336 BENGAL PLANTS 
Order XL. AMPELIDEZ. 
trees; rarely subherbaceous; juice copious, wil 
alternate, usually petioled, simple or digitately or pedately, rare! 
pinnately or twice pinnately compound, frequently gland-dotted; 
petiole usually thickened at ah articulate base and often ex] 
in a membranous stipule. Flowers regular, horns ot 
calyx. Petals 4-5, free or connate, valvate. caducous. Stamens 
4-5, opposite the petals, inserted at base of disk or between its 
lobes; filaments short subulate ; anthers free or connate; short, 
2-celled; dehiscence longitudinal introrse. Carpels connate as 
eis or imperfectly 2-6-locular ovary, usually partially ' sunk 
e disk; style short, slender or conical, or 0; stigma sm 
— flat, slightly lobed; ovules 1-2 in each cell, ascending, 
anatropous, raphe ventral. Fruit indehiscent, berry-like, 1 
— cells 1-2-seeded. Seed erect, often rugulose ; albumen 
artilaginous ; embryo short basal. 
Sane cirrhose shrubs or herbs ; stamens free; ovary 2- ile 
Erect shrubs without tendrils ; stamens connate with disk slong with the 
petals; ovary 3-6-locular, cells 1-ovuled age 
188. Vitis Linn. 
Shrubs or subherbaceous plants, climbing usually by leaf-op 
tendrils rarely by adventitious roots; leaves simple, or on 
and then digitate or pedate, rarely pinnate or 2- eae 
adnate to base of petiole, membranous, or 0. Were ao 
aie or free; disk conspicuous or sm halt or 0. Stamens a 
serted below the margin of the disk; anthers free. Ovary pee 
rarely 3-4-locular; style short or 0; ovules 2 in each 10% | 
Fruit ovoid or globose, indehiscent, berry- aes ee aa 
1-2-seeded. Seeds with a hard testa; album e 
embryo minute bas 
