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There is one form of ibis in which the leaves are very nearly 

 .sessile: and in many specimens the upper leaves have short petioles 

 itjid rounded bases, while the lower have long petioles and cordate 

 bases. As a rule the leaves of this plant are beautifully variegated 

 on the tipper surface, but individuals are not uncommon in which the 

 leaves are green. 



23. Vitis eepens, W. and Arn. Prod. Fl. Pens. Ind. 124. 8tem» 

 sub-terete when fresh, 4-angled when dry, glahrous, the young shoots 

 glaucous. Leaves pale green, more or less broadly ovate, shortly acu- 

 minate, the margins wavy and with a few distant setose teeth, the base 

 deeply and widely cordate - t main' nerves about 4 pairs, the lower 

 branching outwards ; length 25 to 3'5 in., breadth L'75 to 3'25 in., 

 petiole '75 to 1'5 in.. Cymes few-flowered in shortly pedunculate 

 compound umbels or thyrses, pubesceut toward the upper part. Flowers 

 pointed in bud, '1 in. long, 4-merous. Fruit globose or obovoid, '15- in. 

 in diam. when dry, usually 1-seeded with little pulp, its pedicels re- 

 curved when ripe. Laws, in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. 1,646; Kurz For. 

 Flora Burma I, 275. V. glauca, Wall, (not of Roxb.) Cat. £990 (for 

 the most part). Cissus repens, Lamk. Encyc. I, 31 ; DC. Prod. I T 628 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 6<J5 ; Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 50L 

 f C. cordata, Roxb. Fl. End. I, 407. 



Perak •. Wray, Nos. T215, 1858, 2142. Andamans : King's Col- 

 lector. — DfSTKIB. British India, Java. 



As was pointed out by Wallich, this differs from V. glaberri ma T 

 Wall, by its more deeply cordate leaves and smaller flowers.' Closely, 

 allied to this must be the species named Cissus pentagona by Roxburgh 

 (Fl. Ind. 1. 408) ; but Roxburgh's description is too brief to identity a 

 species by in such a difficult genus as Vitis ; and he has unfortunately 

 left no figure of V. pentagona at Calcutta. 



24. Vitis cekasiformis, Teysm. and Binn. in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. 

 Ind. XXIX, 251, var. Wallichii, King. Branches with pale shining 

 bark, obtusely 4-angled, not winged. Leaves oblong to ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded sub-truncate or slightly su»b-cordate at the base, the apex 

 shortly and bluntly acuminate; the edges remotely creuate-serrate, the 

 teeth setose ; main nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, spreading : length 2 to 4 

 in., breadth l - 2 to 2 - 4 in. , petiole "5 to '75 in. Cymes few-flowered, lax, 

 under '5 in. in diam., in pedicelled umbels from a common peduncle "5 to 

 1 in. long, sometimes in small thyrses. Flowers large for the genus-, 4-mer- 

 ous ; their buds '2 in. long, pointed. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate ; petals 

 coriaceous. Fruit when ripe as large as a cherry and similarly coloured. 

 Vitis glaberrima, Wall. 5991 (in part) ; Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 646, (in part). Cissus cerasiformis, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 62J. 



