upper surface when young covered with cobwebby hairs which become floccose and disappear at 

 maturity, leaving a dull green finely wrinkled surface in which the ribs are sunken ; lower surface 

 covered with thin layer of pale rusty felt-like tomentum, more rusty along the ribs; texture 

 rather leathery. 



Cluster: Fertile, very large compound, generally lax in appearance, similar to V. cinerea, 

 of Florida, but with shorter, more slender pedicels; peduncle medium, covered with dull rusty 

 tomentum, rachis thinly rusty woolly, its branches and their short subdivisions densely rusty woolly; 

 pedicels many, about 1/8' long, slender, smooth at flowering season; sterile, not seen by writer, 

 described by DeCandolle as exceeding the leaves in length, which would require a very large cluster. 



Flowers: Fertile, minute, stamens erect or horizontal, nearly as long as the pedicels, disc 

 large; ovary minute, globose-conical; style short. 



Berries: Described by D.C. as very small, globular, and glabrous. This description suits 

 well the berries received from Jamaica and Honduras, Central America. 



Seeds: 2 to 3, very small, ovoid, subcordate, chestnut color, beak short, raphe filiform, 

 chalaza obovate or orbicular, in center of back of seed (B.C.), MacFadeyn Fl. Ham., p. 181. 

 Those obtained by me from Jamaica and Honduras agree with this description. 



Viticultural Observations and Remarks 



So far, except where noted otherwise, this description is made from specimens of leaves, 

 branches old and young wood, and fertile flower cluster in bloom, collected for me near Kingston, 

 Jamaica, by Dr. D. Morris, Director of the Botanical Gardens at that time, and others collected 

 in Honduras by Mr. A. Bauer. These specimens bear every evidence of being the typical 

 V. Caribcea of DeCandolle. After the most diligent inquiry for this form in various parts of Florida 

 and other Southern States and securing specimens of the vine which Prof. A. H. Curtiss has taken 

 to be V . Carib(ea (sent me by him for examination) , I am unable to discover the slightest traces 

 of this species in the United States. Prof. Curtiss' vine seems to be a hybrid between V. Simpsoni 

 and V. cinerea (?). It is said to produce a medium sized fruit of fine quality, while V. Caribcea 

 is small and acid. I place this species here as it is so nearly allied to V. cinerea and is found well- 

 distributed according to Planchon along the coast of Mexico, Central America and among 

 the West Indies, but not in the United States, as classified by Dr. Engelmann, from Prof. Curtiss' 

 Indian River (Fla.) specimens; nor according to Durand's Report of finding it in Arkansas, 

 which Prof. A. Millardet speaks of with doubt in his work upon American vines. 



I find in my Arkansas specimens of V. cinerea forms approaching V. cinerea, var. Floridana, 

 and further eastward the change becomes very marked, and finally the Florida variety prevails, 

 which latter Mr. J. H. Simpson, botanist of Manatee, Florida, took for a time to be V. Caribcea; 

 but upon receiving and comparing the true V. Caribcea sent me by Dr. Morris from Jamaica and 

 sharing the specimens with Mr. Simpson, he at once agreed with me that what he had found and 

 sent to me as V. Caribcea was distinct and he is now positive that in many years residence in 

 Florida he has never seen the true V. Caribcea (as described by MacFadeyn and illustrated by 

 Dr. Morris' specimens) in Florida. 



Certainly the species offers nothing interesting or valuable to viticulturists in the United 

 States. 



12a. VITIS CINEREA, Engelmann, in Bushberg Cat. 1883, p. 16, No. 8. 



12b. VITIS CINEREA, variety, Floridana, Munson. (See Plates XXI and XXII.) 



Synonyms: V. cestivalis, var., Gray, PI. Lindh., p. 166. 



V. cestivalis, var. canescens, Engelm. Am. Nat. 2, p. 321. 



"Ashy Grape," "Sweet Winter Grape." 



Plant: Climbing very high, attaining great size, slender, non-tapering, the slowly expanding 

 leaves on terminals of growing shoots make them appear almost leafless, the latter extending 

 very rapidly and to great length. 



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