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beneath, and the peduncles, tomentose. (Dec. Prod., i. p.634.) Flowers 
small and white. Berries small, brownish green, watery and acid, but 
eatable. This plant produces a great quantity of clusters of small black 
grapes, of an austere taste; but they would, doubtless, make a good red wine. 
When it grows luxuriantly, as it generally does on the higher woody lands 
of Jamaica, it is so full of juice, that a piece of a shoot, about 3 ft. long, 
will yield near a pint of clear tasteless water, which has saved the lives of 
many persons who have wandered long in the woods without any other 
refreshment of aliquid sort. For this reason, the plant is called, in Jamaica, 
water withe. According to Sloane, the fruit is red or deep purple, the 
size of currants, and agreeably acid, as well as astringent. (Don’s Mill., i. 
p- 711.) Introduced in 1800, but seldom to be met with. Not in the 
London Horticultural Society’s Garden, nor in the collection of Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
App.i. Other hardy or half-hardy Species of Vitis. 
Dr. Wallich has enumerated upwards of fifty species of 
Vitis, natives of India. Of these V. Wadillichi Dec., a native 
of Nepal, was introduced in 1822, and treated as a stove 
climber ; but it will probably be found half-hardy. V. gla- 
brdta Roth is a native of the East Indies, introduced 
in 1819. It resembles in foliage V. vulpina, and is con- 
sidered half-hardy. V. éndica L. (fig. 145.) was introduced 
in 1692, and is generally treated as a stove climber ; but, 
being deciduous, ff its wood could be ripened in sufficient 
time, it might stand our winters against a conservative 
wall. The same may be said of V. ce‘sta Hort. Trans., a 
native of Sierra Leone, introduced in 1822. There are 
numerous other Indian and some Japan species, which re- 
main to be introduced. There are also some species natives 
of South America, described by Humboldt, of which very 
little is known; but four of them, which are described in 
Don’s Miller, are considered to be hardy. 
Of North American species and varieties no fewer than 
130 have been described by Professor Rafinesque in his Me- 
dical Flora, already quoted, and in his Monograph of Ame- 
rican Vines. (See Gard. M -, VOl, viii. p. 248.) 
Genus II. 
A 
AMPELO?PSIS Michr. Tue Ampetopsis. Lin. Syst. Pentandria 
Monogynia, ~ 
Identification. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 159.; Dec Prod., 1. p. 632.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 694. 
nt ral Vitis sp., and Cissus sp. 
erivation, Ampelos, a vine, and opsis, resemblance ; similarity in the habits of the species, 
Gen. Char., §c. Calyx almost entire. Petals 5, falling off separately. Stigma 
capitate. Ovary not immersed in a disk, including 2—4 ovules. (Kunth, 
Nov. Gen. Am., 5. p. 222., quoted in Dec. Prod., i. p. 632.)—A genus in- 
termediate between Cissus and Vitis. (Dec. Prod., i. p.632.) The species 
are found in North America, in the north of Africa, in China, and in the 
Himalaya. They are all climbing shrubs, mostly deciduous, of the easiest 
peperension and culture: some of them, as the A. hederacea, are very orna- 
mental. 
& 1. A.corpa'ra Michr. The cordate-leaved Ampelopsis. 
Identification. Michx. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 159.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 633.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 694. 
Synonymes. Cissus Ampelépsis Pers. Syn., 1. p. 142.; Vitis indivisa Willd. Baum., 538. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves heart-shaped, acute, toothed, indistinctly 3-lobed ; 
the nerves villous beneath. Racemes doubly bifid. (Dec. Prod., i. p. 633.) 
Found in North America, from Pennsylvania to Carolina, among hedges, 
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