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drying green, oval, oblique at the base, apex blunt, margin crenulate 
or crenulate-serrate, main lateral nerve about 9 mm. from the 
midrib on each side, secondary lateral nerves 7-9 arching forwards 
to the margin. Length of lamina 3*8-5 cm., breadth 3-4 cm., length 
of petiole about 1 cm. Infloresence of short pedunculate axillary 
cymes i'2— 1*8 cm. long, 5- io-flowered, peduncles about 7 cm. long. 
Flowers shortly pedicellate, glabrous or with a very sparse pubes- 
cence. Calyx obconical five lobed, lobes about equal to depth of 
calyx cup, keeled internally, acute. Petals minute, eucullate. Disc 
flat, obscurely io-lobed, glabrous. Stamens 5, filaments about as 
long as the calyx lobes, anthers short. Ovary 3-celled, styles 3, 
united almost to the top, stigmas sub-capitate, Fruit glabrous 
brown, oval, r8 cm. by 1*3 cm., 2-celled and 2-seeded. 
Legain, Shaik Mokim ! 
Distribution.— -C hittagong, Burma, Andaman Islands. 
XXIX.— AMPELIDEdE. 
71. Vitis Linn. 
111 . Vitis discolor Dalz. 
Sidoktaya. 
Distribution. — Peninsular India, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Burma* 
Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Cochin-China. 
112. * Vitis assamica Laws. ' • - • 
Minbu district. 
Distribution. — Sikkim, Assam, Chittagong, Burma. 
118, * Vitis Aubertiana n. sp. 
Branches cylindrical, ridged and furrowed when dry, glabrous. 
Leaves petiolate, simple, glabrous on both surfaces,, drying green, 
petiole about 4*5 cm. long, lamina 1 1 to 25 cm. from petiole, to apex 
and about the same transversely, palmatifid into . 3-6 long narrow 
dictations, 10-25 cm. long, 1*3-3 cm » broad, distantly or obscurely 
serrate or irregular in outline, each with a median nerve prominent 
below and giving off horizontal secondary nerves to interarch near 
the margin. Infloresence of axillary cymes 4*5 — 8:5 cm. long, 
glabrous or scurfily, pubescent, especially on the pedicels. Flowers 
minute, on pedicels about 5 mm. long, calyx entire, petals 4, coherent 
in the bud, stamens 4, style very short, truncate. 
Sidoktaya, Shaik Mokim ! 
The extraordinary leaves of this species distinguish it readily 
from all other Indian species. - 
