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9. V. repens, W. ef A.: Kurz F. Fl. i. 275. 



A large climber. Branches often white, mealy. L. glabrous, ovate from a 

 cordate base, acuminate, not lobed, with distant hairy teeth, blade 2-4, petiole 

 ] — — V in. Cymes large, half the length of leaf, peduncle 1-2| in., seed usually 

 one. 



sikkim, Khasi lulls. Assam, Chittagong, Burma. West side of tin' Peninsula. Fl. 

 June-Sept. (Khasi) March (Kanara). .Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



ID. V. quadrangularis, Wall.: Wight Ic. t. 51 : Brandis F. Fl. 100. 

 Vern. /Lirsmt/.-m; Bomb. : Xalleru, Tel. 



A perennial climber. Branches dichotomous, succulent, quadrangular, con- 

 stricted at the nodes, angles winged. L. flesh}-, entire, broad-ovate to 3-5-lobed, 

 blade J-2, petiole |-| in. Berry red, 1-seeded. 



North-West India. Western Peninsula. Fl. 1!. S. Eastern tropical Africa, Arabia, 

 Malay Archipelago. 



B. L. simple. Fl. pentamerous. Cymes arrauged in panicles (spikes in 

 I'. indica), inflorescence usually on the tendril. 



11. V. vinifera, Linn.: Brandis F. Fl. US. The Grape Vine. D&M, 

 Hind. 



A large woody climber, tendrils long, bifid. L. glabrous above, clothed be- 

 neath with grey floccose deciduous tomentum, from a cordate base nearly 

 orbicular, more or less deeply 5-lobed, edge cut into large uneq.ua] acute teeth; 

 basal nerves 5, the midrib with 4-5 pair of prominent sec. n., petiole generally 

 shorter than leaf, but longer than half its length. Fl. greeu, fragrant, petals 

 cohering at the top. Fr. 3-5-seeded. 



Indigenous in Armenia, tin' Caucasus and other parts ef Western Asia, probably 



also in G-r e. Apparently wild in the Nbrth-Wesl Himalaya. Cultivated in 



Kashmir, Kunawar (the vineyards mostly destroyed 1'..' \' ii !<■-■ I i~. m -■ ■ hetween lsr>5 and 

 I860), the plains ef North-West India and the Di an. 



12. V. lanata, Roxb. (King Journ. As. Sec. Beng. vol. 65 1897 . 

 p. Ill); Jacquem. Vby. Bot. t. 36. Chakcha, Bussahir; Jarila lara, Nep. ; 

 Got lr-ltiid, Sundrib. 



A powerful woody climber. Branches, petioles and inflorescence more or 

 less woolly. L. from a flat or c irdate base, ovate, acuminate, dentate, angled 

 or indistinctly lobed, more or less clothed beneath with sofl rusty tomentum. 

 Cymes arranged in large compound panicles, mic of the lower branches often 

 terminating in a tendril or developed into a second panicle, giving the appear- 

 ance of a bifurcate inflorescence, petals cohering al the apex. Seed 1. 



Subhimalayan tract, ascending to 5,000 ft., from BCazara eastward. Assam, Khasi 

 hills, Manipur, Easi I '.■ -i i - .-> 1 . Chittagong. lim-ma. Fl, April, May. This spe 

 varies considerably in regard to the tomentum, A form, which is almost glabrous, is 



know n r ion i Kum.'i the Khasi hills, and Burma. These glabrous specimens are verj 



similar to 18. V. parvifolia, Eioxb., a species of Kashmir, Kumaon and Nepal, with 

 acuminate I. 2 '■'< in. long, I 2 in. broad. Fl, in short racemiform panicles 1 2 in. 

 long. II. V. rugosa, Wall. Kumaon, Burma, with edible grapes, has larger leaves 6 12 

 in. long, with dense reddish-brown tomentum beneath. Fl. deep red, the petals not 



cohering. In these (11 14) and other si ies with paniculate inflorescence, it 



often happens that the lowesl branch of the panicle bears a second panicle, giving 

 the appeari e of a bifurcate inflorescence. 



16. V. latiiolia, Roxb. j Brandi F Fl. 99 Panibel, Hindj Mtual Murie, Ajm. 

 Plains of North India. Etajputana, Behar, Bengal, Assam. Peninsula. t«. denselj 

 pubescent beneath, nearly orbicular from a cordate base, angled or B-lobed, lobes 

 dentate, tendrils long, bind. Cymes on the tendrils in pyramidal often bifut 

 panicles, 16. v. barbata, Wall, Assam, Khasi hills, plains of Bengal, Burma. 

 Branches, petioles and Inflorescence clothed with soft woolly hair and long thin 

 brown bristles. I., clothed beneath with floccose pubescence, cordate, with large 



rounded basal lobes, I l" In. long, Cj in large pyramidal panicles, hairs \ In. 



long, 17. V. indica, Dawson. Fl, Brit, tnd, i, 658 {Nardil, Mar!) West side of 

 Peninsula, from the Konkan southwards. Branches, inflorescence, petioles and 



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