1896.] Gr. King — Notes on the Indian Species o/Vitis. 113 



species adopted by Lawson must be reversed. As amended, the matter 

 would, therefore, stand thus ; 



Vitis semicordata, Wall. Cat. 6020 ; in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey 

 and Wall. I. 481 ; V. Himalayana, Brandis var. semicordata, Lawson. 

 Parthenocissus semicordata Planch. DC. Mon. Phan. V. 451. Flowers 4-or 

 5-merous in subcorymbose dichotomous cymes ; style short, stout. Fruit 

 4-seeded. Young branches petioles and the nerves of the under sur- 

 faces of the leaves hispid-pubescent, leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets obliquely 

 elliptic, the lateral pair with the base rounded on the outer side and 

 narrowed on the inner, the odd leaflet with a cuneate base, all shortly 

 cuspidate and with crenate-serrate edges ; fruit pisiform, black ; seeds 

 obovoid-globular, nearly smooth, black. 



Var. Roylei, King ; Vitis Himalayana, Brandis For. Flora 100 ; Laws, 

 in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 655 ; Ampelopsis Himalayana, Royle and 

 Neilgherrensis, Wight Ic. t. 965 ; Gissus himalayana, Wall. Rep. I. 441 ; 

 Parthenocissus cuspidifera, Planch. DC. Mon. Phan. V, 451 and C. Neilgh- 

 errensis, Planch. 1. c. 450. 



All parts quite glabrous. 



Vitis semicordata is by no means confined to the Himalaya. On the 

 contrary, both the typical form and its variety are found in Sikkim, 

 Khasia, the Neilgherries and Upper Burma. Another form, (viz., var. 

 Scortechinii, King) occurs in the Malayan Peninsula and in Java. 

 The variety has thicker leaves and larger flowers. 



49. Vitis campylocarpa, Kurz. To this must be referred the 

 plant issued by Wallich under the name Panax micranthum (Cat. 

 No. 4938). 



Vitis pycnantha, Coll. and Hemsl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Vol. XXVIII, 

 31. This species is not included in the Flora of British India, having 

 being discovered long subsequently to the publication of the Ampelidem 

 in that work. Its authors do not describe the fruit, which was un- 

 known when they published the species. The Collectors of the Calcutta 

 Bot. Garden having recently sent fruit from the Shan hills, I am enabled 

 to give the following description of it. Fruit globular, slightly rugu- 

 lose when dry, "35 in. in diam., with 2 or 3 seeds and scanty pulp ; 

 seeds "35 in. long, pale, oblong, confessed, obscurely rugulose and with 

 a shallow vertical groove on the anterior face. 



65. Vitis assimilis Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal for 1872, pt. ii., 

 p. 302, has been reduced to a variety of Vitis lanceolaria by Lawson in 

 F. B. India I. 660. It is in my opinion a very distinct form, wel 1 

 worthy of specific rank. 



66. Vitis dubia, Laws. This is a good species, and is exactly 

 V. oxyphylla, Wall. Cat. 6035, which name should supplant Lawson's. 



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