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cate, and its pubescence is felted and of a blight rufous colour, while 

 that of V. lanata is lax and of a pale colour. To F. lanata, Roxb., 

 LawRon (following Wight and Arnott) reduces V. rugosa, Wall., a plant 

 which (as I have mentioned in my remarks under G. harbata, Wall.) 

 is a perfectly distinct good species. In fact V. lanata, as understood by 

 W. and A. and Lawson, is not Roxburgh's plant at all ; it is, however, the 

 V. lanata of Wallich, and of Decaisne. 



30. Vitis Montana, Laws, is only a form of V. latifolia, Roxb. The 

 author of the species relies on the more corymiform shape of the in- 

 florescence to distinguish it from V. latifolia, and also on the presence of 

 long white hairs on the younger parts of the stem. But these are 

 characters of scarcely sufficient importance, even did they go together, 

 which they do not. Planchon also was of opinion (DC. Mon, Phau. V. 

 371), that V. montana, Laws., cannot be kept up. 



32. Vitis parvifolia, Roxb., cannot be kept distinct from V. lanata^ 

 Roxb. (see notes on the latter). 



33. Vitis indica, Linn. As Trimen has pointed out in his Flora of 

 Ceylon (Vol. I., 288), the plant described under the name V. erioclada 

 by Wight and Arnott (Prod. 130), is exactly this plant, viz., the ScJiem- 

 hra Valli of Rheede (Hort. Malab. VII, t. 6). Wight and Arnott, 

 however, cite as their V. erioclada, the species with deeply-lobed leaves 

 fio-ured by Rheede on his succeeding plate 7 — an obvious slip. Trimen's 

 opinion on to the identity of V. erioclada, W. and A. with F. indica, Linn, 

 rests on the solid foundation of actual inspection of Hermann's speci- 

 men. Planchon (1. c. 379) gives the name Ampelocissus Arnottiana to 

 the plant which he identifies with that named F. indica, L. by Lawson ; 

 but what Planchon's plant may really be I have not yet discovered. 



Vitis Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 6003 has not been accounted for in the 

 Flora of " British India. There are three gatherings of it in Wallich's 

 Catalogue, distinguished by the letters A. B. C. That marked A. may, 

 it appears to me, be treated either as a very tomentose form of F. re- 

 panda with more globular fruit than usual, or as a distinct species. 



Vitis costata, Wall. Cat. 6011 A and B, from Burma, is doubtfully 

 referred by Lawson, (1. c. 647) to either F. discolor Dalz or F. repens, 

 W. and A. In my opinion it is a good distinct species near the former. 



Vitis Himalayana, Brandis For. Flora 100, This is the name 

 given by Sir D. Brandis to Ampelopsis Himalayana, Royle (lUust. 

 Him. Plants 149) Cissus himalayana, Walp. Rep. I, 441 and Vitis 

 neilgherrensis, Wight Ic. t. 965. Lawson treats as his variety semicor- 

 data of this species the plant issued by Wallich as No. 6020 of his 

 catalogue under the name Vitis sfemicordata. But Wallich's name, 

 being older than either Royle's or Wight's, the position of the variety and 



