228 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Tetrastigma. 



2. Tetrastigma, Planch. 



Climbing shrubs with simple or forked tendrils, the steins and 

 branches often flattened. Leaven usually pedate with 5-7 leaflets, 

 sometimes 1- or 3-foliolate. ^/owerspolygamo-dioecious, in axillary 

 rarely leaf-opposed cymes, the cymes corymbose, 2-3-chotomous, 

 puberulous. Calyx cupular, scarcely lobed, very small. Petals 4, 

 spreading or recurved in flower, the tip usually mucronate- 

 hooded. Stamens 4, in $ flowers very much reduced and stami- 

 nodial. Disk hypogynons, more or less persistent in fruit. 

 Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell ; style short ; stigma 

 4-lobed. Fruit a 1-4-seeded berry, usually succulent, sometimes 

 nearly dry. Seeds globose, oblong or pyriform, convex on the 

 back with a prominent chalaza, 2- or forked-furrowed on the face, 

 often crenately channelled on the sides, albumen ruminate. 



Berry small, about '25 in. in diam., seed smooth, globose ; stems not 



or little tuberculate : 



Leaves usually pedately 5-foliolate, leaflets lanceolate or oblanceo- 

 late, sharply acuminate, distantly but prominently serrate, more or 



less fleshy, not prominently reticulate 1. lanceolarium. 



Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets elliptic, obtusely acuminate, entire or 

 nearly so, submembranous, prominently reticulate 2. canarense. 



Berry rather large, over '5 in. in diam. ; seed oblong or pyriform, 



crenate on margin ; stems tuberculate : 



Seed oblong, with a clavate chalaza on back and 2 deep furrows on 

 face, crenatures slight ; leaves large, pedately 5-foliolate, acumi- 

 nate, crenate on margins 3. sulcatum. 



Seed pyriform, chalaza on back oblong, furrows on face shallow, 

 marginal crenatures deep ; leaves small, 3-foliolate or sometimes 

 pedately 5-foliolate, uppermost often 3-foliolate, acute, glabrous, 

 margins shortly serrate 4. muricatum. 



1. TETRASTIGMA LANCEOLARIUM, Planch. Vitis lanceolaria 

 Roxb.; F. B. I. i. 660; W. & A. 128; Wt. Ic. t. 177. 

 V. serratifolia, W. & A. 128. 



N. Circars and Deccan to the E. slopes of the Nilgiris up 



to 5,000 ft. 



A large climber with flattened stems and dry fruit. 



2. TETRASTIGMA CANARENSE, Gamble n. comb. Vitis cana- 

 rensis, Dalz. ; F. B. I. i. 655. 



W. Ghats, in Wynaad at 3,000 ft. (Lawson). 



