Vitis. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 475 



and smooth, very long, and slender, running over trees, &c. to a great 

 extent. — Tendrils leaf-opposed, generally two-parted, panicle-bear- 

 ing Leave* petioied, alternate, always opposite to a tendril, near- 

 ly of a round, cordate-lobate shape, with three, five, or seven rather 

 acute lobes ; margins serrate. dentate, pretty smooth on both sides- 

 length and breadth from three to nine inches. — Panicles issuing 

 solitarily from the middle of the tendrils before they divide, peduncles 

 ovate, dense. — Flowers very numerous, small, of adeep reddish brown. 



— Bractes linear. — Calyx small, obscurely five-toothed. Petals 



oblong, at first expanding, then reflexed. — Germ superior, nearly 

 round, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the bottom, of 

 the cell. Style none. Stigma a pit in the lubate apex of the germ. 

 — Berry of the size, shape, and appearance of a black currant, rarely 

 more than two-seeded. — Perisperm conform to the seed. — Embryo 

 erect, in the lower half of the perisperm. Cotyledons nearly round. 

 Radicle iuferior. 



4. V. parvifolia, R. 



Leaves angle-cordate, three-lobed, crenate-serrate, smooth; Sti- 

 pules oval. Thyrses leaf-opposed, few-flowered. 



A slender, perennial vine, of exactly the habit of the common 

 grape vine ; a native of the eastern part of Bengal. Flowers in Fe- 

 bruary,* 



Stems and old branches ligneous, considerably flattened, ten or 

 twelve feet high. Bark dark brown, with the exterior lamina thin, 

 and frequently peeling o&^young shoots somewhat angular, and pret- 

 ty smooth. — Leaves simple, cordate, sometimes three-lobed, crenate- 

 serrate, apex somewhat attenuate, smooth on both sides, about two 

 inches long. — Tendrils bifid. — Stipules oval, caducous. — Thyrses op- 

 posite to the leaves, diverging, very small, and only a little longer than 

 the petioles. — Flowers very minute, green. — Calyx obscurely five- 

 lobed. — Petals five, cohering, and falling off in one body. ^-Nectary 



* Common also in all parts of Nipal ; see oba. under V. glandulosa, p. 479.— N. W 



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