Yitis. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 479 



8. V. gldttdufosa, Wall 



Slem dotted, raughieh. Branches villous. Leaves broad-cordate, 

 ovate, three-Jobed throughout, villous underneath, with the axils of the 

 nerves glandular. Tendrils dichotomous. Corymbs short, dichotomous. 



I have found this on the mountains about the valley of Nipal, wfiere 

 ii blossoms with the other VimfertE, chiefly, during the rainy season, 

 ripening its fruit towards the close in September and October. — In 

 the Hon. Company's botanic garden at Calcutta it blossomed freely 

 in May and June. 



Stems round, with grayish dotted bark ; branches round, slender, 

 jomted, pubescent. Leaves broad ovate.cordate, acuminate, three- 

 lobed, sometimes with two additional lobes towards the base; lobes 

 acute, grossly dentate, teeth rounded, ending in a short cuspis; four or 

 five inches long, five-nerved, pubescent above, villous underneath, 

 with opposite lateral nerves, and with a hairy pit in all the axils of 

 the principal vessels. — Petiol slender, pubescent, about half as long- 

 as the leaf. — Stipules semicordate, membranous, withering. — Flowers 

 small, five-cleft, s moothish, disposed in short dichotomous corymbs. 

 Peduncles pubescent, cummon one equalling the leaf and often 

 bearing a twice or thrice dichotomous tendril. — Nectarial ring cre- 

 nate, five-lobed. Berry small, round, deep purple, four-seeded, 

 smooth. 



Obs. This species comes near to V. parvifolia, Roxb. which is 

 very common on the mountains of Nipal and Sirmore, but differs in 

 the following points. Its stem is scabrous somewhat ash-coloured and 

 the branches jointed, villous ; in the other the stem is covered with a 

 smooth, brown, separating epidermis, the branches are without joints, 

 and only here and there furnished with a little loosely adhering 

 wool. Its leaves are rather larger, with broad rounded teeth, three- 

 lobed throughout, and villous underneath; in Roxburgh's plant they are 

 sometimes without any lobes at all, the teeth are acute, and the un- 

 der surface smooth except a fascicle of hairs in the primary axils 

 of the vessels. The inflorescence of the latter forms a bunch, consist- 



