280 XXXIX. AMPELIDE^. [Vitis. 



rather long petioles, broadly cordate, 2^ to nearly 4in. long and nearly as broad, 

 entire except small, almost bristle-like distant teeth, 5-nerved, the smaller veins 

 reticulate, very few or none, transverse, and faintly conspicuous. Flowers deep 

 crimson, in corymbose trichotomous cymes, the buds about 1 line diameter. Calyx 

 minute, truncate. Petals 4, thick cymbiform, with inflexed tips, often cohering 

 at the top and falling off together. Stamens 4, filaments very short. Anthers 

 large, golden. Hypogynous disk annular, prominent. Style subulate. Berries 

 obovoid-globular. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 54 ; Cissits cordata, Koxb. Fl. Ind. i. 407 ; 

 Vitis cardiophylla, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 78. 



Hab.: Barnard Islands, Jtf'GiJZwrat/; Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller; Eookhampton, Thozet; 

 Bundaberg, Rev. B. Scorteehini. Common in the Archipelago and Eastern India, extending 

 northward to Sikkim and Hongkong and New Guinea. 



4. v. adnata (adnate). Wall.; Wight and Am. Prod. 126 (with the synonyms 

 adduced) ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 448. Young shoots and under side of the leaves 

 more or less covered with a short tomentum, which sometimes disappears with 

 age. Leaves petiolate, broadly cordate, almost orbicular, acuminate, 3 to 6in. or 

 more diameter, bordered with small bristle-like teeth, 5-nerved and penniveined, 

 the primary veins connected by transverse veinlets. Flowers scarcely | line 

 diameter, numerous in corymbose cymes. Petals 4, cohering by the tips and 

 falling off together. Style shortly subulate, at least in the fertile flowers. Fruit 

 globular, small. — Cissus adnata, Eoxb.; Wight, Ic. t. 144. 



Hab.: Ranges, Barron River, E. Cowley and L. J. Nugent. 



5. V. nitens (shining), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 73 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 448. 

 Quite glabrous. Leaflets 3, ovate or oval-oblong, acuminate, mostly 3 to 4in. 

 long, remotely toothed, narrowed at the base, the lateral ones scarcely oblique, 

 on short petiolules, rather firm, smooth and shining above. Umbel-like cymes 

 almost glabrous, dense and nearly globular, 2 or 3 together or solitary on a very 

 short common peduncle, the pedicels very short. Flower-buds ovoid, rather more 

 than 1 line long. Petals 4 or rarely 5, oblong, falling off separately. Disk 

 inconspicuous. Style very short and thick, with a broad, flat, almost fringed, 

 slightly 2-lobed stigma. Berry ovoid, blackish. 



Hab.: Herbert, Dawson and Burnett Rivers, F. v. Mueller; Brisbane River, Fraser, F. v. 

 Mueller. 



Wood soft and spongy, of a brown colour and ooar se grain. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 85a. 



6. V. brachypoda (petiole short),' F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 125. Branches 

 almost terete. Petioles somewhat thick, corrugate, from a few lines to lin. long. 

 Leaflets 3, thin, coriaceous, ovate-acuminate, 2 to 4in. long, shining, rather pale, 

 on the under side. Lateral nerves distant, often foveolate in the axUs. Eeticu- 

 lation prominent on both sides, contracted into very short petiolules. Peduncle 

 about Ifin. long. Panicle repeatedly trichotomous, puberulent. Flowers 

 pedicellate, 3-merous; buds obtuse. Calyx patelliform, not toothed, about 

 f line broad. Petals yellow, thinly puberulent outside, sometimes 5. Anthers 

 cordate. Style and ovary glabrous. Stigma not at all dilated. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (P. v. M., I.e.) 



7. V. saponaria (stems used as substitute for soap in Fiji), Seem. Syst. List. 

 Fit. PI. 4 ; Benth. 1<1. Austr. i. 448. Young leaves and shoots and inflorescence 

 minutely hoary-tomentose. Leaflets 3, very broadly ovate, acuminate, entire or 

 crenate, attaining 4 to 6in., thin and glabrous when full-grown, penniveined and 

 more or less distinctly 5-nerved at the base, especially the lateral ones, with 

 transverse veinlets, the central one rounded at the base, the lateral ones obliquely 



