Tap 8537; 
AMPELOPSIS MEGALOPHYLLA. 
China. 
AMPELIDACEAE, 
Amprtopsis, Michx; Planch. in DC. Monogr. vol. v. p. 453; Gilg in Engl. & 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. pars 5, p. 449. 
Ampelopsis megalophylla, Diels & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 466; 
Gagnepatn in Sargent, P/. Wilson, vol. 1. p. 101; species A. leevidi, Planch., 
affinis sed f liis inferioribus bi-tripinnatis foliolis magis serratis nervis 
mayis conspicuis differt. 
Fruiex scandens, glaber, cirrhifer cirrhis oppositifoliis ramosis. Folia super ora 
simpliciter pinnata, inferiora bipinnata vel subtripinnata; petiolus 
rhachisque purpurei; foliola plus minusve _petiol \Jata, terminale longe 
petiolulatum, ovata vel lanceolata, usjue ad 13 em. longa, 7 cm. lata, a'i e 
acute acuminata, basi inaequilateralia margine inferiore rotundato, infima 
basi subcordata, gro-se serrata, supra viridia subtus glauca, axillis 
nervorum venularumque majorum minute pilosis. Cymae oppositifoliae, 
multiflorae; rhachis minute pilosa. Flores virides. C/yx amplus, 
membranacens, lobis rotundatis. /’etala patula, triangulari-ovata, acuta, 
marginibus papillosis. S‘amina oppositipetala ; antherae cordatae, apice 
leviter retusae. Discus intrastaminalis, e’evatus, quinquelobatus lobis 
staminibus altcrnantibus, Ovarivm biloculare; ovula pro loculo 2, erecta ; 
stylus consp cuus, apice truncatns, stigmate. terminali concavo. Baceue 
primum rubro-purpureae, demum nigrescentes, at 1 em..diametro.— Vitis 
megaphylla, Hort. ex Gard. Chron, 1908. vol. xxxiv. p. 150; J. H. Veitch in 
Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. pp. 60, 395, ft. 16, 97.—T. A. SPRAGUE. 
The handsome Vine here figured was first cultivated in 
the garden of Mr. M. L. de Vilmorin at Les Barres, where 
it was raised from seed received by him from China in 1894, 
and where it flowered three years later. From Les Barres 
it was sent to Kew in 1907 under the name A. cantoniensis, 
Planch., a name which belongs, however, to another species 
which is not hardy in England. A. megalophylla is a native 
of Hupeh and Szechuan, and according to Dr. Schneider it 
also extends to Shensi. In 1901 it was introduced to 
European gardens a second time by Mr. E. H. Wilson on 
behalf of Messrs. Veitch & Sons. In some respects this 
is the most remarkable of all hardy vines, for though there 
are other species with pinnate and bipinnate leaves, recalling 
those of the genus Leea, there are none whose leaves are so 
Fesroary, 1914. 
