Vitis 
Veitchii 
S6 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
AMPELIDEAS. 
VITIS (AMPELOPSIS) VEITCHII. 
A native of Japan, introduced by Messrs. Veitch. 
Very similar in general appearance, and in its 
manner of climbing, to the Virginia creeper ; 
but easily distinguished by its leaves. These 
instead of being regularly and uniformly digitate, 
with five perfectly distinct leaflets, are variable : 
sometimes simple, though more or less lobed; 
sometimes digitate, but in this case, of not more 
than three leaflets. 
The leaves though not evergreen, are of a 
thicker substance, and a firmer and more 
coriaceous texture, than in the Virginian Creeper ; 
their upper surface very smooth and glossy, of a 
rich deep green colour in summer; the under side 
much paler but likewise smooth. The simple (not 
digitate) leaves are broad, deeply heart shaped, 
three-lobed, with three strong ribs parting from 
the base and running straight to the points of the 
lobes; these lobes broad and shallow, pointed, 
coarsely and rather irregularly toothed. On the 
whole these lobes are not unlike in form to those 
of Acer rubrum. 
(October, 1879). I find that the leaves which 
appear simple are not strictly so, in fact, being 
articulated with the top of the leaf stalk, and 
separating from it when they fall. 
The autumnal colouring of this plant, when it is 
trained against a wall in a good sunny exposure, 
