478 FENTANDRFA MONOGYNIA. Vitis. 



five rounded scales, embracing the base of the germ, alternate with 

 the filaments.— Filaments five, length of the germ, at first erect, but 

 by age b^comiug recurved. Anthers ovate — Germ round, four- 

 celled, with q e ovulum in each, attached to the base of the axis. 

 Style scarcely any. Stigma obscurely lobed. 



Additional species by N. W% 



5. V. ctlalerrima, Wall. 



Smooth, tleshy. Stem four-cornered. Leaves ovate-oblong, sub- 

 cordate, sub-obtuse, remotely bristle-crenate. Corymbs equalling 

 the leaves, sub-simple, consisting of -4 number of umbeUets. Flow- 

 ers quadrirld, nectariferous, with linear-oblong petals. Berries two. 

 j celled. Stipules fleshy oval glands, 



A native uf Pinang, where it was found by Mr. Porter in flower 

 in December, 



This is a rleshy ramous species, smooth on all its parts, with 

 [ slender, obtusely four-cornered, jointed stem and branches. The 

 former is woody at the base. Leaves alternate, from three to five 

 inches long, with very remote small crenatures, in each of which 

 there is a short bristle; obtuse, rarely acute, triuerved at the base, 

 baving, besides, some remote, sub-opposite, lateral nerves; veinless; on 

 petiols of about an inch or an inch and a half long. Stipules opposite, 

 fleshy, oval, obtuse, glandular. There are no tendrils observable in 

 any of my specimens. C01 ymbs oblong, opposite to a leaf or termi- 

 nal, divided into several alternate branches, each containing two or 

 three umbels of large, greenish, smooth Jlowers, which are oblong 

 before expansion. Tedicels half an inch long. — Calyx fiatttsh, 

 almost truncate. — Petals nearly three lines long. Stamina four, 

 surrounding a four-lobed nectary. Berry two-celled ; the ripe one 

 not observed. 



Obs. The marks by which Vilis is separated from Cissus, Ampe* 



