650 XLiii. AMPELiDE^. (M. A. Lawson.) [Titis. 



tt Mowers in Img whip-like dichotomom spiJces. Fruit Z-seeded. 

 ' 20. V. macrostacbys, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 94. Cissus 

 spicifera, G-riff. Notul. iv. 693. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay. — ^Distbib. Sumatra. 



Whole plant quite glabrous. ^Leaves 3-8 in., oblong or ovate, cuspidate, serrate, cona- 

 ceous, with prominent nerves. I^ikes 2 ft. Ipng. Flowers sessile or very shortly pedi- 

 celled, sblitaiy or fascicled in twos or threes on the long slender pendulous raoMs. 

 Petals separating; style short. Fruit 1 in., elliptic, fleshy. Seed | by J in., oblong, 

 pointed at the apex, the back rounded and narrowly grooved, the face flat, rugose. 



** Petals and Stamens 5. 



t Flowers umbellately-cymose. Style 0. Fruii ^seeded. 



21. v. sikkimensls, Laws.; whole plant glabrous, stems weak 

 trailing, leaves IJ ft. cordate, cymes small subfleshy glabrous or with a 

 small amount of deciduous tomentum divaricately branched on long 

 peduncles. 



SiKKiM Himalaya and Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4000 ft., J.D. H. & T.T. 



Young parts often glaucous. Leaves membranous, denticulate, reddish. Peduncles 

 4 in. or more bearing a forked tendril a little below the cyme. Petals separating. 

 Fruit f 



22. V. tomentosa, Reyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 157 ; whole plant covered 

 with a thick woolly persistent tomentum, leaves palmate 3-5-angled or 

 lobed, flowers sessUe in shortly peduncled compact densely woolly cymes. 

 V. lanata, Wall. Cat. 5995 a, 2 f, ? g ; W. & A. Prodr. 130 ; Wight lU. i. 

 t. 57 ; BC. Prodr. 634. V. cinnamomea, Wall. Gat. 5969 c. V. trifida, 

 Both Nov. Sp. 157 ; DC. Prodr. i. 634. V. ternata, Heyne in Roth Nov. 

 Sp. 157. V. triloba, Eeyne I.e. 157 ; Wall. Gat. 6004 1 C. ; JJG. Prodr. i. 634. 

 .^Lmpelopsis Hemata, BC. Prodr. i. 633. 



Western Pehinshla ; from Canara southwards. 



Leaves 3-9 in. Flowers scarlet, when dry dark brown, showing conspicuously in the 

 midst of the white woolly tomentum. Peduncles 3-6 in., stout, woody, bearing a stiff 

 woody forked tendril 1 in. below the cyme. Fruit ^ in., black, round. Seed J by J in., 

 broadly oblong, flat, the margin incurved, the face with a thick rounded ridge running 

 down the middle, pale. 



23. V. nervosa, Laws. ; branches petioles and cymes glabrous, leaves 

 cordate subpahnate, nerves beneath prominent and hairy, flowers sessile. 

 V. rugosa, Ilerb. Ind. Or. H.f. & T. (not of Wailieh), 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 4r-5000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stems deeply grooved, hollow. Leaves often nearly 2 ft., broadly cordate, rounded 

 at the tip with 5-7 shallow lobes, coarsely and irregularly dentate, covered above with 

 minute soft hairs. Cymes stoutish, bearing midway a 1-2-times forked tendril. Fruit 

 the size of a currant, black, fleshy, pedicel \ in. Seed as in V. tomentosa but rather 

 smaller, more pointed at the apex, and darker coloured. 



24. V. pedicellata, Laws. ; branches petioles and cymes covered with 

 a short soft spreading pubescence, flowers on exceedingly slender pedicels 

 ■I in. 



Westeks Himalaya ; Kumaon, alt. 700O ft., Strach. & Wint. 



Sterne striated, solid. Leaves 1 ft. or more, cordate-ovate, serrate or dentate, gla- 

 brous above, nerves somewhat prominent below and covered with short stiff spreading 

 rusty hairs, very thin and membranous. Cymes very small, pn a short slender peduucla 

 bearing midway a weak simple tendril. Fruit ? 



