100 XXVI. AMPELIDEiE. [Vitis 



5000 to 6500 ft. (Mcadden Joum. As. Soc. vol. xvii. pt. i. 417), and resemble 

 V. lanata, but differs by larger leaves 6-12 in. long, deep red flowers, the petals 

 distinct, not cohering. Fl. July. Grapes edible, ripen Sept.-Oct. (whence the 

 first vern. name). In W. & A. Prodr., this sp. is united with V. lanata. 



5. V. indica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 660; W. & A. Prodr. 131. 



A large climber ; branches petioles and peduncles villose ; leaves hard, 

 firm, broad-ovate, 3-6 in. long, and of equal breadth, with a deep-cordate 

 base, not lobed or angled, but large- and shallow-crenate, the nerves ter- 

 minating in hard glandular teeth; under side rusty-tomentose, upper floc- 

 cose, at length glabrous. Flowers minute, pentamerous, yellowish green 

 or greenish purple, on slender pedicels, umbels sessile along the rachis of 

 a short compact cylindrical raceme, inserted about the middle of a long 

 bifid tendril. Petals distinct ; fruit globose, 1-2-seeded. 



South and probably Central India. Bengal. Fl. March, April. 



6/ V. adnata, Wall. ; W. & A. Prodr. 126. Syn. Cissus adnata, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 405 ; Wight Ic. t. 144. 



A large woody climber, young parts densely pubescent. Leaves broad- 

 ovate from cordate base, acuminate, angled, and sharp-dentate. Flowers 

 tetramerous, greenish yellow, in rounded leaf-opposed cymes ; petals dis- 

 tinct. Berry black when ripe. 



Sub-Himalayan tract. Oudh forests, Satpura range. Bengal, South India. 

 Fl. April-June. C. rosea, Royle 111. t. 26, is nearly allied to this, but has pink 

 flowers and larger leaves. Sewalik and Bhabar, Jumna to Sarda. 



7. V. quadrangularis, Wall. ; W. & A. Prodr. 125 ; Wight Ic. t. 51. 

 Syn. Cissus quadrangular is, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 407. Vern. Harjora, Beng. 



A perennial climber ; stems and branches dichotomous, succulent, quad- 

 rangular, constricted at the nodes, the angles winged. Leaves fleshy, vary- 

 ing from ovate and entire to cordate and deeply 3-lobed. Tendrils long, 

 generally simple, leaf-opposed. Flowers tetramerous, pink and white, in 

 umbelliform cymes, on short, leaf-opposed peduncles. Petals distinct. 

 Berry globose, size of a small pea, red, 1 -seeded. 



Common throughout tropical and subtropical India. Fl. R.S., fr. C.S. Ber- 

 ries very acid, leaves and tender shoots eaten. Dalzell, Bombay Fl. 40, calls this 

 Cissus edulis, and a nearly allied species without wings in Guzerat (vern. 

 Harsanker), he calls Cissus quadrangularis, Linn. 



8. V. himalayana. Syn. Ampelopsis himalayana, Royle 111. 149. 

 Vern. Chappar tang, Kamaon. 



A large soft-wooded climber or scrambling shrub ; glabrous, or youngest 

 shoots slightly pubescent. Leaves trifoliolate, smooth, shining ; leaflets 

 equally stalked, acuminate, sharp -serrate or dentate with cuspidate teeth, 

 the terminal leaflet ovate or obovate ; main lateral nerves 6-10 pair, the 

 two lateral leaflets very unequal-sided, falcate, or semicordate, all reticulate 

 beneath with prominent veins. Stipules oblong, early deciduous. Flowers 

 yellowish green, pentamerous, in compound, trichotOmous, leaf-opposed, 

 spreading cymes. Peduncles as long as, or shorter than, petiole of the 

 opposite leaf. 





