230 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Ampelocissus. 



the side leaflets semicordate, the end one lanceolate, thinly grey- 

 pubescent beneath , 3. divaricata. 



Disk short, thick, 5-furrowed ; leaves orbicular or cordate, rounded or 

 3-5-angled or -lobed, glabrous ; inflorescence a small compact puberu- 



lous thyrse ; seed oblong, crenate on the margin 4. latifolia. 



Disk elongate, thickened, embracing most of the ovary, 5-furrowed ; 

 leaves orbicular cordate, the margins denticulate-serrate with hard 

 points : 



Flowers in often very large very thick compound cymes, sessile or 

 subsessile in the middle of copious wool; calyx also with long 



hairs 5. erioclada. 



Flowers in sessile umbels with slender pedicels in short racemes, 

 woolly at base at first, later on nearly free from it ; calyx without 

 long hairs 6. Arnottiana. 



1. AMPELOCISSUS TOMENTOSA, Planch. Vitis tomentosa. 

 Heyne; F. B. I. i. 650; W. & A. 130; Wt. 111. t. 57. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in hill forests ; W. Ghats, 

 from Coorg to the Anainalais up to 5,000 ft. 

 A large climbing vine with scarlet flowers ; young shoots 

 and leaves and stems with much cinnamomeous wool, the 

 leaves variable in shape and lobes. 



2. AMPELOCISSUS ARANEOSA, Planch. Vitis araneosus, Lawson ; 

 F. B. I. i. 657. 



W. Ghats, in the ^Nilgiri, Pulney and Anamalai Hills, 



Shevaroy Hills of Salem, up to 4,500 ft. 



A slender far-climbing shrub, the leaves sometimes merely 



lobed. 



3. AMPELOCISSUS DIVARICATA, Planch. Vitis divaricata, 

 Wall, ; F. B. I. i. 657. 



E. Ghats in the Madgol Hills of Vizagapatani at 3,500 ft. 

 (A. W. Lushington). 



A slender climber with thin long-acuminate usually 3- 

 foliolate leaves. 



4. AMPELOCISSUS LATIFOLIA, Planch. Vitis latifolia, Roxb. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 652 : W. & A. 130. 



, N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic in hill forest regions, 

 westwards to the Nilgiri and Anamalai slopes. 

 A rather slender herbaceous climbing vine with thin broad 

 variable glabrous leaves, only the young shoots and 

 inflorescence pubescent. 



