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glabrescent ; leaves sharply acuminate, never lobed ; seeds obovate, shallowly 



lacunose, V. adnata. 



All younger parts rusty tomentose or pubescent, glabrescent ; leaves large, often some- 

 what 3-lobed, bluntish acuminate, deciduous ; seeds obovate, smooth, . . V. Linncei. 

 § 2. Inflorescence a modification of the tendrils, cymose-panicled, racemose or 

 spiked, or more usually the one or both tendril-branches transformed 

 into a panicle. Flowers 4- or more usually 5-merous. (Eu-Vitis.) 



* Flowers pedicelled, in loose or contracted panicles. 



t Seeds 2 — 4 lin. long, shallowly grooved and more or less dis- 

 tinctly radiately furrowed on the back, 

 x Glabrous or nearly so. 

 Cymose panicles ample, glabrous, with or without tendrils ; pedicels thick, nearly a line 



long ; leaves 3 — o -lobed, the lobes usually acute, V. latifolia. 



x x All parts more or less woolly-tomentose. 

 Branchlets, peduncles and usually the petioles covered with a woolly tomentum inter- 

 mixed with black spreading stiff hairs ; leaves almost glabrous, V. barbata. 



Branchlets, etc. woolly without black hairs ; leaves lobed to palmately lobed ; panicles 

 usually tendril-bearing, short and rather compact ; pedicels very short and thick, 



. . V. tomentosa. 

 f f Seeds about a line long, longitudinally farrowed on the back, 

 almost smooth, glossy-black. 

 Branchlets, etc., woolly, without black hairs ; leaves tawny woolly beneath, slightly 

 lobed ; panicles usually tendril-bearing, woolly, large and lax ; pedicels very slen- 

 der, 1 J lin. long, V. lanata. 



* * Flowers sessile, in spikes, the spikes forming elongate panicles. 

 Young parts thinly and fugaceously woolly ; leaves pedately 5 — 7-foliolate, glabrous ex- 

 cept on the nerves beneath ; spikes in very slender panicles, Y. Selferi. 



Quite glabrous ; leaves digitately foliolate, glaucous green ; spikes puberulous, forming 

 \\ — 2 ft. long stout panicles, V. polystachya. 



Subg. II. Pterisanthes, Bl. Kachis of inflorescence leafy expanded and 

 fleshy-membranous, the flowers sessile, unisexual. 



Glabrous ; leaves simple ; a very slender twiner, V. polita. 



1. V. tttberculata, Laws, in Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 656. 

 Hab. Pegu {teste Lawson). 



I have not seen this species, and I suspect that it is only a large-fruited, 

 3-foliolate form of V. lanceolaria. 



2. V. assimilis, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 302. — (V. lan- 

 ceolaria var. 2, assimilis, Laws, in Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 660). 



Hab. Not rare in the drier hill-forests of the Martahan hills, east of 

 Tounghoo, at 3—4000 ft. elevation.— Fl. March. 



3. V. oxyphylla, Wall. Cat. 6035. 



Hab. Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Yomah and the Martaban hills, east of Tounghoo. — Fl. March. 



4. V. lanceolaria, Wall. ap. WA. Prod. I. 128 : Wight Icon. t. 

 177; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 660, excl. syn. C. feminea ; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 



