Ampelocissits.'] VITACEAE. 229 



A climber with trifoliolate leaves and red (or dead white 

 Dalzell) berry, liked by monkeys. 



3. TETRASTTGMA SULCATUM, Gamble, n. comb. Vitis sulcatd, 

 Laws. ; F. B. I. i. 661. 



W. Ghats, from Malabar and W. Nilgiris to the Anamalais 



and Travancore Hills up to 4,500 ft. 



A large climber with thick stems and large green berry. 



4. TETRASTIGMA MURICATUM, Gamble n. comb. Vitis muri- 



cata, Wall. ; W. & A. 660; Wt. Ic. t. 740. V. lanceolaria. 



Laws, in F. B. I. i. 660 in part; Wt. Ic. t. 28 not o/Roxb. 



W. Ghats, in most Districts and up to 6,000 ft., fairly 



common. 



A large climber with prominently warted branchlets. 



3. Ampelocissus, Planch. 



Climbing shrubs, with tendrils on the peduncles. Leaves 

 simple, entire or lobed, sometimes digitate or pedate or biternate. 

 Flowers polygamo-moiioecious, pseudo-hermaphrodite, in leaf- 

 opposed pedunculate cymes or thyrses, the peduncles tendril- 

 bearing. Calyx cupular, with 4-5 obscure teeth. Petals 4-5, 

 spreading or recurved in flower. Stamens 4-5, inserted without 

 the disk ; filaments slender. Disk annular, erect, often vertically 

 5-10-furrowed. Ovary 2-celled, immersed more or less in the 

 disk ; 2 ovules in each cell; style short, conical, often 10-furrowed ; 

 stigma small in $, discoid in (J. Fruit a, 2-3-seeded succulent 

 berry. Seeds oblong or obovoid, convex on the back, 2 -furrowed, 

 with a broad keel (raphe) on the face, often crenately cleft on the 

 margins. 



Disk short, thin, embracing merely the base of the ovary, not 



furrowed : 



Cyme thick-branched, woolly: 



Leaves orbicular-cordate or 3-7-angled or -lobed, eimiamomeous- 

 tomentose beneath, seeds obcordate, crenate on the margins, 2- 

 f arrowed and keeled 011 the face, pitted on the back and with 



prominent ray-like clefts 1. tomentosa. 



Leaves 3-foliolate, the side leaflets semi-cordate, the middle one 

 ovate, greyish browii-tomentose beneath ; seeds obovate but not 

 crenate on the margins, broadly ridged on the face, pitted and 



with shallow rays on the back 2. araneosa. 



Cyme nearly or quite glabrous ; leaves thin, 3- rarely 5-foliolate 



