deep green, shining; 

 under-face lighter 

 green, as if v a r - 

 nished; young leaves 

 rosy green. Bunch 

 small berries sub- 

 medium spherical, 

 black or deep grey, 

 taste clean and sweet. 

 Seeds (Fig. 46) 

 medium or large, 

 sub-spherical; beak 

 short and thick ; 

 chalaze sub-orbicu- 

 lar: r a p h e in the 

 shape of a very 

 prominent fine cord, 

 distinctly separated 

 from the chalaze. 

 Roots hard, long, 

 fairly slender. 



(b) Varieties, Adap- 

 tation and Culture. 



- Until compara- 

 tively recently only 

 a very few varieties 

 of V. Monticola were 

 known, or, on ac- 

 count of their feeble 

 normal vigour were 

 valueless for recon- 

 stitution. The recent 

 explorations made 

 by T. V. Munson in 

 the extreme north- 

 west of Texas en- 

 abled him to discover 

 very vigorous forms 

 in 1891, and more re- 

 cently in 1894, in a 

 new exploration he 

 accomplished with 

 Salomon, jun. The 



Fig. 44. Leaf of V. Monticola (upper-face), 



Fig- 45- Leaf of V. Monticola (under-face). 



