478 TENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Vltis. 



membranous, tapering into a sharp acumen, margin rounded, mark- 

 ed with remotish, cuspidate teeth ; the under side marked with three 

 nerves at the base, besides several opposite, parallel ones; veined; 

 lobes of the base rounded ; sinus very small. Fetiol about one- 

 third the length of the leaf itself. Clusters extremely slender, pen- 

 dulous, tapering from the base, about three inches long, equalling 

 their filiform -peduncles, which bear a simple tendril at the middle. 

 Spikes very numerous, filiform, btown, villous, sessile, the lower- 

 most often geminate, an inch long, the rest gradually shorter. 

 Flowers exceedingly small, four-cleft, approximate, globular, sessile, 

 villous. Berries ovate, with three triangular, large seeds. — N. W. 



7. V. bar bat a, Wall. 



Stem, branches, petiols and peduncles covered with copious long 

 capitate bristles. Leaves round-cordate, sinuato-dentate, slightly 

 three-lobed, smoothish. Clusters disposed in oval bunches bear- 

 ing a dichotomous tendril. Flowers four-cleft. Style none. 



A native of the district of Szlhet, and from thence communicated 

 by Mr. De Silva ; it flowers in August. 



Beng. Tagora (ttttft?). 



This is a remarkable species and cannot he confounded with any 

 of the rest. It approaches to V. I at if alia, —The stem and branches 

 long, cylindric, very thickly beset with long, pale, ferruginous, subu- 

 late, capitate, spreading, rather softish bristles. Leaves very Iar<re, 

 acuminate, five-nerved, veined, a little woolly along the vessels on 

 both sides ; the sinus at the base deep and narrow, the lobes very 

 large, rounded, and approaching each other. — Petiols about half 

 the length of the leaves, bristly, with a pair of small stipules at 

 the base.— The bunches consist of numerous short villous racemes 

 of four-cleft, smooth, sub-sessile flowers. Common peduncle bristly, 

 equalling the petiol, btaring a very long smoothish, twice dicho- 

 tomous tendril above its middle. Nectarial ring and style wauting= 

 -N. W. 



