1896.] G. King— Kdltertafo/or a Flora of the Malayan VeninmU. 385 
Erect shrubs destitute of tendrilB. 'Petals 
and stamens connate with tlie disc. Ovary 
3-6-celled, cells l-ovuled ... ... 3. Lkea. ' 
I, Yms, Irinn. 
Sarmentose slirnbp, usually climbing by means of leaf-opposed 
tendi-ils. Leams simple or 3-9-folioIatf^^ digitate or pedate, rarely pin- 
nate or bipiimate. Flow&rs in umbellate paniculate racemose or spicate 
cymes, usually ebracteate, sometimes polygamous, Calyx short, entire, 
or 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, free or cohering at tbe apex. Stamens 
4-5, inserted below t^e margins of the disk ; anthers free. Ovary 
2- very rarely 3-4-ceUed ; style 0 or short ; stigma minute and entire, or 
large and 4-lobcd, ovules 2 in each celi. Berry ovoid or globose, 1-2- 
celled; cells l-2-Beeded. — Distrib. About 375 species growing Mostly 
in the trapics and snbti'opics of Asia Africa and Polynesia, more rarely 
ID America. 
Note. — The genni VitU as nndoretood by Messrs. Bentbam and Hooker in their 
Genera Flantaritm and bj Mr. Lawson in hts acoonnt of the Indinn spocies ia 
Hooker's Flora of British India, comprises varioua plants irhich many botanical 
writers (and among ofcliers M. Planclion) dietribnto into genera which, as it 
appears to me, are founded on ohttraotora ratlier insuflBoient to warrant j^oneric rank, 
although Btifficient to form the hasos of aeotions of otie large broadly^marked gen as. 
As tbe Bpocies treated of here are numoroaa and not very easy of identification, 
I have mad© two keys for th&ra ; the firat drawn np under fonr sections which are 
OOOBidered genera by M. Planchon in bia mnnograph of tbe Ampelidae in M. De 
Cftndolle^s Suites du Frodromus i tbe aocond on the principle followed by Mr, Lawaon 
ia Sii* Joseph Hooker's Flora of Britiah India. 
' Sect. I. Ampelocisszts. Flowers 4- to 5-merotis j disc fin ti alar, ad- 
herent to the base of the ovary ; styh conical, etriate, stigma minute ; 
injlorescmce thyreoid corymbiform or cymose, the pedancl© often 
tendril -bearing. 
InfloreRcenc© thyrsoid ; leaves simple ... L V, harhata. 
Iiifliorescence spicate or paniculate-spicate, the 
flowers in fascicles or solitary ... 2. V. macrosiachya. 
Inflorescence an elongated pendulons raceme 
of short spikea. 
Leaves simple. 
Sparsely strigose on both anrfaces ,.. 3. V. gracilis. 
Densely cinnamoneotis-tomontose on the 
lower siu'fac© ... ... .„ 4, F, dnnamonea. 
