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VITIS 



VOUAPA 



heterophylla var. V. Voinieriana, Bait. Climbing, the tendrils 

 spiral, red-rusty: Ivs. persistent, coriaceous, long-stalked, digitate 

 with usually 5 elliptical coarsely dentate Ifts. which are glabrous 

 above and bright green: fls. in axillary short-peduncled cymes, 

 hermaphrodite; sepals 4, oval, shorter than the 4 oval-lanceolate 

 separate petals: carpels woolly, with a short 4-lobed style, the 2 

 carpels biovulate. Tonkin. R.H. 1902, pp. 56, 57. R.B. 28:3. 

 Genus doubtful. V. vomerensis, Hort., "observed in a Nice villa 

 garden:" robust, sts. brown-felted: Ivs. large and leathery, deeply 

 cut into fine lobes, brown-tomentose, deep olive-green at maturity. 



L. H. B. 



VITTADINIA (Dr. C. Vittadini, an Austrian who 

 wrote on fungi, 1826-1842). Compdsitse. Herbs with a 

 thick caudex, or branching subshrubs. 



Leaves alternate, entire or variously cut : heads rather 

 small, with a yellow disk and white or blue rays, 

 terminal, solitary or in loose leafy corymbs: involucre 

 of several rows: rays pistillate, numerous, crowded, in 

 more than one row: achenes narrow, compressed or flat, 

 with or without ribs on the faces; pappus of numerous, 

 often unequal capillary bristles. About 14 species, 

 natives of Austral., New Zeal., S. Amer., and Hawaiian 

 Isls. The genus is closely related to Erigeron, differing 

 in habit and in the appendages of the style-branches, 

 those of Erigeron being short, while those of Vittadinia 

 are awl-shaped. For V. triloba, Hort., not DC., see 

 Erigeron mucronatus. 



australis, A. Rich. (V. triloba, DC., not Hort.). 

 Herbaceous plant of uncertain duration, 1 ft. high or 

 less, tomentose: Ivs. obovate or spatulate to linear- 

 cuneate, entire or coarsely 3-toothed or lobed: heads 



3967. Vittaria filifolia. 



solitary: rays narrow: said to be revolute (which may 

 apply only to dried specimens). G.W. 11, p. 129. 

 Austral., Tasmania. There are botanical varieties. 



V. tricolor, Hort., is apparently V. australis, A. Rich. 



WILHELM MILLER. 



VITTARIA (Latin, a filet or headland or ? vitta, a 

 line). P&lypodiaceae. A genus of about 40 species of 

 tropical ferns mostly with narrow cord-like Ivs. grow- 

 ing pendent from trees: sporangia borne in 2 lines 

 along the margins. V. lineata, Swartz, OLD MAN'S 

 BEARD, is a tropical American species which is found as 

 far north as Cent. Fla., where it grows on the cabbage 

 palmetto. Rare in cult, and interesting only as an oddity. 

 V. filifdlia, Fee. Fig. 3967. A small species, 10-12 in., 

 which is representative in appearance and habit of 

 most of the species; sometimes found in choice collec- 

 tions. Trop. Amer. L _ M . UNDERWOOD. 



VOANDZEIA (from a. native name). Leguminosse. 

 One species, V. subterrdnea, Thouars, cult, widely by the 

 natives of Cent. Afr. for its underground peanut-like 

 seeds. It is a prostrate herb with a creeping pubescent 

 rhizome from which arise slender-stalked compound 

 Ivs. : Ifts. 3, oblong or lanceolate, 3 in. or less long, with 

 minute obtuse stipels: fls. yellow, % or J^in. long, 

 papilionaceous, 1-3 on flexuous peduncles; calyx very 

 small; standard obovate; wings equaling standard, 

 oblanceolate; keel boat-shaped, not beaked; stamens 

 diadelphous: fr. a tuber-like roundish pod, about ^in. 

 or more long, with 1 or 2 small seeds; the peduncle 

 elongates after flowering and the ovary is buried in the 

 earth, where the fr. ripens; seeds globose-ellipsoidal, 

 about %-%in. long, yellow-mottled. Until very 

 recently the plant has been unknown in a wild state, 

 but it has now been found natively in Nigeria and 

 German Adamaua (see Kew Bull. 1912, p. 213; and in 

 this article the plant is distinguished from Kerstingiella 

 geocarpa, page 1737, another underground legume widely 

 cult, in Trop. Afr.) . Voandzeia appears not to have been 

 intro. in this country. L, H. B. 



VOCHISIA (Vochy is the name of one of the species 

 in Guiana). Vochy siacese. Glabrous or tomentose 

 usually resinous trees, frequently tall shrubs, occa- 

 sionally grown in the warmhouse: Ivs. decussately 

 opposite or verticillate, usually leathery; stipules 

 small, subulate: fls. rather large, yellow, odorous, in 

 elongated composite racemes or panicles; pedicels 

 2-bracted; sepals 5, connate at base, lateral and anterior 

 very short, posterior largest, usually spurred; petals 

 1-3, linear or spatulate, anterior commonly larger 

 than the others; stamen 1, fertile; ovary 3-celled: caps, 

 leathery or woody, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 About 60 species, natives of Brazil, Guiana, E. Peru, 

 and Colombia. The spelling Vochysia is later. 



V. ferruginea, Mart. (V. tomentosa, DC.). Tree, 25 ft. or more 

 high: Ivs. oval-oblong, long-acuminate, attenuate at base, glabrous 

 above, ferrugineous-tomentose beneath: fls. in terminal racemes, 

 which are loose and slightly nodding. Guiana. V. guianensis, 

 Aubl. Tree, 12 ft. or more high: Ivs. obovate-oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, glabrous on both surfaces: fls. in simple racemes, which 

 are erect, terminal and dense-fid. ; spur spreading. Guiana. 



VOLKAMERIA: Clerodendron. 



VOLUTARELLA (diminutive of Volutaria). Syn., 

 Amberboa. Compdsitse. Erect or divaricately diffuse 

 villous or glabrous annual herbs, sparingly grown in 

 Calif.: Ivs. alternate, erose-dentate or remotely pinnati- 

 fid: heads heterogamous, outer fls. 1-row, neuter, disk-fls. 

 fertile; involucre ovoid or globose; bracts in many rows, 

 imbricate; corolla purplish, violet, or blue, regular tube 

 slender and very short, limb cylindrical, deeply 5-lobed: 

 achenes obovoid or oblong, prominently 10-15-ribbed. 

 About 7 species, Medit. region, W. Asia, and India. 

 This genus is treated as a part of Centaurea by Hoff- 

 mann in Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfamilien IV, pt. 5. 

 V. muricata, Benth. & Hook. f. (Amberboa muricata, 

 DC.). St. erect, 1-2 ft. high: basal Ivs. lanceolate, 

 attenuate to the petiole; cauline sessile, middle ones 

 auricled, upper and lowest not auricled, linear- or 

 oblong-lanceolate: fls. purple. Spain and Morocco. 



According to the Brussel's Congress, Amberboa is 

 placed in the list of "nomina conservanda," and if this 

 ruling is followed, the species above mentioned will 

 retake the name A. muricata, DC. 



VOUAPA (native name in Guiana). Leguminosse. 

 Unarmed trees, rarely cult.: Ivs. abruptly or some- 

 what pdd-pinnately-compound; Ifts. sometimes 1 or 

 few-paired, sometimes many-paired; stipules leafy or 

 inconspicuous: fls. yellow, red, or white, small or 

 medium-sized, in terminal and axillary simple racemes 

 or shortly fascicled-paniculate; calyx-tube bearing a 

 disk, short-turbinate, rarely narrow, segms. 4; petals, 

 uppermost clawed, 2-4, lower small, scale-like or none; 



