674 VITIS 



V. MONTICOLA, Buckley. MOUNTAIN GRAPE. 



A deciduous climber up to 30 ft. high, with slender, slightly downy 

 branchlets. Leaves 2 to 4 ins. across, about the same in length; heart- 

 shaped at the base, the sinus broad and rounded; sharply, sometimes slenderly 

 pointed, coarsely triangular-toothed, and slightly three-lobed ; of thinnish 

 texture, dark green above, greyish beneath, both surfaces shining; woolly 

 on the veins beneath when young; stalk about half the length of the blade. 

 Berries globose, in. wide, black and sweet. 



Native of Texas ; introduced in 1898. There is a thin diaphragm 

 interrupting the pith at the joints. V. CHAMPINII, Pianchon, is another 

 Texan species introduced at the same time, and allied to V. monticola, but 

 has larger fruits, also black. 



V. ORIENTALIS, Boissier. 

 (Ampelopsis orientalis, Pianchon ; Cissus orientalis, Lamarck*) 



A laxly bushy, or sometimes climbing, deciduous shrub, with smooth, 

 slightly ribbed shoots. Leaves variable ; often doubly trifoliolate (each 

 of the three chief divisions being subdivided into three leaflets), sometimes 

 simply pinnate, sometimes bipinnate. Leaflets ovate, diamond-shaped or 

 obovate, tapered at the base; i to 3 ins. long, to 2 ins. wide; the upper 

 part coarsely toothed; dark dull green and smooth above; paler, grey-green, 

 also smooth beneath, or with tiny tufts in the vein-axils. Flowers with 

 the parts in fours, produced on long-stalked cymes. Fruit roundish, top- 

 shaped, J in. diameter, red. 



Native of Asia Minor, Syria, etc., up to 5000 ft. on the mountains; 

 introduced in 1818. It is, no doubt, closely allied, and very similar to the 

 American V. arborea, but its foliage is coarser and not so distinctly bipinnate, 

 and it falls sooner in autumn. The leaves are usually composed of nine 

 leaflets (but sometimes eleven or fifteen), which are considerably larger on 

 the average, and appear to be never downy on the veins beneath, as are 

 frequently those of V. arborea. A handsome foliaged shrub, which fruited 

 with Canon Ellacombe at Bitton, near Bath. He compared them to 

 clusters of red currants. 



V. PAGNUCCI, Du Caillaud. 



A slender-stemmed climber; young shoots soon quite smooth. Leaves 

 i to 4 ins. long and wide, variable; sometimes composed of three distinct 

 leaflets, sometimes deeply three-lobed with a heart-shaped base, or with a 

 lobe on one side only. On the trifoliolate leaf the middle leaflet is stalked, 

 ovate or oval; the side leaflets obliquely ovate and stalkless. For the rest, 

 they are all rather coarsely and angularly toothed, the upper surface some- 

 what rough to the touch, the lower one downy on the midrib and veins; 

 stalks I to 2 ins. long, slightly hairy. 



Native of Central China; introduced to Kew in 1899, but it had previously 

 been cultivated in France. It is a vine of moderately vigorous growth, the 

 leaves turning a glorious blood-red in autumn. I have not seen it in flower 

 or fruit. 



V. PlASEZKlI, Maximowicz, is another vine from Central China, very 

 closely allied apparently to V. Pagnucci, and with similar foliage, but it 

 differs in having the young stems hairy and glandular-bristly. 



