Parthenocissus.'] VITACEAE. 231 



5. AMPELOCISSUS ERIOCLADA, Planch. Viiis erioclackt, W. & 

 A. 130; F. B. Li. 651. 



W. Ghats, Hills of Tinnevelly (Wight, etc.). 



A stout climber with hollow cylmdric stem and large 



thick-branched panicles of cymes. 



6. AMPELOCISSUS AKNOTTIANA, Planch. Vitis indica, W. & A. 

 131 ; F. B. I. i. 653 not of Linn. 



W. Coast and "W. Ghats from S. Canara to Tinnevelly, up 



to 3,000 ft. in Wynaad. 



A slender climbing shrub, the branches and leaves covered 



with much ferruginous wool; the flowers in short dense 



racemes of umbels, the seed convex and rugose on the 



back, hollowed in 2 cavities in front with a sharp ridge 



between. 



4. Parthenocissus, Planch. 



Climbing shrubs with much-branched tendrils , opposite the 

 leaves, the tendril-branches ending in disks which attach them- 

 selves to objects ; stems often short thick-barked. Leaves tri- 

 foliolate, long-petiolate. side leaflets semicordate at base on the 

 outer, narrowly contracted on the inner side. Flowers hermaph- 

 rodite, in terminal or leaf-opposed branched dichotomous cymes, 

 ending in umbellules. Calyx cupular, irregularly 5-dentate. 

 Petals 5, induplicate-valvate, spreading -or sometimes calyptrate, 

 each petal hooded at the tip and with, a usually bifid acumen. 

 Stamens 5, inserted under the disk ; anthers oblong. Disk thin 

 and obscure, adnate to the base of the ovary. Ovary ovoid, 2- 

 celled ; style short, thick ; stigma small, capitate ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit a- rarely 2-4-seeded berry. Seeds globose, 

 smooth, with a narrow raplie half -encircling. 

 PARTHENOCISSUS NEILGHERBIENSIS, Planch. - Vitis neilgher- 

 rlensis, Wt. Ic. t. 965. Vitis himalayana, Braiidis ; F. B. I. i. 

 655 in part. V. anctmalayana, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 656. 



W. Ghcits, from the Nilgiris to the Aiiainalai and Puliiey 

 Hills, up to 6,000 ft, 



A vast climber (Lawson) with large leaves, the leaflets often 

 6 in. long, cuspidate -serrate and usually very long-acuminate 

 at the tips. 



