IS 75.] of the Burmese Mora. 171 



Very much as the preceding, but young shoots and petioles rusty hirsute ; leaves spur- 

 iously digitate, V. obtecta. 



f f Style simple, entire. 



* Leaves all 3-foliolate. 



Glabrous ; cymes leaf-opposed, glabrous ; leaves glaucous beneath, . . . . V. semicordata. 



All parts shortly puberulous rarely glabrous ; cymes axillary or on axillary shoots, 



puberulous, V. trifolia. 



* * Leaves pedate. 



x Cymes leaf-opposed and spuriously axillary, i. e. 

 the cyme terminating an axillary leafy or leaf- 

 less shoot. 



All parts densely puberulous or pubescent, V. Teysmanni. 



All parts glabrous ; leaves sparingly pubescent along the nerves beneath, . . V. Japonica. 



x x Cymes truly axillary, long-peduncled. 

 Leaflets cuneate-obovate, rather blunt or acute, slightly pubescent along the nerves 

 beneath ; seeds triangular with sharp margins, muricate on the back, . . V. tenuifolia. 

 All parts pubescent to almost glabrous ; leaflets finely acuminate ; seeds hemispherical, 



smooth, V. pedata. 



+ + Leaves truly digitate. 

 All parts puberulous ; cymes axillary and terminal on axillary shoots ; leaflets 1 \ — 2 



in. long ; style simple, V. auriculata. 



Leaves glabrous ; leaflets 4 — 6 in. long, fleshy herbaceous ; cymes puberulous ; berries 



globose, style simple, bark red, V. erythroclada. 



Leaves glabrous : leaflets 4 — 6 in. long, coriaceous ; cymes almost sessile, very slenderly 

 branched, puberulous ; flowers minute, dioecious ; stigma peltately 4-lobed, almost 



sessile ; seeds curved-oblong, V. campylocarpa. 



O Leaves simple or very rarely (in V. Anamallayana*) the upper- 

 most ones 3-foliolate. Cymes leaf-opposite (except in V. Wallichii). 

 x Branches and branchlets cornered, sometimes almost winged 

 and fleshy. 

 Branchlets very fleshy, 4-cornered, jointed ; leaves small, fleshy, bluntish crenate ; 



cymes simple, V. quadrangularis. 



Branchlets bluntish 5-angular, thick and glossy ; leaves remotely bristly toothed, long- 



petioled, V. pentagona. 



Branchlets sharply 6-cornered ; leaves bristly serrate, herbaceous ; cymes compound, 

 peduncled or sessile ; seeds obliquely obovate, transversely wrinkled on the faces, 



. . V. discolor. 

 As preceding ; leaves shorter petioled, while young appressed hairy on the nerves be- 

 neath ; seeds smooth, obovate, V. costata. 



x x Branches and branchlets terete or nearly so. 

 t Cymes axillary ; branchlets angular ? 

 Leaves slightly 3-lobed, glabrous, sappy membranous, large ; seeds globose, smooth, 



. . V. Wallichii. 

 f f Cymes leaf-opposed. 



Branchlets terete, whitish pruinous ; all parts glabrous ; seeds smooth, V. repens. 



All parts, especially while young, rusty or tawny tomentose or pubescent, more or less 



* This species is so near to V. repens that I should not wonder if it were to turn 

 out to be only an abnormal state of it. 



