482 FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Vitis. 



smooth bark, besprinkled with copious callous dots. — Young bran- 

 ches covered with long, spreading, ferruginous, very soft, jointed hairs. 

 — Leaves approximate, ternate, coriaceous, smooth above, villous 

 and reticulate undearneath, nearly equalling their villous petiols. — 

 Leaflets about three inches long, cuspidtito-serrate, acuminate, 

 sub-sessile; lateral ones obliquely semi-cordate, their outerside 

 being very broad and the base round, gibbous; the inner one narrow 

 and acute, the middle leaflet is broad-ovate, tapering downwards —> 

 Stipules lanceolate, adpressed, withering. Tendrils long, smfcothj 



twice or thrice dichotomous Cymes terminal on the branchlets, 



or opposite the leaves, oblong, dichotomous, fleshy, smooth, with 

 lanceolate Lracilets. Flowers sub-umbellate, smooth, greenish, five- 

 pjeft. — Calyx membrane-margined, obscurely five-lobed. Petals 

 oblong, spreading, headed at the apex. Stamens spreading— Ovary 

 obscurely five-cornered, two-celled, with two erect ovular Style 

 columnar. Stigma truncate. — N. W. 



11. V. mollissima , Wall. 



Leaves ternate, covered with very dense, soft, whitish hairs; this 

 lateral leaflets acuminate, unequally cfenate, semi-ovate ; the inter* 

 mediate ones elliptic, with a narrow sub-retuse base. Cymes diva- 

 ricate, dichotomous, villous. Flowers tetrandrous. Berries round, 

 smooth, four-seeded* 



A native of the mountains of Pinang, blossoming during the rainy 

 season. Communicated by Mr. Porter. 



A large, extensive climber, with slender, brown, smooth^ callous- 

 dotted branches. Leaves a span or mure long, covered on both sides 

 with long, extremely soft, dense hairs, becon<ing somewhat smoother 

 above as they grow old or are produced on older branches. Leaflets 

 from five to six inches long, un< anally and obtusely, sometimes gross- 

 ly crenate, ending in a fine acumen; strongly vascular underneath; 

 the lateral ones semi-ovate or semi-cordate, sub-sessile; the inter* 

 mediate ones elliptic, narrow and obtuse, sometimes even retuse at 

 the base.— Common footstalk three inches long, villous, covered wttb 



