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AMPELIDE.35. 
1. VITIS, Linn. § Cissus. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube obconic ; limb obscurely 4- 
toothed. Petals 4, valvate, cohering by their tips. Stamens 4, free, 
opposite the petals. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in a cell ; style short, 
erect ; stigma capitate. Fruit a berry, often by abortion 1-celled 
and 1-seeded. — Climbing, rarely suberect shrubs with copious leaf- 
opposed spiral tendrils, simple or compound leaves and copious minute 
flowers, usually in cymes. Distrtb. Found the world, mostly in the 
tropics. Species 250. 
Leaves digitately 5-foliolate 1. V. Commersoni. 
Leaves digitately 3-foliolate or pinnately 5-foliolate ... 2. V. Mappia. 
1. V. Commersoni, Baker. Branches climbing, glabrous, tetra- 
gonous, moderately slender. Leaves digitate ; leaflets 5, sessile, lan- 
ceolate, 3-4 inches long, in. broad, narrowed to both ends ; teeth 
distant, setiferous ; petioles cylindrical. Flowers and fruit unknown. 
Cissus palmata, Poir. Encye. Suppl. i. 107. 
Mauritius, Commerson. Escarped rocks of Montagne Ory, Bojer. Endemic. I 
have not seen any specimens. 
2. V. Mappia, Baker. An erect tree, 12-30 feet high, glabrous in 
all its parts, with very soft wood and brittle thick fleshy terete zigzag 
branches. Leaves petioled, palmately 3-foliolate, or pinnately 5-folio- 
late, or upper simple ; leaflets 2-4 in. long, acute, rather thick and 
fleshy, entire, cuneate at the base ; stipules deltoid, membranous, cadu- 
cous. Flowers in lax peduncled leafless or leaf-opposed cymes 2-3 in. 
broad ; pedicels short. Petals 5, greenish, T J ¥ in. long. Berry ovoid, 
purple, fleshy, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Cissus Mappia, Lam. ; EC. Prod. i. 
632. 
Mauritius, formerly abundant on the Pouce range, and still found in the old 
forests of the Great Bay and in the part of the island called Mapou, to which it has 
given its name. Endemic. Mapou. 
Mr. Home has sent us from amongst Bojer’ s Mauritian gatherings the leaves 
of a third species, which are glabrous, membranous, pinnately trifoliolate, the two 
side leaflets with a short and the end one with a long petiolule, ovate cuspidate, 
3-4 in. long, broadly rounded at the base, crenato-repand, with minute cusps to the 
crenations. It is probably an unnamed plant. 
2. LEEA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube obconic ; teeth 5, distinct, 
deltoid. Petals 5, valvate, joined at the base to the staminal tube, 
reflexed when expanded. Stamens 5 ; filaments united in a tube to 
the top ; anthers united by their margins inside the tube. Ovary 
5-celled ; style short ; ovules solitary. Fruit a depresso-globose berry. 
— Erect shrubs, with alternate compound leaves and copious minute 
cymose flowers. Distrib. Tropics of Old World. Species 20. 
1. L. sambucina, Willd. ; EC. Prod. i. 635. A suberect shrub, 
glabrous in all its parts. Leaves ample, alternate, 3-5-partite, each 
