31. AMPELIDEiE. 



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Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards, common on fche 

 Nortii Kanara ghats in evergreen forests. Fl. and Fr. cold season. Wood 

 jellowish, rather hard, very similar to that of Ventilago calyculata. The 

 diameter of the largo oval simple or divided pores is greater than the 

 distance between the rays and causing them to present a wavy appearance. 

 Annual rings distinct. Weighs about 40 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



2. G. leptostacliya, DO. Prodr. II. 40 ; Fl. Br. 1. 1. 643 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 Bomb. Fl. oO. Himalaya, Assam and the Khasya Mountains, Tenasserim 

 and the Malay Archipelago. Konkan, Dalz. In the Prodr, Fl. Pen. I. 

 Or. W. & A. state that this is a northern species. It is included in this 

 work on the authority of Dalz., who states that it is found in the Warri 

 country ab Banda. G. tilicefolia^ Heyne, Roxb, Fl. Ind. I. 632, is a 

 synonym. Fl. Aug, Fr. 0. S. 



Order 31. AMPELIDE^. 



Erect shrubs or small trees with jointed branches, sometimes her- 

 baceous or woody climbers furnished with simple or branched tendrils. 

 Juice copious, watery. Leaves alternate or the lower opposite^ simple or 

 compound. Flowers small, regular, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual, 

 in cymose panicles^ spikes or racemes. Calyx small, entire, 4-5-dentate 

 or lobed. Petals 4-5^, hypogynous, valvate, free or variously cohering. 

 Stamens as many as the petals and opposed to them on the outside of 

 the disk ; anthers free and distinct or connate. Disk free or connate 

 with the petals stamens or ovary. Ovary 2-6-celled ; ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell, erect, anatropous. Style simple, short or ; stigma minute 

 or flat and lobed. Fruit a l-6-seeded berry ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds 

 erect, often rugulose ; albumen copious, cartilaginous ; embryo short, 

 basal ; cotyledons ovate. 



Scandent shrubs usually with tendrils. Ovary 2-6-celled, 



cells 2-ovuled 1. Vi ris. 



Erect shrubs, no tendrils. Ovary 3-6-celied, cells 1- 



ovuled ... 2. Lee A. ^ 



1. VITIS, Linn. 



Shrubs climbing by means of leaf-opposed tendrils. Leaves simple 

 pedately or digitately 3-9-foliate. Flowers variously cymose, her- 

 maphrodite, unis3xual or polygamous, usually without bracts. Calyx 

 short, entire, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free or covering at the apex. 

 Stamens 4-5, inserted below the margin of the disk. Ovary 2, rarely 

 3-4-celled ; style or short, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a 1-4-seeded 

 berry. 



Leaves simple. Cymes umbellate. 

 Flowers tetramerous. 



Stems and branches acutely winged ... 1. V. qifadran^alaris. 

 Stems cylindric or obscurely winged. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Branches terete, mealy-white ... 2. V» repens. 

 Branches G-angled, bright red ... 3. V. discolor. 



