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when dry ; fruiting pedicels slender ; berry-top oblong, 



seeds with a faint crescent ridge on the face 6. vepanda, 



Seeds tessellated on either side of the raphe with angular facets : 

 Very tomentose ; pedicels usually recurved in fruit : 



Tomontum grey ; leaves broadly cordate, 5-angled or sometimes 

 -lobed, conspicuously blunt-serrate ; berry blue, glaucous 



7. vitiginea. 

 Tomentum ferruginous; leaves broadly cordate, acuminate, with 



inconspicuous bristly serratures ; berry black 8. adnata. 



Glabrous, the branchlets glaucous ; pedicels erect in fruit ; leaves 

 cordate, rounded above with an abrupt acumen, bristly serrate, 



nearly black when dry 9. glauca. 



Seeds with pits in lines on either side of the raphe : 



Slender climbing plants, glabrous or nearly so ; berries glabrous : 

 Seeds obovoid ; branchlets subangular, red, herbaceous ; leaves 

 ovate, cordate, acuminate, blotched with pink and white on the 

 upper surface, purple on the lower ; berry reddish-purple 



10. discolor. 



Seeds obtriangular ; branchlets 4-winged, soft ; leaves ovate, 

 truncate-cordate at base, green ; berry black-purple 



11. glyplocarpa. 



Fleshy herbaceous plants, very bristly setose, especially the berries ; 

 leaves trif oliolate, the leaflets sharply serrate ; berry bright red, 

 the seeds deeply pitted and crenate on the margins 12. setosa. 



1. Cissus QUADRANGULARIS, Linn. Vitis quadrangularis, 

 Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 645 ; W. & A. 125 ; Wt. Ic. t. 51. 



N. Circars. Deccan and Carnatic, in dry regions, extending 



west to the lower E. slopes of W. Ghats and south to S. 



Travancore. 



A much rambling shrub, the branches climbing over 



bushes to a long distance. Yern. Tel. Nalleru ; Mai. 



C hangalaparaiida. 



2. Cissus TRILOBATA, Lamk. Vitis Rheedii, W. & A. 127 ; 

 F. B. I. i. 653. 



W. Coast and W. slopes of W. Ghats in Malabar and 



Travancore up to 3,000 ft, 



A weak fleshy- stemmed climbing shrub with white berries. 



3. Cissus REPENS ? Lamk. Vitis repens, W. and A. 125 ; 

 F. B. I. i. 646. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats from S. Canara to the Anamalais 

 and Travancore, up to 4,000 ft. 



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