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emarginate, grooved on the back and in the groove a long linear tuherole, the raphe 

 also lying in a groove on the face. — ^According to Blume, the leaves are sometimes 4-5- 

 foliolate. 



c. FrvM oblong subfalcate, \ in. long. 



49. V. oampylocarpa, Eurz mss. ; whole plant quite glabrous, fruit 

 1-seeded, seed i by i in. cylindrical curved transversely wrinkled, style 0, 

 stigma large subpeltate. 



Assam, Griffih ; Pesu, Kurs. 



Stems round. Leaves 6-8 in., coriaceous ; petiole 24-4 in. ; leaflets stalked, obovate, 

 suddenly and shortly acuminate, faintly seiTate towards the tip. Tendrils 0. Flowers 

 in nearly sessile very diffuse widely divaricating cymes longer than the petiole. Frmt 

 dark-brown, not pulpy, pericarp reduced to a thin membrane. 



** Petals and stameTis 5. 



50. V. divarlcata, Wall, in Hh. 18'24 ; ex Gat. 5994_ h under V. 

 mgosa ; whole plant covered with deciduous down, sterna cylindiic, leaves 

 6 in.-l ft., terminal leaflet ovate acute or subacuminate lateral semi-cordate. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. &-700 ft., to E. Nepal, alt. 

 3-4000 ft. ; Maisob, Berb. Bottler. 



Stems slender, far-climbing. Leaves thinly membranous, 3- rarely 5-foliolate ,; petiole 

 3-4 in. ; leaflets serrate, at length glabrous or nearly so. Flowers dark-brown or red, 

 in small compact umbellate cymes on long woolly peduncles, which bear a forked ten- 

 dril about 1 in. from the top. Style very short. Fruit globose, the size of a currant, 

 black, 3-4-seeded. Seed J by J m., almost round, flat, emarginate, pale coloured. — 

 Wight & Amott unite this with V. tomentosa, to which it is very closely allied, but 

 differs sufSciently in the composition and texture of the leaves. 



61. V. araneosus, Baiz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 41 ? ; whole plant covered 

 with a deciduous down except on the under surface of the leaves where it 

 is persistent, stems flattened, leaves 4-6 in., terminal leaflet elliptic, lateral 

 semi-eUiptic. 



Western Peniiisula ; highest Ghats of the Concan ; Pulney Mts., Wight. 



Stems slender, far-climbing. Leaves membranous ; petiole 1-2 in. ; leaflets shortly- 

 stalked, serrate, at length glabrous above, felted beneath. Flowers and fruit as in 

 V. divaricata. Seeds f by J in., elliptic, with a round depression on the back, puckered 

 round the margins. 



Sect. III. Leaves mostly 5-foliolate, digitate. (See 58, cinnamoniea.) 

 t Flowers umbellate hardly cymose. 



62. V. obtecta,. WaU. Cat. 6026; branches rooting, young branches 

 petioles and peduncles clothed with soft villous red hairs, petioles 1|-2| in., 

 leaflets all under 4 in., flowers 4-merous. V. hederacea, Wall. Cat. 6019, 

 in part. 



Westekh HmALATA, from Kumaon, alt. 6000 ft., Thoinson; to Nipal, WaUich. — 

 DiSTBiB. Yunan. j ■ . 



Toung branches very slender, creeping, older with a roughish bark and covered with 

 numerous short .aerial rootlets. Leaflets ovate or obovate, sessile or nearly so, serrate, 

 glabrous, membranous, lateral much smaller than the terminal. Tendrils branched, very 

 Blender, short. Flowers unisexual, i in. long. Style 0, stigma flat. Fruit immature, 

 the size of a currant, globose, 1-seeded, black ? Seed ? 



+t Flowers umbellate in divaricating siibcorytnhose cymes. 

 53. V. Thomsoni, Laws. ; stems cylindric slender, whole plant gla- 

 brous, leaves glaucous deep green, petiole 2-3 in., leaflets 3-4 by 1^-2 in. 

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