Ftfis.] VITACEAE. 227 



Flowers hermaphrodite ; tendrils leaf-opposed : 



Petals 5, spreading or sometimes calyptrate ; flowers in terminal 

 or leaf-opposed dichotomous cymes ending in umbellules ; leaves 



trifoliolate ; seeds globose, smooth 4. Parthenocissus. 



Petals 4, at first connivent, then separating : 



Berry usually 1-seeded, the seeds ellipsoid or pyriform ; smooth 

 or facetted or pitted, the albumen with 3 vertical lobes; leaves 



usually simple, sometimes 3-foliolate or digitate 5. Cissus. 



Berry 2-4-seeded ; seeds hemispheric with deep pits, oblong 

 angular or pyriform ; albumen only sometimes with 3 vertical 



lobes; leaves 3-foliolate or pedate or digitate 0. Cayratia. 



Erect shrubs without tendrils; stamens free or connate at their 

 margins, the filaments inserted in the lobes'of a staminal tube ; ovary 

 3-6-celled, cells 1-ovuled; leaves large, simple or 1-3-pinnate. 



7. Leea. 



i. Yitis, L. (reduced). 



Shrubs, usually climbing, with tendrils opposite to the leaves 

 or on the peduncles. Leaves simple, variously lobed; stipules 

 2, deciduous. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, in leaf-opposed thyrses. 

 Calyx cupular, with 5 obscure teeth. Petals 5, coherent by their 

 tips and deciduous as a calyptra. Stamens 5 ; filaments slender, 

 long in <$ shorter in <$ ; anthers introrse. Disk of 5 hypogynous 

 glands, sometimes confluent. Ovary 2-celled, 2 ovules in each 

 cell; styles very short or 0; stigma obtuse. Fruit a 2-celled 

 succulent berry. Seeds 4 or less, pyriform, 2-furrowed on the 

 face, 1-furrowed on the back with a prominent rounded or elliptic 

 chalaza. 



VITIS LANATA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. i. 651 in part: W. & A. 131 in 

 part. 



E. Ghats, in the Hills of Yizagapatam and Godavari at 

 2,000-3,500 ft. 



A climbing shrub with porous wood, dark brown bark, ovate- 

 cordate slightly 3 -lobed leaves and small globose fruit, the 

 young shoots and under surface of the leaves covered with 

 cinnamomeous wool. 



Vitis wnifera, L. the Yine, is not much cultivated in Madras, 

 but good fruit has been grown in the Deccan Hills as in Mysore 

 and Kurnool. 



