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XLI. AMPELIDE^E. 
[Vitis. 
i or 2 in a cell. Berry i- to 6-celled. Seed often 
400 species, whole world. 
Climbers with tendrils; ovary cells 2-ovuled. 
Flowers spicate or cymose; rachis subteretc . 
Flowers on a broad red flattened rachis . 
Erect, bushy shrubs; ovary cells i-ovuled . 
rugose. About 
1. Vitis 
2. Pterisaxthes 
3. Leea 
1. VITIS, Linn. 
Climbing shrubs with tendrils. Leaves simple, trifoliate to 
9-foliate, rarely pinnate. Flowers in umbellate cymes, or racemes, 
or spikes. Calyx entire or 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 
4 or 5. Ovary 2- rarely 3- or 4-celled; ovules 2 in a cell; style 
short or 0. Berry ovoid or globose; cells x- or 2-seeded. About 
375 species, in tropics of Asia, Africa, Polynesia, rare in America. 
This genus is often broken up into 3 or 4, which I prefer to keep 
as sections merely, as do Hooker and King. 
i. Ampelocissus. Flowers 4- to 5-merous; disc annular adherent to 
base of ovary; style conic; stigma minute; inflorescence thyrsoid or a 
panicle or spike of spikes pendent and usually red-hairy. 
Inflorescence thyrsoid. 
Stems bristly hairy . . . • * l 1 ) 
Stems woolly tomentose .... (2) 
Inflorescence a panicle of very long racemes of 
flowers in clusters; leaves simple entirely 
glabrous . . • • 
Inflorescence a long raceme of short spikes. 
Leaves simple. 
Leaves 3 by 2 in. sparsely pubescent beneath (4) 
Leaves 2 to 4 in. long red floccose beneath. (5) 
Leaves 5 by 5'5 in., thickly red-tomentose 
beneath (some leaves trilobed) . 
Leaves 3- to 5-lobed always, densely red- 
hairy beneath; leaflets sub-coriaceous, 
very shortly petioluled 
Leaflets 4 or 5 red-tomentose beneath; 
petiolules 1 in. long .... 
Leaflets large long-petioluled, all glabrous . 
ii. Tetrastigma. Flowers 4-merous expanding, disc adherent to base of 
ovary; style very short; stigma large lobed; cymes axillary corymbose 
erect. Whole plant glabrous and usually very large, woody-stemmed. 
Leaves simple . . . . . . (10) V. Scortechinii 
Leaves trifoliate; corymbs lax. 
Leaflets broad ovate; corymbs large spreading; 
fruit small red ..... 
Corymbs slender much branched; flowers 
very small ..... 
Corymbs very short, few branched 2 in. or 
less across. 
Leaves stiff; cymes sub-sessile; fruit *5 in. 
through, yellow . . . . • ( I 3 ) V, Lawsoni 
Leaves thin; cymes slender peduncled, 
-few-branched under 1 in. across; fruit 
red -25 in. long.{14) V. Wrayi 
V. Martini 
V. Harmandi 
(3) V. macrostachya 
V. gracilis 
V. floecosa 
(6) V. cinnamomea 
(7) V. elegans 
( 8 ) 
( 9 ) 
V. eompositifolia 
V. polystachya 
(11) 
(12) 
V. peduncularis 
V. Curtisii 
