AMPELIDER. 273 
itis. ] 
2. V. assimilis, Kz—A glabrous woody climber with terete 
tubercled branches ; leaves constantly 3-foliolate, on a 1-14 in. long 
petiole ; leaflets on very short thick petiolules up to a lin. long, 
oblong-lanceolate (the lateral ones oblique and rounded at the one 
side of the unequal base), 3-4 in. long, acute, crenate-toothed, 
coriaceous, glabrous; flowers small, greenish-white, hermaphrodite, 
on a line long, thick, densely tawny puberulous pedicels, forming 
short-peduncled usually nodding much-branched puberulous cymes 
in the axils of the leaves; petals 4; ovary narrowed in a short 
thick style terminated by 4 short spreading lobes. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hil! forests of the Martaban hills east of 
Tounghoo, at 3,500 to 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. March.—s —=Metam. 
xx Style and stigma simple. 
V. pedata, Wall.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 661.—A woody climber 
rous or 
liform ; berries depressed-globose, about the size 
obseurely 4-lobed, smooth, white, 4-seeded. 
Haz.—Frequent in the mixed forests, in hedges and amongst shrubberies, all 
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nm 
over Burma down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. Begin. of R.S.—lxs.— 
SS.= oo, 
disk large, 4-lobed ; stamens 4; the filaments slender ; style simple, 
fi of a large pea, 
4. V. Himalayana, Brand. For. Fl. 100; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 
655.—A glabrous woody climber with terete lenticellate branchlets; 
— Y 3 flowers small, greenis! 
= see short thick pedicels, forming glabrous peduncled dicho- 
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ee ate with a very short simple style thickened at the apex; berries 
the size of a small pea, smooth, 1-2-seeded. 2 
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