652 xLiii. AMPELiDEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Vitis, 



28. V. latifolia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 661 ; whole plant quite glabrous, 

 leaves roundly cordate 3-7-angled or lobed, peduAoles shortish, bearipg a 

 slender forked tendril, petals distinct, flowers small reddish-brown. V^ 

 Kleinii, Wall. Gat. 6008 % Q and 1 D; W. & A. Prodr. 130; Bramd. Far. 

 Fl. 99. V. glabrata, Eeym in Both Nov. Sp. 156 iDC. Prodr. i 634. 

 V. indica, Wall. Gat. 5993 ? C. V. zeylanica, EttsseU Wall. Gat. 3993 ?D.— 

 Bheede Hort. Mai. vii. 13, t. 7. 



TfoETH West Ikdia ; Kumaon and Moradabad. Assam, Silhet, and the Westeeh 

 PE?iiNsnLA from the Concan and Corcmandel coast southwards. 



/Stems weak, hollow, far- climbing, striate; generally qnite glabrous. £caj7es 6-8 by 

 6-8 in. glossy. Flowers very small, in small somewhat compact thyrsoid cymes. 

 Pedvmcles hearing a long wiry tendril a little below the cyme. Style 0. Fruii the 

 size of a currant, black, 2-seeded. Seed \-\ in., elliptical, with a linear tubercle on the 

 back and the margins transversely rugose, bluntly ridged on the face. 



29. V. vinifera, Linn. Sp. Pi. 202; stems and leaves much as in 

 V. latifolia, but often tomentose, peduncles destitute of tendrils, petals 

 united at the apex, style very short thick. BG. Prodr. L 633-; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 130 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 33 ; Brand. For. Fl. 98. 



Perhaps wild in the N.W. Himalaya ; cultivated extensively in N.W. India and 

 rarely in the Peninsula and Ceylon. — Disteib. Native of W. Asia. 



Eegel, in his Cowspedus Sp. Gen. Vitis. Amer. Bar. Chin. Bor. et Jap. Hah. 9, 

 considers this plant a hybrid between V. vulpina, IAnn.,\2cai V. Labrusca, I/inn,., two 

 American species, which he identifies with the Indian V. parvifblia, Moxb., and V. 

 lanata, Boxb. 



ttt Flowers corymbosely cymose. 



30. V. montana, -Laws.; stems slender, young branches with long 

 delicate white spreading hairs otherwise glabrous, style 0. 



NiPA^, Wallich {in Herb. Hook.) ; Silhet, HooTc.f. & T. 



Leaves 8-12 by 6-8 in., cordate-ovate, or lobed as in V. latifolia. Common 

 peduncle 3-5 in., bearing about an inch below the flowers a forked tendril; cymes 

 small. Petals separating ? Fruit f — Very closely allied to V. latifoUa, from which it 

 differs oiJy in the character of the cyme, and in the Idng white hairs on the younger 

 portions of the stem. 



31. v. g'landulosa, Wall, in Roseb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 479 ; Cat. 



6006 ; branches leaves and petioles covered with a short dusky pubescence, 

 leaves cordate-ovate crenate sometimes 3-lobed, peduncles not bearing 

 tendrils. 



NiPAL, WaUich. 



Stems cylindrio, solid, jointed and thickened at the nodes, with greyish dotted bark. 

 Leaves 3-6 by 2-4 in. Flowers in small dichotoAions corymbose cymes shorter than 

 the leaves. Fruit small, globose, dark-purple, 3-4-seeded. Seed as in V. lanata. — 

 According to Wallich the peduncles sometimes bear a twice or thrice diohotomous 

 tendril. 



'I"1"H' Flowers spicately or raeemosely-cymose. 



32. V. parvifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 662 ; whole plant quite glabrous, 

 leaves 2-4 in. membranous, flowers minute green pedicellate, style distinct. 

 WaU. Gat. 6005 ; Brand. For. Fl. 99. V. truncata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. L ii, 

 609. V. vulpina, Linn. var. y, Begel Gonspect. Sp. Gen. Vitis, 6. V. Wal- 

 lichii, BG. Prodr. i. 634. ? V. Purani, Bon Prodr. 188. 



