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Panicles raceme-like. 



Never very tall, often maritime ; vestiture often brownish, 

 dense ; leaves from ovate to orbicular ; calyx rather large, 

 with persistent lobes ; fruitlets at least half-enclosed, 

 opening by a large membranous deciduous lid. 



F. racemosa. 



VINIFERAE. 



VXTZS. 



1189. Leaves simple. 



Evergreen, finally tall ; young branchlets and inflorescence 

 much beset with soft brown hairlets ; leaves from almost 

 ovate to nearly cordate, pointed, conspicuously denticu- 

 lated except towards the base ; cymes of umbels or 

 fascicles opposite to leaves ; petals four, disconnected ; 

 berries globular, black outside. V. Baudiniana. 



Leaves compound. 



Evergreen, finally almost arborescent ; young branchlets 

 beset with brown hairlets ; leaflets usually five, on 

 separate stalklets, firm, glabrous, from almost lanceolar 

 to nearly ovate, always pointed, hardly denticulated, 

 greyish-pale beneath, their ultimate venules closely 

 reticulated ; tendrils simple or double ; cymes of umbels 

 or fascicles ample, opposite to leaves ; petals four, 

 yellowish, disconnected ; berries rather large, globular, 

 bluish-black outside. "Native Grape." 



V. hypoglauca. 



X.OUDONXA. 



1190. Petals normally two. 



Slender, glabrous, the whole plant assuming often a 

 yellowish or somewhat bluish tinge ; leaves rather small, 

 mostly distant ; flowers in panicles ; calyx expanded into 

 two longitudinal membranes ; petals yellow ; stamens 

 usually four ; styles generally two ; fruit biangular or 

 rarely triangular, the membranous edges conspicuous. 



Ii. Behrii. 



1191. All leaves entire" ............... 1192 



Submerged leaves capillary-pinnatisected ... ... 1194 



