7itis.] Lxiii. AMPELinEiB. (M. A. Lawson.) 649 



Enienh 62. C. riparia, WaU. Cat. 6038. C. vitiginea, Linn. Sp. PI 117 • 

 BU. Prodr. 1. 627 (not of Roodnirgh). 



NoETH Westeen Himalaya; Garwhal, Falconer, &o. Assam, Silhet, and 

 Easteen Besoal ; Westeen Peninsula, from the Concan southwards. Ceylon not 

 uncommon. ' 



Branches coarse trailing or creeping. Stems and older branches with wrinkled barb. 

 Cymes slender, peduncle 2-5 in. bearing 3-5 rajs or branching suboorymbosely with 

 the flowers ultimately umbellate. Bracts and bracteoles densely woolly. FruU tipped 

 with the persistent style. Seed pyriform, smoothish.— Very variable ; the more succu- 

 lent and glabrous forms closely resembling some specimens of V. pallida, while those 

 . with cordate-ovate leaves and less persistent bracteoles are with difficulty distinguished 

 from v. adnata, to which indeed it is very closely allied. Under V. paniculata. Wall. 

 Cat. 6022, are two species, the one with simple leaves probably belongs to V. repanda, 

 the other with 5-foliolate leaves and labelled 0. pentaphylla f Hb. Madras, belongs to 

 V. tmuifolia. 



17. V. adnata, Wall. Cat. 5998 ; stems leaves and inflorescence clothed 

 with a rust-coloured pubescence, leaves 4-8 by 2-4 in. cordate-ovate acute 

 or shortly acuminate bristly-serrate, tendrils forked, cymes smaller more 

 compact and less wooUy than^in V, repanda, bracteoles very small caducous, 

 petals distinct, fruit about the size of a pea. Brand. For. Fl. 100. V. repens, 

 WaE. Cat. 5999 h. Cissus adnata, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 405 j DC. Prodr. i. 627 ; 

 Wi^kt Ic. t. 144 ; Tkwaites Enum. 62 ; Cat. Bomb. PI. 32 ; Dah. & Oibs. 

 Bomi.Fl.39. G. cordata, W^a^^. Cai. 6001. C. Eleiuii, Wall. Cat. 6008 in 

 part. C. latifolia, VaM Symh. iii. 18. 



Hotter parts of India, from the Westeen Himalayas in Garwhal to Assam, 

 Silhet, Bknqal, Tenasseeim, and Penans. Western Peninsula and Ceylon. — 

 DisTEiB. Java, Borneo, Philippine Islds. 



A slender fai^climbing plant, with round woo0y branches. Leaves becoming more 

 or less glabrous above, always pubescent beneath, sometimes even densely felted with 

 a short soft tomentum, membranous. Tendrils woody. Fruit black, smooth. Seed 

 ■rn in., pyriform, smooth, 



18. V. spectabllls, ICun in Trirmn Jcmm. Bot. 1874, 196 ; a lofty 

 acandent ferruginously hirsute shrub, leaves almost sessile broadly cordate 

 obtuse obsoletely 3-5-lobed siriiiate-cordate. at the base denticulate thick 

 membranous scabrous above. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; damp forests near Khersiong, alt. 5-6000 ft., Kwrz. 



Flowers very small, on slender pedicels iV-i in- Cymes pedunculate, trichotomous 

 J-I4 in. Calyx truncate, scarcely ^ in. Style ^^ in., truncate. Berry (immature) 

 obovate. — ^According to Kurz this has the habit and affinity of V. Linncei, but widely 

 differs by the indumentum and almost sessile leaves. — I have not seen this species. 



19. v. Xilnnaei, Wall. Cat 5987 ; stems leaves and inflorescence clothed 

 with a short grey pubfescence, leaves 2-4 in. long and broad palmately 

 3-6-angled or lobed slightly cordate or retusely-truncate at the base 

 coarsely and irregularly serrate, tendrils siinple, petals distinct, fruit ^ in. 

 W,.<b A. Prodr. 126. Cissus angulata, Lamk. Diet. Supp. i. 104; DC. 

 Prodr. i. 629 ; ThwaUes Fnum. 62. 



Western Peninsula ; from the Concan southwards, and Ceylon. 



Stems and leaves subfleshy. Branches oylindric or ver^ obtusely angled. Oymea 

 slender, about as long as.the leaves. Flowers small. IVuit oblong, bluish, pniinose ; 

 pedicels recurved. Seed as. in I^. repanda, — A. very distinct species, of which the 

 synonymy has been much confused. I have followed Wallioh in calling it F. Imnai. 



