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Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenas- 

 serim. — Fr. Febr. March. 



This species may eventually turn out to be only an entire-leaved form 

 of G. Javanica, Miq., but the flowers are still unknown. 



AMPELIDJSJE. 



Conspectus of species. 

 Vitis. Stamens free. Ovary 2-celled, with. 2 ovules in each. cell. Tendril-hearing 



climhers. 

 Leea. Stamens and petals united with the disk. Ovary 3 — 6-celled, with a solitary 



ovule in each cell. Erect shrubs or trees, without tendrils. 



Vitis, L. 

 Conspectus of species 

 Subff. I. Vitis (sens, extens.). Inflorescences branched in the usual way, 

 not dilated and confluent. 



§ 1 . Flowers in leaf-opposed or axillary true cymes. Flowers usually 4-me- 

 rous. (Cissus.) 



O Leaves compound, from simple and pedately 3 — 9 or more foliolate 

 to digitate, or if simple-leaved jointed with the petiole (1 — 2- 



foliolate) . 

 + Leaves pedately or pinnately foliolate, very rarely spuriously 

 digitate. 



f Style short, spreadingly 4-lohed, or the 4-lohed or 4-cleft 

 stigma sessile. 



* Style short, spreadingly 4-lohed at the apex. 



Flowers often unisexual. 

 Leaves 3 -foliolate ; berries \\ in. in diameter ; seed ohovoid, grooved on the hack, the 



groove with a linear tubercle ; stem very warty Y. tuierculata. 



Hermaphrodite ; leaves coriaceous, 3-foliolate, the leaflets very shortly petioluled, 



. . V. assimilis. 



Flowers unisexual ; leaves sappy memhranous, 3-foliolate to pedately 5 -foliolate ; cymes 



short ; seeds ohlong, smooth, V. oxypJiylla. 



* * Stigma sessile, 4-lohed or cleft. Flowers often 



unisexual. 



All parts, also the very short cyme, glahrous ; leaves 3-foliolate, sappy herbaceous ; 

 pedicels short, cymulose ; berries white, pea-shaped, V. angustifolia. 



Very much as the preceding, hut cymes very slender and large, puherulous ; seeds half- 

 orbicular, broadly and shallowly furrowed above with a long blunt ridge in the 

 furrow, the sides transversely rugate, V. bracteolata. 



Glabrous or the petioles and cyme often puherulous ; leaves pedate, or the upper ones 

 often 3-foliolate, sappy coriaceous ; berries white, the size of a cherry or smaller ; 

 seeds obovoid-oblong, rugulose, broadly and shallowly furrowed on the back, 



. . V. lanceolaria. 



Glabrous ; leaves pedate, herbaceous-fleshy ; pedicels 2 — 3 lin. long, umbellulate ; berries 

 black, the size of a pea, , . V. semdata. 



