VITACEiE. 163 



Plate 161. 



VITIS, Tourn. 



Petala disco 4-5-lobo s. glanduloso extus inscrta, apice 

 cucullato-induplicato calyptratim cohserentia et basi soluta, 

 vel sub anthesi patentia. 



ViTis, Tourn. Inst. p. 613. t. 384. Sclikulir, Handb. t. 4'). Gtertn. Fr. 



t. 106. R. Br. ex Wiglit & Arn. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1. p. 124. 



Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 243. 

 ViTis &, Cissus, Linn. DC. 1. c. Endl. Gen. 4566, 4567. 

 Orape-Vinc. 



Calyx very short, truncate, or obsoletely 5-4-toothed, the 

 inside filled with a fleshy torus which expands around the 

 base of the ovary into a 5-4-lobed hypogynous disk. Pe- 

 tals 5 or sometimes 4, inserted under the edge of the disk, 

 equal, concave, valvate in asstivation, their summits frequent- 

 ly induplicate and lightly cohering, when the whole corolla 

 separates from the base before expansion and falls away to- 

 gether, sometimes expanding in the ordinary way, early de- 

 ciduous. Stamens as many as the petals and opposite them, 

 inserted just within them : filaments subulate or filiform, 

 distinct, deciduous : anthers cordate-ovate, fixed near the 

 middle, introrse, two-celled ; the cells opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary two-celled, or accidentally three-celled, sessile, its base 

 surrounded by and sometimes coherent with the fleshy disk, 

 the lobes or glands of which are alternate with the stamens : 

 STYLE short or none : stigma terminal, depressed, somewhat 

 peltate, or slightly two-lobed. Ovules 2 in each cell, erect 

 from its base, collateral, anatropous, the raphe next the axis. 



Fruit a two-celled (or by abortion one-celled) globular 

 berry ; the cells two-seeded or by abortion one-seeded. Seeds 

 erect, obovate or somewhat obcordate ; the membranaceous 

 testa covering a thick and bony inner integument, which is 

 strongly induplicate on each side of the raphe and more or 



