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reddish Lairs. Stipules membranous, lanceolate, ciliate, deciduous, 

 -—Tendrils very long, smooth, once or twice dicliotomous. Cymes 

 axillary, broad, flit, divaricate, dichotomous. Flowers large, tetran- 

 drous. — Berries nearly as large as a cherry. 



Obs- The leall.t-, do not fall of on being dried, and those of the 

 young shoots attain in that state a yellowish green colour. — N. VV. 



13. V. bracteolata, Wall 



Smoothish, slender. Leaves terna.te, cuspidato-serrulate ; the la- 

 teral leaflets semi-ovate. Cymes long-peduncled, much divided, with 

 oblong, deciduous bractes. Flowers tetrandrous. 



A native of the Juyuniiya mountains, where it \vas found in flower 

 ill September by Mr. De Silva, 



Beng. TV.ta gwaleeya Lata (fe>1 stfsffzri af^j). 



Smooth, slender, ramous; the upper parts slightly pubescent,.— 

 Leaves temate ; leaflets cuspidgto-serrulate, acuminate, three inches 

 long; a Int. e pubescent underneath; the lateral ones semi-ovate; the 

 intermediate ones lanceolate. — Common footstalk slender, two inches 

 long; partial nearly equal, scarcely one-third of an inch long, villous. 

 Stipules ovate, caducous, smooth.— Tendrils long, simple. Cymes 

 axillary, on long, filiform pubescent peduncles, di- or tcichotomous, 

 with an oblong, concave, membranous, deciduous, smooth bvacte mi- 

 lder each division. Tlozsers very small, tetrandrous.— N. VV. 



3 4. V. cinnamomea, Walk 



Clothed with dense, soft, ferruginous tomenlum. Leaves from 

 simple, ovate-cordate, sub-trilobate, to teruate and quinate, with se- 

 mi-cordate lateral leaflets.. Corymbs long, pendulous, cirrhiferous, 

 consistingof most approximate, divaricate spikes. Flowers tetrandrous. 



I found this species in the islands in the straits of Malacca, Pi- 

 nang, Singapore, Pulo ijmigding, &c. blossoming and in fruit dur- 

 ing the rainy season. 



A very powerful shrub, climbing over large trees, the branches 



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