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10. Cissus DISCOLOR, Blume. Vitis discolor, Dalz. ; F. B. I. i. 

 647. F. innequai;$, W. & A. 125. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats, in evergreen forest, up to 

 4,000 ft, 



A slender climber with red branches and pedicels and very 

 pretty blotched leaves, often cultivated. 



11. Cissus GLYPTOCARPA, Planch. Vitis glyptocarpa , Thw. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 646. 



W. Ghats, W. slopes of Nilgiris at 1,000 ft. (Lawson), 

 Tiimevelly Hills (Barber). 



A slender climbing shrub with winged branchlets and 

 conspicuously pitted seeds. 



12. Cissus SETOSA, Roxb. Vitis setosa, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 654 ; 

 W. & A. 127; Wt, Ic. t, 170. 



Deccan and Carnatic, in dry localities, extending westwards 



to the E. slopes of the W. Ghats. 



A herbaceous rambler with fleshy steins and leaves and a 



red hairy berry, the whole plant very acrid. 

 Cissus gigantea, Planch ; Vitis gigantea, Bedd, is a little 

 known species of very large size, near C. repanda, Vahl, with 

 deeply cordate nearly glabrous leaves, in the Anamalai Hills at 

 2,000 ft. 



6. Cayratia, Juss. 



Climbing shrubs with tendrils opposite to the leaves. Leaves 

 alternate, trifoliolate or pedate ; stipules 2, small. F towers herma- 

 phrodite, tetramerous, in axillary or pseudo-terminal corymbs or 

 umbels. Calyx cupular, not or rarely toothed. Petals 4, valvate, 

 sometimes corniculate, more or less cucullate within. Stamens 

 4, inserted round the disk ; anthers introrse. Disk entire, sinuate 

 or lobed, adnate with the ovary. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in 

 each cell ; style subulate ; stigma indistinct. Fruit a 2-4-seeded 

 berry, usually dry. Seeds obcordate, smooth or angular, hemi- 

 spheric pyriform or oblong, convex on the back, with 1 or 2 ventral 

 cavities covered with a membrane, the section of the albumen 

 often making a crescent or a T ; cotyledons small, ovate ; radicle 

 small. 



Seed hemispheric, sect on of seed-albumen more or less crescent- 

 shaped : 



