648 XLiii. AMPELiDE^. (M. A. Lawson.) [ 



Western Himalaya, GarwLal, Strach. & Wint. Westekn PENiKsnLA, from the 

 Conoan eouthwarda. Ava ? iTara.— Disteib. Abyssinia. 



Young branches and leaves often pellucid. Leaves pale green; petiole 2-5 in. 

 Tendril short, fleshy, opposite the leaves or 0. Petals distinct. Style long, slender, 

 i^jttii Bubglobose, 1- or according to W. & A. 1-2-seeded; pedicels very thick and 

 fleshy. Seed f in., pyriform, smooth, pale. — Wight and Amott refer Cissus vitigmea, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 406, to this species, but Eoxbnrgh's figure is without doubt V. lanata. 



13. V. g'lauca, W. & A. Frodr. 126 ; whole plant except the younger 

 parts quite glabrous, stems glaucous, leaves 5-10 by 2-45 in. with long 

 petioles roundly cordate rarely obscurely lobed cuspidate bristly-serrate 

 membranous, tendrils forked, peduncles 2-3 in. very slender 3-5-rayed, 

 rays umbellately many-flowered, bracts and bracteoles very small deci- 

 duous, petals ^-g in., fruit the size of a pea. V. Kleinii, Wall. Cat. 6008 A, B. 

 Cissus cordata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 407 ; DC. Prodr. i. 628. C. glauca, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 406 ; Grak. Cat. Bomb. PI. 32. C. purpureus, Rosd). ex Stend. 

 ed. ii. vol. i. ?nz.—Rheede Hwt. Mai. vii. 21, t. 11. 



Westees Pehiksola ; from the Concan southwards. 



Stems succulent, dark brown, cylindrio, faintly striate, heaves slightly puberulous 

 when yoiing, drying black. Oymes slender. Flowers very small ; pedicels ^ in., very 

 slender. PetaU distinct. Style long, slender. Fruit subglobose, 1-2-seeded. Seed ? 



Vak. Stems woody swollen at the nodes. Leaves distantly and very obtusely 

 crenate not bristly-serrate. — Cdurtallam. 



14. V. assaiuicai Laws. ; whole plant except the.youngest parts quite 

 glabrous, branches subangular woody, leaves roundly cordate or orbicular 

 cuspidate or suddenly and shortly acuminate bristly-serrate with recurved 

 margins very prominently nerved beneath harsh and subcoriaceous, tendrils 

 simple, cymes slender, petals -5^ in., fruit the size of a pea. ' 



Assam, Oriffith. ' 



Stems very firm and rigid, turning black when dry ; a hard harsh plant when com- 

 pared with V. glauca. Flowers on slender pedicels. Petals distinct. Style ^ in., 

 stigma snbcapitate. Fruit { in., turbinate, dry, blapk, subangled, 1-seeded. Seed \ in. 

 pyriform. — Very closely allied to V. adnata. 



/8. Leaves piibeseent or tomenlose beneath. 



15. V. g'igantea, Bedd. in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxv. 212 ; an enormous 

 climber, branches terete round glabrous, leaves 6-8. in. cordate with a 

 deep sinus and long point mucronate glabrous above subtomentose 

 beneath, tendrils bifid. 



Westeen Peninsula ; Anamallay forests, alt. 2000 ft,, Seddome. 



Stems 4r-5 in. diam., bark corky. Leaves crenate, creuatures sharply toothed, 5- 

 nerved; petiole 2-4 in. Cymes 3-5-rayed, rays bearing minute green umbellate 

 flowers. — 1 have never seen this species. 



16. V. repanda, W. & A. Prodr. 125 ; stems and leaves with appressed 

 woolly tomentum, leaves 4-8 by 3-6 in. broadly cordate coarsely crenate 

 or dentate or inciso-serrate or sublobed often repand densely covered when 

 young with rust-coloured hairs at length glabrous above, tendrils forked, 

 petals cohering at the apex, fruit \ in. pyriform. V. Iffita, Wall. Cat. 6003. 

 V. rosea, Royle lU. 149, t. 26, f. 1. Cissus acuminata, Thwaites Enum. 63. 

 C. aquosa, Wall. Cat. 6000. C. repanda, Vahl ; DC. Prodr. i. 627; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 32 ; Dalz. & Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 39. C. repens, Thwaites 



