348 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



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Flowers fragrant. The berries are deep blue, of pleasant taste, 

 and ripen late in the season. 



Vitis Baudiniana, F. v. Mueller. (Cissus Antarctica, Ventenat.) 

 East Australia. With V. hypoglauca the most southern of 

 all Grapes, none extending to New Zealand. It is evergreen, 

 and a vigorous plant for bowers, but suffers even from slight 

 frosts. The berries are freely produced and edible, though 

 not large. 



Vitis cordifolia, Michaux.* (Vitis riparia, Michaux.) 



The Winter- Grape or Frost Grape. From Canada to Florida. 

 A deciduous Vine. The scent of the flowers reminds of 

 Reseda. The berries are small, either blackish or amber- 

 coloured, and very acid. They can be used for preserves, and 

 are only fully matured when touched by frosts. A succession 

 of seedlings may give us a superior and simultaneously a very 

 hardy Vine. 



Vitis hypoglauca, F. v. Mueller. 



East Australia, as far south as Gippsland. An evergreen 

 climber of enormous length, forming a very stout stem in 

 age. The black berries attain the size of small cherries. This 

 species also may perhaps be vastly changed in its fruit by 

 continued culture. 



Vitis Indica, Linne. 



On the mountains of various parts of India, ascending to an 

 altitude of 3,000 feet in Ceylon. The small berries are edible. 

 The plant should be subjected to horticultural experiments. 

 This is an apt opportunity to draw attention to the various 

 Indian species of Vitis with large edible berries for instance, 

 V. laevigata (Bl.), V. thyrsiflora (Miq.), V. mutabilis (BL), 

 V. Blumeana (Steud.), all from the mountains of Java, 

 and all producing berries as large as cherries, those of V. 

 Blumeana being particularly sweet. Further may here be 

 inserted V. imperialis (Miquel) from Borneo, V. auriculata 

 (Wallich) and V. elongata (Wallich), both the last from 

 the mountainous mainland of Coromandel, and all producing 

 very large juicy berries, even in the jungle wilderness. V. 

 quadrangularis (L.) stretches from Arabia to India and 

 Central Africa, and has also edible fruits. Many such plants 

 may be far more eligible for grape culture in hot wet climes 

 than the ordinary Vine. About 250 species of Vitis are 

 already known, mostly from intratropical latitudes, and mostly 



