81. ampeltde;r. 



101 



stipules .ind fibrous roots separate from C. quadrangular is, which fias 

 tuberous roots and aurieled stipules. The leaves and young shoots are 

 eaten in curries. 



2. V. repens, W. & A. Prod. 125 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 646. Cissus repens^ 

 Lam. Planch. Saitos au Prodr. v. 504; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 39. 0. 

 Gordata, Koxb. Fl. Ind. I. 407; Grab. Cat. Bomb. F1.32. 



Eastern tropical Himalaya, Khasia, Assam and Silhet, and the Malay 

 Archipelago. Very common on the North K^nara and Konkan Ghats. 

 Fl. March. Fr. May. A stout glabrous climber. Tendrils leaf-opposed, 

 forked. Leaves membranous, cordate, glaucous. Fruit black, pulpy (size 

 of a small cherry), edible. Seed pyriform, rugose on the sides. Flower- 

 ing panicles appear before the leaves in March. 



3. V. discolor, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Jour. Bot. XL 39 ; Fl. Br. I, L 

 G47. Oissus discolor^ Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 40. Planch. Suites au 

 Prodr. V. 496. Telitsayel, M. 



Throughout the moist forests of the Konkan and North K^nara. Fl. 

 Aug. Fr. Oct. -Nov. Tropical Himalaya, Khasia and Silhet, Malay 

 Peninsula and Java. Much cultivated in gardens throughout the tropics, 

 A very ornamental plant easily and readily distinguished from the other 

 species of Indian Vitis. 



4. V. pallida, W. & A. Prod. 125; FJ. Br. I. 1. 647. Oissus pallida, 

 Planch. Suites au Prodr. v. 477. V. Linncei^ Wall ? Cissus vitiginea, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 40. This is, I think, the common Deccan and 

 Bombay Karnatic species referred to in Dalzell's Bomb. Fl. Usually an 

 erect, glabrous glaucous shrub. I have a climber, collected near Sut- 

 gattee in the Belgaam District, bearing leaf-opposed tendrils and with 

 scaly pubescence on the calyx and pedicels which is very near and proba- 

 bly connects V. Heyneana, Wall, with V. pallida. Fl. H. S. Fr. Aug. 

 V. WoodrowU, Stapf. Mss. Cooke Fl. Pres. Bomb. 248. Yern. Girnul, is 

 I think identical with V. pallida, ^ A. 



5. V. glauca, W. & A. Prod. 126 ; Fl. Br. L 1. 648. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. In the evergreen 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kanara^ not common. Fl. Fr. ApL- 

 May. This species has been united with G. repens, Lamk., and the Vitis 

 repens, of the Fl. Br. I. by Planchon in his Suites au Prodr. Syst. Nat. 

 Sir G. King is apparently of the same opinion : vide his materials for a 

 Flora of the Malay Peninsula, p. 400. The North K^nara specimens of 

 V. glauca, appear to me to be distinct from those of G. repens, Lanik. V. 

 repens, is found in the more open deciduous forests, wheras the slender 

 stemmed V. glauca^ is, as far as I have seen, entirely confined to the dense, 

 evergreens. 



6. V. gigantea, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXV. 212; Fl. Br. L 1. 

 648. Oissus gigantea, Planch, in DC. Mon. Phan. 5. 622. Common 

 throughout the moist forests of North Kanara from the sca-levcl upwards, 

 also probably in the Konkan. Fl. Fr. Aug. 



