Yitis.] xtiii. AMPELiDE^. (M. A. Lawson.) 651 



tt Flowers panioulately cymose. 



25. V. eriodada, TF. i; A. Prodr. 130; branches and petioles covered 

 with a dense subdeciduous tomentum, leaves cordate-ovate coriaceous, 

 flowers sessile and often almost hidden in the woolly tomentum, cymes 

 compact or woody, peduncle 3-12 in. bearing two-thirds of the way astoul; 

 woody simple tendril. V. indica, Thwaites Enum. QZ.—Kheede Hort. Mai. vii;, 

 t.7. 



Westekk Peninsula; Bheede, Wight; Ceylon, common up to 3000 ft. 



Stem stout, hollow, cylindrio, striate. Leaves 6-12 by 34-7 in., acute or sub- 

 acuminate, coarsely dentate, the teeth terminated by a hard obtuse point, at length 

 (mite glabrous above, nerves very prominent beneath. Oymes branching divaricately. 

 jPetofe distinct. Style 0. Fruit oblong, about the size of a grape. 



26. V. barbata. Wall, in Boxb. ' Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 478 ; branches 

 petioles and peduncles covered with numerous long spreading glandular 

 capitate hairs, leaves cordate-ovate membranous, peduncle flattened 4-8 in . 

 bearing a long forked slender tendril above its middle, cymes regularly 

 paniculate as long as the peduncle. V. latifolia, Hh. Ham. ; Wall-. Gat. 

 5994 ?G. V. lanata, Hb. Roxb. ; Wall. Gai. 5995 c, d. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 0-3000 ft. ; Assam, Silhet, Pegu, and Tenassekim. 



Branches stoutish, hollow, dark brown or nearly black. Leaves 8 in.-l ft. or more, 

 roundly cordate-ovate, sinuate-dentate, sometimes sublobed, at length glabrous above, 

 puberulous.or densely toiuentose beneath. Flowers sessile in large lax ovate paniculate 

 oyraea. Fruit the size of a large currant, black, shortly pedicellate. Seed J by J in., 

 elliptic, the back flattish and shalluwly grooved, the face rather sharply ridded, nearly 

 smooth. — A very distinct species, known at once by the long s'preading black hairs. 

 Wallich describes the flowers as being 4-cleft, but although they may be so soiuetimes 

 it ia certain that they are generally pentamerous. 



27. V. lanata, JRoxh. Fl. Ind. i. 660 ; branches petioles and cymes 

 snore or less pubescent or tomentose, leaves cordate-ovate shortly acuminate 

 membranous, peduncle bearing a simple or forked tendril, petals cohering 

 at the top. W. & A. Prodr. 131; Wall, Gat. 5995 a, b, e ; Brand. For. 

 Fl 99. V. cordifolia, Poth Nov. Sp. 168. V. indica, Hb. Ham. ; Wall. 

 Cat. 5994? K V. Heyneana, DC. Prodr. i. 634. V. pentagona, Hb. Ham. ; 

 Wall. Cat. 5994 ? F. V. rugosa, Wall. Cat. 5994 a, b, c, and d in pa/rt. 

 V. Labrusca, Linn. vat. •)(, Begel. Gonspect. Sp. Gen. 9. Cissus viti- 

 ginea, Posib. Fl. Ikd. i. 406 [note of Linnceus). Alima ? cristatum, Wall.,Gat. 

 4994. 



Tropical Himalaya, from Kashmir and Jamu, alt. 1-4000 ft. and Kdmaon, alt. 

 6-7600. ft., to SiKKiM, alt. 1-5000 ft. ; Assam, the Khasia Mts., CHiTTAaoNe, Bibma, 

 ami the Ciecass. 



A very variable plant in the size shape and vestiture of the leaves, usually they are 

 3-6 by l|-3 in., sometimes larger, and usually softly pubescent, but sometimes felted 

 beneath, or nearly glabrous. Flowers small, green, forming a thyrsoid pani6ulate cyme. 

 Petals cohering at the apex rarely separating. Fruit the size of a large pea, round, 

 purple, 4seeded. Seed J by § in., obtriangular, subemarginate, rounded and smooth on 

 the back with a small spathulate tubercle, face wedge-shaped with a shallow hnear Re- 

 pression on each side of the ridge.— The following varieties may be distmguished : 



Vae. I. rv^osa; leaves ovate or cordate-ovate nearly 2 ft. clothed beneath with a 

 dense matted tomentum ; stems thicker than in the type with a dark deciduous bark.— 



Var. 2: glabra; leaves ' almost quite glabrous ; stems more slender than in the type, 

 approaching V.parvifolia. — Garwhal and Khasia Mts, 



