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along the base of the Eastern Himalaya, Assam, Cachar, Chittagung 

 and Upper Burma. It was collected, so long ago as 1802, by Bucbanan- 

 Hamilton in Assam, aud occurs in the Calcutta set of Wallich's plants 

 as No. 6001 A, under the name V. costata, Wall. There is a sheet of 

 it also from Sylhet under the number 5998 F, and the general name 

 V. adnata, and the particular name being Cissus vitagmea, Herb. Ham. 



15. V. gigantba, Bedd. I have seen no authentic specimen of 

 tins. There is not one at Kew. 



16. V. kepanda, W. and A. A scandent species with pink flowers 

 and narrowly oblong fruit, the oldest name of which appears to be Cissus 

 repanda, Vahl. To this Mr. Lawson has reduced, and I believe rightly, 

 the most of the. specimens issued by Wallich under the following names 

 and numbers— 7. aqiwsa, Wall. Cat. 6000 B ; V. Wightiana, Wall. 6003 C ; 

 and V. riparia, Wall. 6038. To this species Kurz (As. Soc. Beng. for 

 ] 875, pt. 2, p. 176) gave the name V. Linnaei. He did so under the 

 impression that the species is the one to which Linnaeus gave the name 

 Cissus vitiginea, (Sp. PI. 117.) Wallich, on the other hand, identifies 

 Cissus vitiginea, L. with the semi-erect shrub which Lamarck and De 

 Candolle (Prod. I, 629) name Cissus angulata. Planchon, the latest 

 writer on this family and who has consulted the type specimens involved, 

 states (DC. Mon. Phan. V, 473) that there is not the slightest doubt 

 that Wallich, Wight and Arnot, and Lawson are right. In my opinion 

 the Burmese specimens issued by Wallich as V. laeta Cat. No. 6002 

 should also be reduced to V. repanda. 



17. V. adnata, Wall. Cat. 5998. Most of the letters of Wallich's 

 5998 (they run up to I.) belong to the species whicli Roxburgh described 

 (Fl. Ind. I, 405) as Cissus adnata. But, amongst Wallich's other num- 

 bers, some certainly belong to this species. Of these are No. 5999 B 

 issued as V. repens, Wall. ; No. 6000 C issued as V. aquosa ; and 

 No. 5990 G issued as V. glauca, Wall. The species is really a very easily 

 recognised one, and the confusion made by Wallich is surprising. The 

 plant is found over almost the whole of India, and it runs doAvn into 

 Burma and the Malayan Peninsula. In the latter country its pubescence 

 is rufous. A plant undistinguishable from this was collected in Sumatra 

 by Diepenhorst whose specimens (there is one in the Calcutta Her- 

 barium) were named Vitis pyrrJiodasys, by Miquel. 



19. V. Linnaei, Wall. Cat. 5987 appears to be the Cissus viti- 

 ginea of Linnaeus and also G. angulata of Lamarck. It would probably 

 be more correct to name this Vitis vitiginea. Kurz, disbelieving the 

 identity of C. vitiginea L. and C. angulata Lamk., suggested that this 

 should be called V. angulata. 



26. V. barbata, Wall, is a very distinct species. The type of it 

 is Wall. Cat. No. 5997 ; but to it also belong (in the Calcutta set at 



