Vitis. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 477 



hpsis and Botria, Lour, are so poor and vague, that they hardly 

 admit of being employed for the purpose of affording the sub-divisi- 

 ons of one genus, and much less for desciiminating four genera. I 

 conform therefore, without hesitation to the decision of Mr. Brown, 

 in the appendix to Tuckey's Expedition to Congo, p. 4-Go, by which 

 they all become united under / ill's. Besides those, which i am now 

 adding, I have a great number of species, the publication of which I 

 must reserve for another opportunity. The tribs is a difficult one, 

 a. ul requires much caution, in order to avoid confusion. 



The plant just described comes near to Roxburgh's Cissus cordata 

 (repens, Lam.) which I have found both in flower and fruit at Sin- 

 gapore in October, and which (at least one closely allied to it), I have 

 also from Silhet; but it differs in the oblong-cordate obtuse leaves, 

 four-cornered stem and branches, and its long corymbs of alternate 

 umbells ; the flowers are larger, It is not far removed from Loureiro's 

 (J. umbellala, which differs, chiefly, in having most entire, opposite 

 leaves and woolly petals. 



The berries of Ivoxburgh's L. cordata are larger than those of 

 Rlieede's Meviam-pulli, and one-seeded, as correctly observed by that 

 author and by Rumphius, in treating of his Funis crepitans minor, 

 Herb. Amb. v. 416. t. l6h f. 2.— N. W, 



G. V. gracilis, Wall. 



Stem filiform, villous while quite young. Leaves ovate-cordate, 

 a'teuuate and acuminate, cuspidate-dentate, pubescent above, with 

 villous nerves underneath. Stipules semi-cordate, villous. Spikes 

 filiform, most numerous, short, forming elongated, long-peduncled, 

 cirrhiferous, villous clusters. Flowers minute, four-cleft. Berries 

 three-seeded. 



1 found this at Singapore in flower and fruit in September. 



This is an extremely slender species with filiform stem and branch- 

 es, which are scarcely thicker than a crow-quill ; all the young parts 

 as also the petiols, nerves of the leaves and inflorescence covered 

 with dense cinnamon-coloured down. — Leaves three inches long, 



