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30. AMPELIDEiE. 



[Vitis 



entire. Petals 4-5, free or cohering. Stamens 4-5, opposite petals, 

 on outside of disc. Ovary 2-6-celled. Ovules 1-2 in each cell. 

 Fruit a berry. Seeds 1-6. Albumen ruminate. 



hfcandent shrubs, usually with tendrils. Ovary 2-colled, 



cells 2-ovuled Vitis. 



Erect shrubs, no tendrils. 

 1-ovuled 



Ovary 3-6-cellcd. Cells 



Leea. 



VITIS. 



Shrubs climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves simple or 3-9- 

 foliate. Flowers variously cymose, hermaphrodite, unisexual or poly- 

 gamous. Calyx 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5 free or cohering at apex. 

 Stamens 4-5. Ovary 2, rarelj^ 3-4-celled. Style or short. Ovules 

 2 in each cell. Fruit a berry 1-4-seeded. 



Leaves simple. 



Flowers tetrameroys, in umbels, 



interns and branches acutely winged 



Htems cylindric or obscurely angled. 



Leaves glabrous. 



Branchlets terete, white mealy ... 



Branchlets 6-angled... ... ... 



Branches fleshy, hollow 



Branches glaucous, cylindric, striate 



Leaves pubescent beneath. 



b'ubtomentose beneath 



Adpressed woolly tomentum beneath ... ... 



Paisty pubescent beneath ... ... 



Flowers pentamerous in umbels. 



Cymes woolly, iimbellate ... 



Cymes glaljrous, paniculate 



Cymes tomentose, paniculate 



Cymes spicate 



Leaves trifoliate. 



Flowers tetramerous. 



Plant glabrous ... , 



Plant covered with bristly hairs ... 



Plant piibescent. Fruit black, 4-seeded. Speeds 



tubercled 



Stems woody. Fruit globose or ovoid. Petals 5 ... 



Stems slender. Petals 5 



Leaves 5-foliate, digitate. 



Quite glabrous. Leaflets nearly sessile. Fruit black 



Pubescent. Leaflets long-stalked. Fruit red 



Leaves pedately 5-foliate. 



Flowers subcorymbosc. 



Stigma subpeltate ... ... ... 



Stigma 4-lobed. 



Stigma simple 



V. quadramjularis. 



V. repens. 

 V. di-irolor, 

 V. pallida. 

 V. rjlauca. 



V. (jigantea. 

 V. repanda. 

 V. adnata. 



V. tomentosa. 

 V. lati folia. 

 V. viinfera. 

 V. indica. 



V. Rheedii. 

 V, setusa. 



V. carnosa. 

 V. cnnarcnsis. 

 V. arancosus. 



V. elongata. 

 V. auriculata. 



V. tennifolia. 

 V. lanceolaria. 

 V. pedata. 



V. quadrangularis, Wall. Cat. 591)2 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 645 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 100 ; Cissus quadrangxdaris^ Linn. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 39. 

 C. edulis, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 40. Ilnrsanker, Vcm. Throughout 

 the driest districts of the presidency from Gujarat to Dharwdr. Fl. li.S. 

 Fr. C.S. 



