660 XLIII. AMPELIDE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) 



serrate in the notches. Tendrils slender, simple or forked. Cyme* axillary or termi- 

 nating in short lateral branches, peduncnlate ; peduncles usually with several snrimis 

 conspicuous bracts, 3-5-vayed, rays several-flowered. JFlowtrs nedicelled ; p 

 ;j-in. Fruit the size of a currant, globose, 2-4-seeded, black. Seed ^ by 4 in., pale, 

 obovoid, thick, rounded and muricate on the back, and with a linear tubercle, flattened 

 on the face. 



ft Flowers subcorymbosely cymose. 



62. V. tenuifolia, W. <(- A. Prodr. 120 ; whole plant quite glabrous, 

 leaves membranous, tendrils simple or forked, peduncles long, cymes some- 

 what diffuse axillary but often owing to the sadden suppression of the flower- 

 bearins? branch appearing terminal, fruit the size of a pea 1-l-seedcd, 

 seed y by ^ in. triangular. V. paniculata, Herb. II<>!/nc in Wall. Cot. (]ol ", 

 m part, and b. Cissus japonica, IJV/A/. ,- I)C. Pnx*r. i. 632. C. tenuifolia, 

 in Wall. Cat. 6022 a, in j>r(. C. cymosa, Wall. Cat. 6017. C. 

 truncata, Wall. Cat. i> 



XII-AL, \\'nUifh; SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., /./).//.; the Kn.\sr.v Mrs., 

 I'.II;MA. 1'Ki.r. TKN A>~KKIM, and MALACCA. WKSTKKX I'EXIXSULA, in the 

 Southern provinces. PISTKJH. Oiina and .Japan. 



t slender, herbaceous. Petioli 2 I in.; leaflets shortly stalked, 1-3 by ^-2 in., 



. / 



lanceolate or oyftte-iKDOdofotft, acute, sharply serr.ite. 71 /^//S'/x short, slender. / 



in divaricating dichotomies e\iiH-<, li-.exual. Xf>/l> >liort, stigma lar^e, subpeltato. 



rlobose. ticcd nmndcd and muricate on tlie hack, .sharply p 

 the face. 



c>:\. V. mollis, Tl'ill. f'.tf. r.02.") ; whole plant " covered with a ,-lmrt 

 soft pubescence, leaves membranous, flowers fruit and seed as in V. 



SIKKIM UIMAI.VVV : alt. 1 3000 ft., J. I). 11. KIIASIA Mrs., alt. 0-3000 ft. SILHET 

 an I C 



/)///// in haliit. l',tiole f-l^in.; leaflets conspicuously 

 stalked, 1^-3 by ^-1^ in., ovate, broadly lanceolate or subovate, serraio. 



^:i. V. lanceolaria, Hn.,-1,. f-7. Tnd. i. 412 (Cissus); whole plant quite 

 ^laiir us with M of llic inflorescence, branches round covered 



with corky warts or tuU'ivlrs, KMVTS between Heshv and eori;iceons, tendrils 

 simple, cynics very short and compact in the axils of the leaves, flowers 

 unisexual, fruit the size of a small cherry dry?, seed i in. subpyriforin 

 or almost globose. JIV/. Cat. (;oi:j, in part: II'. <( A. 1'mdr. 128; \Vitjht 

 Ic. t. 177; ra,,,l. Far. /'/. 1<1. V. muH<'ata, H r . & A. Prodr. 128; 



' 



Wall. Cat. (;<>ir> ; Winht I<: t. 7 crratifolia. II'. <6 A. Pr&fo. l'28(non 



Uottl.}. Cissus feminea, Rr,xb. /'/. ///'/. L 410; !)<'. Prodr. i. n:Jl. C. lan- 

 ceolaria, DC. Prodr. L63&: Oral,. c,,t. I},.,-,, //. I'l. :j:? ; T/iwaitts Enum. 63. 

 C. inuricata, Dalz. & Gibs. Jlomb. Fl. 40 ; Thwaites Enum. <>'.',. 



A88AM, PKCIU, and the KASTLIIN PKNINSTLA, from Tuua^s-Tim to Malacca. WESTERN 

 PiiNMN-rLA, from the C-oncan southwards. ('I:VI.I>N, ascending to 3000 ft. 



]>! iiclas woody. Leaves 5-foliolate, pedatc, more rarefy 3-foliolate ; peti 

 3 in.; leaflets 3-5 by 1-2 in., stalked, oblong-lanceolate, distantly serrate. /Style short, 

 stigma peltate sublooed, Fruit subfleshy ?, globose, l-4?-seeded. In all those speci- 

 mens which 1 have examined, the fruit has been 1-2- not 4-seeded as stated by Eox- 

 bnrgh, Wight, and Arnott, also smaller than a cherry. 



YAH. 1 ; stems smooth. This appears intermediate between V. lanceolaria and V. 

 flo '/,-.//, and in some respects answers better to Roxburgh's description of V. lanceo- 

 lariai\\A\\ the one given above. Assam. 



YAK. 2 ; aanimilta, KUKZ russ. (jp.); stems cylindric somewhat smooth, petiole 



