Vitis: FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 48i 



This singular species was communicated to me by Mr. De Silva 

 from the JwyMnUya mountains on the eastern frontiers of Bengal 

 where it blossoms in June. 



Beng. Rajgagee (?K5W1^t). 



It appears to be a large climbing shrub. — Stem brown, smooth, 

 as thick as a common ratan. Branchlets slender, villous, angular. 

 — Leaves about six inches long. Common footstalk densely beset 

 with brownish short hairs. Leaflets from seven to eleven, about 

 two and a half inches long, smooth above, a little villous underneath; 

 the lowermost on petiols measuring nearly half an inch, the rest short- 

 petioled ; the odd or terminal one mostly sub-ovate; they are all 

 marked with large cuspidate, unequal serratures, without being in 

 the least lobed. — Tendrils leaf-opposed, bifid. — Corymbs slender, 

 open, dichotomous, slightly villous. 



Obs. Mr. De Silva informs me that the flowers are fragrant and 

 of a yellowish green colour and that the fruit is esculent. 1 have only 

 seen the former in a very imperfect state, but I have no doubt of the 

 plant belonging to this genus. It comes very near to V. pinnata, 

 Vahl. Synib. iii. 43. ( Ampelopsis, Syst. Veg.v.322,) communicated 

 to that botanist by my worthy preceptor and friend Professor Schu- 

 macher and supposed by Sir .J. E. Smith, Rees's Cyclop, iu loco, 

 to be a mere variety of Vitis laciniosa. It differs in being hairy and 

 in the leaflets being oblong with a sub-cordate base and numerous large 

 serratures. — The leaves are much like those of a Rubus. — N. VV. 



11. V. semicordata, Wall. 



Leaves ternate, their under surface villous, as are also the young 

 branches. Leaflets acuminate, cuspidato-serrate; the lateral ones se- 

 mi-cordate, very gibbous ; the intermediate ones ovate, tapering down- 

 wards. Cymes oblong. 



This I have only found on the mountain of Shivapore in Nipal, 

 blossoming in September. 



A large climbing pereunial shrub; stem covered with biown 



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