276 AMPELIDES. [ Vitis. 
tu stem somewhat compressed, corky, uneven, deeply and 
longitudinally cracked ; leaves simple, on very long slender petioles, 
broadly cordate and usually somewhat angular or obsoletely lobed, 
about 5-6 in. long and nearly as broad, shortly and bluntish acu- 
minate, remotely and bristly repand-serrulate, 5-nerved at the base, 
ae Sane sparingly woolly (especially beneath), when full grown 
chartaceous and quite glabrous; stipules oblong, small; flowers 
small, reddish, drooping on long, slender , woolly glabrescent pedicels 
arising umbellately from rusty villous knobs and forming a leaf- 
opposed, sparingly woolly, glabrescent, divaricate, en 
e in.) cyme ; calyx short, usually villous ; petals and stamens 
4; style simple, rather thick; berries all drooping, obovate, about 
the size of a small pea, purplish-black, smooth, 1-2-seeded. 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed forests as also in shrubberies and grass — 
all over Burma and —— provinces down to the Andamans.—Fl. A 
May ; Fr. B.S.—s: 1—S8.= 
** Flowers in cymose we pausee. racemes, spikes, or more —— 
one or both tendril-branches transformed into a panicle. 
e's Ft saregea Wall. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 651.—A large woody 
climber, all parts, except the leaves, covered with copious, long, capi- 
tate, brown or blackish, stiff hairs; petioles long, covered with @ 
6-7 broad, oko & 5-nerved at the base, a inte one 
not or obsoletely 3-lobed, while young covered with a loose very 
ceous tomentum, soon turning glabrous above and slightly 
woolly along the prominent nerves beneath, membranous ; ten 
-opposed, woolly, and beset with long stiff hairs, 2 2.3-cleft, the 
one branch transformed in a tomentose more or less elongate 
panicle, consisting of small eaecntils e flowers on very short, thick, 
tomentose pedicels; calyx short, Bhaclaaty 4-lobed ; petals an and 
stamens 4 or 5 each, the former about a line long, glabrous; 
cpm sessile. 
AB.—Frequent in ed low and lower mixed forests all over Ava and 
son down to Tenasse Fl. Apr.-May—1. 
2. V. latifolia, Roxb ; ;H. Ind. Fi j.652; Brand. For. F1.99.— 
Chin-dowk-nway-zouk. —A large te ndril- bearing climber, the younger 
parts pubescent, the branches sh: branchlets all. glabrous ;_ leaves 
simple, on a 2-4 in. long glabrous petiole, broadly cordate oF 
ith 
rotundate, not or more usually 3-5-lobe e lobes acute oF 
ay blunt, about 5-6 in. long and broad, acute or rarely blunt, 
y thed, membranous, or os 
