•^74 fENTANURIA MONOGYNIA. Vitis. 



■ saucar-shaped body, surrounding the base of the germ.— Filaments 

 five, nearly as long as the petals.— Germ superior, nearly round, tuo- 

 celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the bottom of the cell. 

 Style none. Stigma &ve-\obed. 



2. V. lanata, R. 



Shrubby, climbing. Leaves cordate, serrate, woolly underneath. 

 Racemes panicled, leaf-opposed. Petals cohering at top. 



A native of the forests amongst the Cucar mountains. Flowering 

 time the cold season.* 



Trunk woody, climbing over trees, Sic. ; young shoots very long, 

 covered with a little rusty wool.— Tendrils opposite, simple, or split. 

 — Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, serrate ; above a little woolly, 

 below much so; four inches long, by three broad — Petioles round, 

 woolly, two inches long. — Peduncles opposite, composed of com- 

 pound racemes, a little woolly — Flowers very numerous, small, 

 green, fascicled. — Petals cohering at the top; when they drop they 

 seem to be a monopetalous corol, and what was the top must then 

 be considered as the bottom. — Berries round, purple, succulent, size 

 of a pea, one- or two-seeded. 



3. V. latifolia, R. 



Herbaceous, climbing. Leaves cordate-lobate, crenate-serrate, 

 smooth. Tendrils panicle-bearing. Petals oblong. Germs em- 

 braced by a nectarial cup. 



Vallia-Pira-Pitica, Rheed. mal. vii. 13. i. 7. 



Heng. Govila. 



A native of Bengal and of the warmer maritime parts of India, 

 blossoming about the beginning of the rainy season ; and ripening 

 its fruit in July. 



Root tuberous. — Stem and branches herbaceous, climbing, round, 



* Also common in Bengal and Behar. r suspect that V. lommtosa and triloba, Roth. nor. 

 spec. 157, are varieties of this plant.— N. W. 



