THis.\ XLiii. AMPELIDB^, (M. A. Lawson.) 663 



These 3 last species are closely allied to V. cinnamomea and V. elegans, iind -with 

 them form the binding link between this genus and Pteriscmthes. 



Sect. VI. Leaves 1-3-pinnate. 



74. v. rublfolia, WaU, in Rood). Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 480 ; Cat 6037 : 

 branches and younger parts pubescent, leaves pinnate, leaflets closely and 

 sharply serrate. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft., De Silva, &o. ; Silhet, Wallieh. Assam, Masters. 



A large climbing shrub, branches slender, angular. Leaves 6-9 in. ; leaflets ?4-34 by 

 l-2i in., shortly stalked, 3-5-paired, subcordate-ovate, acute or subaouminate. 

 Tendrils forked, glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Flowers email, green, umbel- 

 late in slender dichotomous subcorymbose cymes. Fruit the size of a currant, red; 

 turning black. Seed i by J in., broadly obovoid, the back rounded and with a 

 spathulate tubercle, the margins transversely rugose, face sharply wedge-shaped, light- 

 brown. 



75. V. cantoniensis, Seem. Bot. Herald Voy. 370 ; whole plant quite 

 glabrous, leaves pinnate or the lower pair of pinnae ternately compound. 

 Cissus cantoniensis. Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 175. C. diversifolia, Walp. 

 PL Meyen. 314. Hedera hypoglauca, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 724. 



Malacca, Qriffitk. — DraiRiB. Hongkong. 



Stem slender, cylindric. Leaflets 5-paired, 2-3 by 4-1 in., ovate-lanceolate, coarsely 

 crenate, whitish beneath. Tendrils branched. Flowers small, in dichotomous corym- 

 bose cymes, 5-meroue ? Style subulate. Fruit and seed as in V. rubifolia, — A spe- 

 cimen in Herb. Hook., marked Khasia, Griffith, is evidently a fragment of the plants 

 collected in Malacca. 



DOUBTrUL OE EXCLUDED SPECIES. ^ 



CissDS ACOTiPOLiA, Poir. ; DO. ProAr. i. 630. Description too short for identifica- 

 tion. 



C. Walliohiana, 'Ivjrcz. in £uU. Mosc. is Hedera Helix, L. 



Vrris ATEOViEiDis, WaU. Cat. 6040, is Gymnostemma trigyna. 



V. EETTHEOCLADA, Kv/Tz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, ii. 301, from Pegu (Kurz) 

 is apparently allied to V. obovata, but the description is not sufficient for identification. 



V. TEicHOPHOEA, WaU. Oca. 9032, is Gymnostemma trigyna ? 



2. FTESISANT8ES, Elume. 



Large scandent or sarmentose plants furnished with tendrils. Leaves 

 alternate, simple or 3-7-foliolate, digitate or pedate. Flowers small, -4-5- 

 merous, inserted on a flat expanded membranous pedunculated rachis, 

 unisexual ; male flowers marginal, often pedicelliite ; female sessile. Calyx 

 cup-shaped or obsoletely toothed. Petals separating. Ova/ry 2-celled ; style 

 very short, stigma capitate. Berry globose or obovoid, 1-4-seeded,— 

 DiSTEiB. Sp. 5 or 6. Malay and Indian archipelago. 



Very closely allied to Vitis, especially to those forms of the genus in which the 

 flowers are sessile on racemose spikes. Miquel is probably right m uniting it with 

 Vitis. 



1. P. poUta, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 95; whole plant quite 

 'glabrous, leaves simple. . 



' Maetaban, atMoulmein, Xo6&;SiNOAPOEE,Jlfai«^oy.— Disteib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



An exceedingly slender far-climbing plant. Leaves 4-8 by 2-3i in., eUiptio-oblong 

 or ovate, acute, subcordate, distantly and spinosely serrate or entire, membranous. 

 TendMs bearing the red expanded rachis. Flowers 4-merous. Mruii f 



