658 XLiii. AMPELiDEJE. (M. A. LawsoD.) [yitis. 



elliptic-lanceolate serrate pale beneath, flowers 4-merous, seed darkpinMsh- 

 red. 



Khasia Mm, alt. 4-6000 ft., H./.* T. „ ^ , t ^ ^- . 



A low creeper, turning red. Leaflets narrowed into short Btalks. Tendrilg stontish, 

 branching. Flowers in alender widely divaricating cymes, green. Style subulate. 

 I'ruit the size of a currant, globose,' 2 -4-seeded, pruinose. Seed iin., obovoid, rounded 

 on the hack, wedge-shaped on the face. 



54. V. elong-ata, Wail. Cat. 6016 ; whole plant quite glabrous, branches 

 slightly flattened thick and succulent polished, petioles 5-8 in., leaflets 

 5-7 by 2-2^ in. elliptic-lanceolate shortly acuminate serrate memtonous 

 narrowed into a stalk, flowers 4-nierous. Cissus elongata, Boxb. M. Ind. 

 i 411 ; W.da A. Prodr. 128. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 1-5000 ft., Silhet and Beihial ; Cokomandel, Botthirgh. 



A very large climber running up and over the highest trees. Branches ievi or 

 until the plant arrives at a great height. Tendrils simple. Cymes di-tnchotomous, 

 the last divisions short ending in small umbels. StyU short. Fruit 1 by 4 in., 

 elliptic, smooth, black, ] -seeded. Seed fin., obovate, smoothish.— Wight & Amott 

 say that the leaves in this species, as also in the next, are sometimes pedate. 



56. V. auriculata, Rooab. Fl. Ind. i. 411 (Cissus) ; branches cylindric 

 succulent the young parts softly pubescent, petioles 4^7 in., leaflets on long 

 stalks 2-6 by 1-4 in. obovate acute or shortly acuminate serrate mem- 

 branous, flowers 4-merous. Watt. Cat. 6031 ; W. & A. Prodr. 129, in part; 

 Wight Ic. 145. Cissus auriculata, DC. Prodr. i. 632 ; Dah. <fc Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 40. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; alt. 3-5000 ft., and Chittagono, H.f. & T. ; Bemgal and Biema, 

 WalUch; Maisor, Seyne. 



A large climber like V. elongata. Sarh'of the older stems spongy and deeply cracked. 

 Leaves softly pubescent beneath when young, at length glabrous; stipules large, ear- 

 shaped. Tendrils 2-3-cleft. 'Flowers small. Cymes on long thick weak succulent 

 peduncles, divaricating, longer than the petiole. Fruit the size of a cherry, globose, 

 red, l-seeded. Seed elliptical, rounded at the base, J by ^V i"- — None of the_ leaves 

 in the many specimens I have met with are pedate, as Wight & Amott say; indeed, 

 the specimens in Wight's herbarium numbers 427 and 967 do not belong to this species, 

 but to V. lanceolaria. i 



56. V. planicaulis, Eooh.f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5685 ; whole plant quite 

 glabrous, stems greatly flattened, petioles 4-7 in., leaflets on stalks |-1| in. 

 5-8 by 2-3 in. oblong-lanceolate subacuminate obtusely-serrate mem- 

 branous or subcoriaceous, flowers 4r-merous. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, and Khasia Mtb., alt. 3-4000 ft. 



A vast climber reaching to the top of the highest trees, and sending down from its 

 branches long thin leafless bands. Stems at the base often 1^ ft. wide and 1 in. thick. 

 Tendrils stout, simple. Flowers green. Cymes subcorymbose with divaricating 

 branches. Style subulate ; stigma 4-lobed. Fruit the size of a cheny, round, red? 

 1-2-seeded. Seed 4 by J in., nearly cylindrical, transversely rugose. 



57. V. obovata, Laws.; branches petioles peduncles and tendrils 

 clothed with a long soft spreading fulvous pubescence, stems much flat- 

 tened, petiole 4^7 in., leaflets 6-10 in. stalked glabrous except upon the 

 stalks obovate acute or subacuminate distantly and coarsely serrate. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft., B. f. & T. 



Tendrils stout, simple, very long. Cymes shortly pedunculate, subcorymbose with 

 divaricating branches. Flowers f Fruit the size of a cherry, globose, 2-Beeded. 



