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Journal of Ayricultnrt, Victoria. [11 Dec, 1916. 



The following Ampelograpliical description is given : — 



Vine. — Of medium strength: main stem flattened and twisted; bark ash colour, 

 detaching in short strips. 



Buds. — Large, young leaves, five-lobed ; silky and ashy white; bordered and 

 spotted with rosy carmine above: under side cottony, white; teeth well marked, 

 deep carmine at the points. 





Canes. — Very long, round, of medium thickness, trailing, light -green, striated 

 with red on tlie side exposed to the sun, downy, brittle at the knots, internodes 

 long, 10 to 15 cm. (3.9 to .5.8 in.), knots medium; tendrils bi, or tri-furcate, 

 numerous, tinted with red, very long and slender. 



Leaves. — Large, thin, as broad as long, five-lobed; upper sinus little open and 

 shallow, often with a tooth at the base of the sinus; lower sinus also little open 

 and sometimes scarcely indicated: they also have, like the upper ones, a tooth 



