GRAPE FAMILY 



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Seeds 1 in each cell, with smooth bony testa. [Name in honor of Adolphe Brongniart, a 

 French botanist and monographer of the Rliamnaceae.] 



A genus of 2 species, natives of Mexico and the arid southwestern United States. Type species, Adolphia 

 infesta (H.B.K.) Meisn. 



1. Adolphia californica S. Wats. California Adolphia. Fig. 3156. 



Adolphia californica S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 11: 126. 1876. 



Shrub about 1 m. high, intricately branched, the branches becoming stiff and divaricate, short- 

 pubescent with spreading hairs, green and striate, the uhimate spinescent. Leaves oblong- 

 oblanceolate to obovate, 5-15 mm. long, obtuse or acutish, tapering at base to a short petiole, 

 entire, puberulent ; flowers solitary or few in the axils, short-pedicellate ; calyx pubescent, 

 greenish white ; petals white, about 2 mm. long, slightly surpassing the calyx-lobes ; capsule 

 4-6 mm. broad. 



Dry hillsides or washes. Lower Sonoran Zone; San Diego County, California, to northern Lower California. 

 Type locality: Soledad, San Diego County, California. March-April. 



Family 91. VITACEAE. 



Grape Family. 



Climbing or erect shrubs, with nodose joints, alternate petioled leaves, and small 

 flowers in panicles, racemes or cymes. Calyx entire or 4-5-toothed. Petals 4—5, 

 separate or coherent, valvate. Stamens 4—5, opposite the petals ; filaments subulate, 

 inserted at the base of the disk or between its lobes ; anthers 2-celled. Disk some- 

 times obsolete or wanting. Ovary 1, generally immersed in the disk, 2-6-celled ; 

 ovules 1-2 in each cell, ascending, anatropous. Fruit a 1-6-celled, commonly 2-celled 

 berry. Seed with bony testa and cartilaginous endosperm ; embryo short. 



About 10 genera and 500 species, widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions. 



1. VITIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 202. 1753. 



Climbing or trailing woody vines, mostly with tendrils. Leaves simple, usually pal- 

 mately lobed or dentate. Stipules generally small, caducous. Flowers dioecious, polygamo- 

 dioecious, or rarely perfect. Calyx minute, the limb entire. Petals hypogynous or perigy- 

 nous, coherent in a cap and deciduous without expanding. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 3-4- 

 celled ; style very short, conic ; ovules 2 in each cell. Berry globose or ovoid, pulpy. [The 

 ancient Latin name.] 



A genus of about 50 species inhabiting temperate and subtropical regions of the northern hemisphere. Type 

 species, Vitis vinifera L. 



Fruit purple, densely covered with a glaucous bloom; young leaves and shoots clothed with a white arachnoid 

 pubescence. 1. V- californica. 



Fruit black, scarcely or not at all glaucous; leaves usually permanently tomentose beneath. 2. V. Girdiana. 



3156 

 3156. Adolphia californica 



3157 



3157. Vitis californica 





3158. Vitis Girdiana 



