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one of the branches of the 2-cleft glabrous leaf-opposed_ tendril 
usually shorter than the leaves ; calyx short, truncate, green ; petals 
and stamens 5 ; stigma sessile; berries globular, the size of a small 
pea, purplish, smooth, usually 2-seeded. 
Has.—Frequent in savannahs and savannah jungles, as also in 
shrubberies and woods round villages, all over the Pegu plains, especially in the 
Sittang valley.—Fl. Apr.-May.—SS.—=AIL. 
13. V. tomentosa, Heyne ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 650.—A large tendril- 
bearing climber, all parts greyish or tawny woolly; leaves simple, 
in. long and broad, acute, rarely blunt, membranous ; flowers small, 
on very short and thick woolly petioles, reddish or purplish, 
compact and cymulose, forming a short usually very dense woolly 
corymb-like panicle on the one branch of the 2-3-cleft leaf-opposed 
slightly webby-woolly tendrils ; ealyx short, obsoletely 5-lobed ; 
petals and stamens 5 ; stigma sessile; berries the shape and size of 
a coffee-berry, reddish or purplish, smooth, usually 4-seeded. 
Has.—In deserted hill toungyas of the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 
3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation —Fl. & Fr. March.—SS.—Metam. 
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calyptrate and very deciduous; filaments long and slender; 
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— .-AB.—Not unfrequent in deserted toungyas, ete., of Martaban and Tenas- 
_ ‘Setim ; also Chittagong—FI. Fr. Febr.-March—SS.—Metam. 
___W. B.—V. vinifera, L. (Brand. For. Fl. 98)—Sa-pyit—is often 
— cultivated with Europeans, and is said to bear good grapes in 
Va, 
_ , 15. V, Helferi, Laws. in H-f. Ind. Fl. i. 662.—A large tendril- 
bearing climber, all younger parts webby-tomentose and partially 
Stabrescent ; leaves usually 5-foliolate with the two lateral leaflets 
Pedately divided into two, on a 3-4 in. long woolly petiole ; leaflets 
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