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AMPELIDEJE. 



[VlTiS 



1. VITIS, Linn, (including Cissus, L.); Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 645. 



Sarmentose shrubs, climbintr usually by means of leaf-opposed 

 •tendrils. Leaves simple, or digitately pr pedately 3-9-f oliolate, rarely 

 pinnate Flowers in umbellate, paniculate, racemose or spicate cymes, 

 usually without bract?, sometimes polygamous. Calyx shorts, entire 

 or 4-5-toothed oi-lobed. Petals 4-5, free or cohering at the apex. 

 Stamens 4-5, inserted below the margin of the disk; anthers 

 free. Ovary usually 2-celled ; style shorter 0; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Berry ovoid or subglobose, 1-2-celled, cells 1-2-seeded. — -Species 

 about 375, chiefly in tropical and subtropical Asia, Aftica and Poly- 

 nesia, more rarely in America. 



The species enumerated below as occurring within the area of , this 

 flora, fall into four sections, which, with five others, have been raised to 

 -the rank of genera by Planchon in his important work on the Ampelidece, 

 published in Vol. V of DeCandoUe's Monographise Phanerogamaram 

 <1883). 



Petals 5, cohering in a calyptra, leaves simple. 



(VlTIS). 



Leaves glabrous, inflorescence bifurcate . 1. V. pcurvijolia. 

 Under surface of leaves with grey deciduous 



tomentum, inflorescence not bifurcate . 2. V. vinifera. 

 Petals 5, distinct ; leaves simple (Ampelo- 



CISSUS). 



Leaves quite glabrous . . . . . 3 F. latifolia. 

 Leaves densely rufous tomentose beneath . 4. V. rugosa. 

 Leaves rufous-woolly on the prominent 



veins beneath 5. F. indica. 



Petals 4, distinct. 

 Style short, stigma dilated, 4-lobed ; leaves 

 3-5-f oliolate (Tetbastigma). 

 Flowers unisexual; leaves 3, pedately 

 o-foliolate 6.V. lanceolaria. 



Flowers 2-sexual, leaves pedately 5-f oliolate 

 Style subulate, stigma minute. (Cissus). 

 Leaves simple. 

 Leaves, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. 



Berry pyriform 



Berry fusiform ..... 

 Leaves rusty-tomentose beneath . 

 Leaves 3-f oliolate 



7. F. capriolata. 



8. V. repanda. 



9. F. rosea. 

 ,10. F. adnata. 

 11. F. trifolia. 



1. V. parvifolia, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i, 662 ; Royle III. 145; Brand. For. Fl. 99 ; 

 F. B, I. i, 652 ; King %)x Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. LXV, pt. ii, HI ; Watt E, D. 



