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Leaves simple. 

 Flowers 4-uierous. 



An erect shrub ; tendrils 1 . V. Woodrowii. 



Scandeiit shrubs ; tendrils leaf-opposed. 

 Leaves quite glabrous. 



Stems terete or obscurely angled. 

 Leaves pale green. 



Stems woody below 2. V. pallida. 



Stems weak, trailing 3. V. repeals. 



Leaves blotched with white above, bright red 



beneath 4. V. discolor. 



Stems and branches acutely angled or winged 5. V. quadrangularis. 



Leaves pubescent or tomentose beneath. 

 Leaves ovate. 



Leaves subtomentose beneath ; flowers green ... 6. V. gigantea. 

 Leaves when young densely tomentose beneath; 



flowers pink 7. V. repanda. 



Leaves with orange-red pubescence- beneath ; 



flowers greenish-yellow 8. V. adnata. 



Leaves 3-5-lobed, grey tomentose beneath 9. V. LAnnwi. 



Plowers o-merous ; peduncles oirrhiferous. 



Leaves 3-5-lobed, floecose on both sides ; flowers scarlet. 10. V. tomentosa. 

 Leaves ovate, glabrous above ; flowers greenish-purple. IL V. indica. 

 Leaves 3-7-lobed, at length glabrous ; flowers reddish- 

 brown 12. V. latifolia. 



Leaves 3-foliolate (sometimes simple in V. Eheedei). 

 Plowers 4-merou8. 



Leaflets sessile or subsessile. 



Berry black, smooth, l-seeded ; leaflets subsessile ... 13. V. Bheedei. 

 Berry scarlet, hispid, l-seeded ; leaflets quite sessile . 14. V. setosa. 

 Leaflets stalked. 



Berry black, smooth, 2-4 -seeded 15. V. trifolia. 



Berry j'ellow, afterwards turning red, smooth, 



l-seeded 16. V. canarensis. 



Flowers 5-merou8 17. V. arancosa. 



Leaves digitate, usually 5-foliolate ; flowers 4-merous. 



Stipules small, cordate ; berry black 18. V. elongata. 



Stipules large, ear-shaped ; berry red 19. V. auriculata. 



Leaves usually pedate (sometimes 3-foliolate in V. lanceo- 

 laria). 

 Flowers bisexual. 



Leaves 5-7-foliolate ; stems glabrous 20. V. tenu{f(jlia. 



Leaves 7-1 1-1'oliolate ; stems pubescent or hairy 21. V. pedata. 



Flowers dioecious 22. V. la.nceolaria. 



1. Vitis "Woodrowii, Slapf, MS. An erect shrub 5-6 ft. high; 

 trunk 3-4 in. thick at the base ; bark rough, grey ; lower branches 

 2-3 ft. long, annual, ecirrhose, slightly tomentose at the apex. Leaves 

 up to 9 in. long and broatl, pale green, cordate-ovate or cordate-rotund 

 (with a broad sinii.'*), usually shortly (rarely obscurely) 3-lobed, acute or 

 acuminate, repand-crennte (the crenatures recurved), at first sparingly 

 tomentose, at length glabrate, rather firni, pahni-nerved ; petioles nearly 

 equalling the blade, more or less tomentose when young; stipules 

 triangular-ovate, reddish, caducous. I'lovvers tetramerous, in compound 

 umbels; peduncles 1 in. or afterwards 2 in. long; primary rays usually 

 4, about |-| in. long at time of flowering, afterwards up to Ig in. long; 

 pedicels at time of flowering -^ in., afterwards h in. long, thick, straight. 

 Calyx saucer-shaped : limb membranous, truncate or very obscurely 

 lobed. Petals 4, calyptrately deciduous, hooded and thickened at the 

 apex. Disk 4-lobcd. JStyle short, stout, conical. Berry obovoid-globose, 



