ft Flowers umbellate in divaricating subcorymbose cymes. 



53. V. Thomson!, Laws. ; stems cylindric slender, whole plant gla- 

 brous, leaves glaucous deep green, petiole 2-3 in., leaflets 3-4 by 1^-2 in. 



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