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



elliptic-lanceolate serrate pale beneath, flowers 4-merous, seed dark pinkish- 

 red. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., H.f. & T. 



A low creeper, turning red. Leaflets narrowed into short stalks. Tendrils stoutish, 

 branching. Flowers in slender widely divaricath, ere^n. ^t//le .subulate. 



Fruit the size of a currant, globose, 2-4-seeded, pruinose. Seed ^in., ohovoid, rounded 

 on the back, wedge-shaped on the face. 



54. V. elong-ata, J(W/. f'af. 6(UC ; whole plant quite glabrous, branches 

 slightly flattened thick and succulent polished, petioles 5-8 in., leaflets 

 5-7 by 2-2. \ in. elli]>tic-lanceolate shortly acuminate serrate membranous 

 narrowed into a stalk, flowers 4-merous. Cissus elongata, lioxb. Fl. lnd. 

 i. 411 ; W. & A. Protlr. 128. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1 -f>000 ft., Sil.HKT and r.KMSAr,; COI:OM.\M>I:L, /,'o./7m /////. 



A very large climber running up and over the highest trees. Branches few r 

 until the plant arrives at a di-trichotomoufli, 



the last divisions sir rt ending in small umbels. >'////< short. Fruit 1 b\ 

 elliptic, smooth. black. 1 -seeded. /v ( W : \ in.. <!><. vatr. smootliish. \Y:i:lit & Arnott 

 say that the leaves in this species, as also in the i; late, 



V. auriculata, lb, .!>. /'/. In,l. i. 411 (Cissus); branches cylindric 

 succulent the Young ] arts .-oftly pubescent, petioles 4-7 in., leaflets on long 

 .stalks -2 <; by 1-4 in. obov;ite acute or shortly acuminate serrate mem- 

 branous, flowers i-merous. Wnll. < . IT. <( j. Prodr. ILU in part; 



]\'i<jlit /c. 145. Cissus auriculata, Z>(7. Prodr. i. c>:>,-i; /></ 

 FL 40. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; alt. 3-5000 ft., and Gun i A.... N.;, II. f. & T.; BKNSAL and HJKMA, 

 Wullich; Maisor, J/ei/ne. 



A large climber like V. cloixju'n. I'xirl; of the older stems spongy and di 



softly Mil. .i;li \\heii young, at lenuth glabrous; stipul 



shajieil. Tfmlrilif 2-.", > -mall. CI/IIH-X on Idii- thick \\eak succulent 



peduncles, divaricating, longer than the petinlc. J-'mit the si/eofad; 



red, I -seeded. ^<-, il dlijttical, rounded at the b;i- ' of the lca\es 



in the iiiniiy sjieeiiiiens 1 have met with are pedate, as Wigfit & Arnott say; indeed, 

 the specimens in Wight's herbarium numbers 427 and 'JG7 do not belong to 

 but to 1". lanceolaria. 



nc. V. planicaulis, ]/<>k.f. In Ht. M<i. i. :f;s." ; whole plant quite 

 glabrous, stems gnatly flattened, petioles 4-7 in., leaflets on stalks ; I ', in. 

 5-8 by 2-3 in. oblong-lance* date subacuminate obtusely-serrate mem- 

 branous or Bubcoriaceous, tlowers 4-merous. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, and KIIASIA ?I!TS., alt. 3-4000 ft. 



A vast climber reaching to the top of the h' I, and sending down from its 



branches long thin lealless bands, titcm/? at the base often I .J, ft. wide and 1 in. thick. 

 Tfinliilx stout, simj'lc. /' ' v Bubcorymboee with divaricating 



branches. Style subulate; stigma -1-lobed. J-'i'uit ihc si/e of a cherry, round, red? 

 1-2-seeded. iSeed by \ in., nearly cylindrical, transversely rugose. 



57. V. obovata, Laws. ; branches petioles peduncles and tendrils 

 clothed with a long soft spreading fulvous pubescence, stems much flat- 

 tened, petiole 4-7 in., leaflets 6-10 in. stalked glabrous except upon the 

 stalks obovate acute or subacuminate distantly and coarsely serrate. 



KIIASIA Mrs., alt. 3-4000 ft., H. f. & T. 



7' inlrtls stout, simple, very long. Cymes shortly pedunculate, snbcorymbn.se with 

 divaricating branches. Flowers? Fruit the size of a cherry, globose, 2-sceded. 



