ViTis.] AMPELIDJE^. 173 



6. V. lanceolaria, Wall. Cat. 6013 (in :part.) ; W. ^ A. Prod. 128 ; 

 Itoyle 111. 145 ; Brand. For. Fl. 101 ; F. B. I. s 660 {in ^art). V. muricata, 

 W. ^ A. Trod. 128. V. serratifolia, W. Sf A. I. c. {not of Rottl.) 

 Cissus lanceolaria, Boseb. Fl. Ind. i, 412 ; Boyle III. 145. G. muricata, 

 D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl. 40. Tetrastigma lance olarium, Planchon in DC. 

 Mon. Phaner. V, 423. 



A large evergreen climber, glabrous except the inflorescence. Branches 

 cylindrical, woody, with rough often muricated bark. Tendrils 

 leaf-opposed, simple. Leaves 3-pedately 5-foliolate, fleshy or coriaceous ; 

 leaflets 3-5 in. long, stalked, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, distantly ser- 

 rate. Flowers 1-sexual, 4i-merous, in short compact axillary cymes, pale 

 yellow. Style short ; stigma peltate, 4-lobed. Berry the size of a small 

 cherry, subpyriform or almost globose. 



-Forests of Oudh (Brandis). Distbib. : Chota Nagpur, Assam, S. India, 

 Ceylon ; also in Burma and in the Malay Peninsula. 



7. V. capriolata, Don. Prod. Fl. Nep. 188 ; Brand. For. Fl. 101 ; F. B. J. 

 i, 658. Cissus capriolata, Boyle III. 149, t. 26, f. 2. C. serrulatus, Boxh. 

 Fl. Ind. i, 414, C. napaulensis, DC. ; Boyle III. 145. Tetrastigma serrulatum 

 Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 432. 



A slender glabrous climber with wiry stems. Tendrils slender, simple 

 or forked. Leaves pedately 5-foliolate, on petioles lji-2^ in. long ; leaflets 

 l|-3in.long, obovate to lanceolate, the lateral more or less oblique, acute 

 or subacuminate, serrate or crenate-denticulate, with bristles in the 

 notches, often cuneate at the base ; stipules scarious. Cymes axillary or 

 terminating short lateral branches, peduncled. Peduncles usually with 

 several scarious conspicuous bracts. Flowers 4!-merous, pedicelled, in 

 umbelliform clusters. Stigma sessile, large, flat. Berry about the size 

 of a currant, globose, 2-i-seeded, black. 



Dehra Dun. Distbib. : Abundant tip to 7,000 ft. on the Himalaya, from 

 the .Jumna to Sikkim and Bhutan, also on the Khasia Hills and in Chit- 

 tagong. A very ornamental plant clinging like ivy to the trunks of trees. 

 Flowers during the rainy season. 



8. y. repanda, W. ^ A. Prod. 125 ; F. B. I. i, 648 {excl. syn. 

 vitiginea, L. (Sf C. rosea, Boyle) ; King in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. LXV. 

 pt.ii,110. CisSus repanda, Vahl ; B. Sc Q. Bomb. Fl. 39; Planch, in 

 DC. Mon. Phan. V, 474. 



A large trailing or climbing vine. Branches terete, brittle, clothed with 

 reddish wool when young. Tendrils deciduous. Leaves simple, 3-6 in., 

 broader than long, ovate, cordate, abrviptly acuminate ; margin crenate- 

 repand or serrate, rusty-tomentose beneath when young, at length glab- 

 rous. Cym,es peduncled; tracts and 6racteoles densely woolly. Flowers 

 in umbel-like clusters, pedicelled. Petals ■!, triangular-oblong, ultimately 

 separating from the apex, creamy-white. Berry pyriform, |-ia. long, 

 1-seeded, tipped by the mucronate style. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, Eohilkhand, Merwara. Disteib. : 

 W. Himalaya from the Jumna eastwards, at low elevations, Bengal, 

 Assam, Sylhet, S. India, Ceylon. Flowers in May and June. 



