174 AMPELIDJE^. [Vitis. 



9. V. rosea, B.oyle III. 149, t. 26, f. 1 {Cissus) ; Brand. For. Fl. 100 ; 

 Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. V, 475. 



Scandent, with terete striate branches, the younger ones clothed with 

 appressed rufous pubescence, becoming more or less glabrous. Leaves 

 large, long-petioled, rounded or somewhat 3-lobed, cordate, acuminate ; 

 margin unequally serrate-dentate, 5-nerved, laxly pilose ; petioles pilose ;. 

 stipules ovate-oblong, villous. Cymes peduncled, branches 3-chotomous. 

 Flowers densely subumbelled ; •pedicels clothed with reddish pubescence ; 

 bracts hairy. Petals 4, distinct, ovate from abroad base, pale pink. Berry 

 fusiform, 1-4-seeded . 



Mohand Pass on theSiwalik range (Eoyle), and in similar situations at the 

 foot of the Himalaya Distbib. • Garhwal (Falconer No. 352). N. 

 Kanara (Talbot No. 1177). Very near F. repanda, but the leaves are much 

 larger and not so broad in proportion ; it also differs by its pink flowers 

 and differently shaped berry. A fragmentary specimen in the Saharan-- 

 pur herbariun collected by Falconer in the Kheree Ghat (Mohand Pass) 

 shows the characteristic leaves and the fusiform berry. The writer has^ 

 seen no living specimens. 



10. V. adnata, Wall. Cat. 599S {in part); W. Sf A. Prod. 126 ; Roijle III. 

 144 ; Brand. For. Fl. 100 ; F- B. I. i, 649 ; Watt E. D. ; King in Journ. 

 As. Sec. Beng.LXV, pt. ii, 110. Cissus adnata, Boxb. Fl.'ind. i, 405;. 

 Planch, in DC, Mon. Phan. V. 494. C. latifolia, Vahl ; D. 4- G. Bomb ; 

 Fl. 39. 



A. large woody climber, with slender sulcate branches, the young shoots- 

 4i-angled. Petioles, inflorescence and under surface of leaves clothed with- 

 rufous tomentum. Leaves 2-5 in. long, on stout tomentose petioles, ovate- 

 cordate, often oblique, abruptly acuminate or cuspidate, bristly serrate, 

 sometimes almost 3-lobed ; stipules membranous, rounded, caducous. 

 Tendrils slender, forked, woolly. Cymes peduncled, much divided ; braa^ 

 teoles small, soon falling. Floivers small, pedicelled, in dense umbels. 

 Petals 4, triangular-ovate, usually distinct. Style equalling the ovary. 

 Bei-ry about the size of a pea, obovoid, smooth, black when ripe, 1-rarely 

 2-seeded. Seeds rugose. 



Dehra Dun and forests of Oudh. Distrib. : From the W. Himalaya, 

 at low elevations, to Bengal, Assam, Burma and in the Malay Penins. ; also- 

 in S, India and (3eylon, extending to Java, Borneo and the Philippines. 



11. V. trlfolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 203 ; V. carnosa, Wall. Cat. 6018 ; W. <Sf 

 A. Prod. 127 ; Royle III. 144 ; Brand. For. Fl. 101 ; F. B. I. i, 654 ; Watt 

 E. D. Cissus carnosa, Lamlc. ; Boxb. Fl.Ind. i, 409 ; D. Sf G. Bomb. Fl. 

 40. Vern. Amal-bel. 



A slender climber with angular branches. Young parts usually clothed 

 with grey pubescence. Leaves 3-f oliolate, petioled ; iea^eis 1-3 in. long, 

 shortly stalked, broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate or obovate, obtuse or 

 acute, fleshy or submembranoas, crenate or incise-dentate ; stipules ob- 

 long. Tendrils slender, wiry, usually branched. Cymes usually axillary, 

 often longer than the leaves, 3-5-rayed, with many divarica,ting cymose 

 branches. PJowers greenish-white, shortly stalked. Petals 4, distinct. Style 

 conspicuous. Berry obovoid-globose, 3-4-seeded. Seed trigonous, rugose. 



