618 Rhamnaceae; Vitaceae 



the margin from near the base; the petioles 2.5-6 cm. long, tomentella Makino Ke-kempo-nashi. Resembles the pre- 



glabrous; cymes terminal and in the upper axils, glabrous, ceding; leaves rather thick, broadly ovate to cordate-ovate, 



3-5 cm. across, many-flowered, the pedicels short, the branches with short, obtuse, pardy obsolete teeth, glabrous and be- 



thickened in fruit; flowers pale green, about 7 mm. across; coming dark reddish brown on upper side when dry, pale 



calyx-lobes about 2.5 mm. long, acute; disc sparsely pilose; green and with red-brown short hairs beneath, sometimes only 



fruit globose, about 7 mm. across, yellowish brown, glabrous, on the nerves; cymes and calyx-lobes densely reddish brown 



lustrous.— — June-July. Hokkaido (Okushiri Isl.), Honshu, pubescent; fruit densely reddish brown long-pubescent. 



Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea and China. June-July. Honshu, Shikoku. 



2. Hovenia tomentella (Makino) Nakai. H. dulcis var. 



Fam. 130. VITACEAE Budo Ka Grape Family 



Mostly woody vines with tendrils, rarely herbs or erect woody plants; leaves alternate, simple or palmately compound, stipu- 

 late; flowers bisexual or unisexual, actinomorphic, small, in cymes or panicles, usually opposite a leaf; calyx-lobes 4 or 5, rarely 

 3, 6, or 7, small or indistinct; petals as many as the sepals, valvate in bud; stamens opposite die petals; disc annular or lobed; 

 ovary superior, 2(-6)-locular, the ovules 2 or 1 in each locule; style single, simple, or absent, the stigma capitate, peltate, or 



lobed; fruit a berry; seeds with endosperm and a small embryo, the cotyledons flat. About 10 genera, with about 500 species, 



especially abundant in the Tropics. 



lA. Petals connate at apex and not expanding, falling as a calyptra at anthesis; inflorescence a panicle; leaves usually simple; bark vifithout 



lenticels, soon longitudinally fissured, the pith brown 1. Vitis 



IB. Petals free and expanded at anthesis; inflorescence usually a cyme; bark lenticellate, not fissured, the pith white. 

 2A. Flowers 5-merous; inflorescence opposite a leaf; leaves simple or rarely compound. 



3A. Tendrils twining, without adhesive holdfasts; disc of the flowers cup-shaped, not adnate to the ovary 2. Ampelopsis 



3B. Tendrils with adhesive holdfasts; disc adnate to the ovary 3. Panhenocissus 



2B. Flowers 4-merous; inflorescence axillary; leaves palmate or digitate 4. Cayratia 



1. VITIS L. Budo Zoku 



Deciduous, rarely evergreen, tendril-bearing vines; leaves usually simple and lobed, rarely palmately compound, dentate; 

 flowers bisexual and stamina te, 5-merous, in panicles; calyx-lobes small or obscure; petals connate at apex, deciduous as a whole 

 at anthesis; disc of 5 nectary glands; ovary 2-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule; style pyramidal, short; fruit a berry, the seeds 



2-4, usually pyriform, abruptly rostrate at base, 2-grooved on the ventral side. About 60 species, in temperate regions 



of the N. Hemisphere. 



I A. Leaves deeply cordate at base; inflorescence relatively large, 10-25 cm. long. 

 2A. Leaves 10-25 cm. wide; petioles 5-25 cm. long; branches rather thick. 



3 A. Branches with spreading spiny protuberances 1 . V. \iusiana 



3B. Branches smooth. 



4A. Leaves 8-30 cm. long and as wide, reddish brown lanate beneath 2. V. coignetiae 



4B. Leaves 7-15 cm. long and as wide, thinly brownish lanate beneath 3. V. amurensis 



2B. Leaves 4-8 cm. wide, densely reddish brown lanate beneath; petioles 3-6 cm. long; branches rather slender 4. F. thunbergii 



IB. Leaves truncate to shallowly cordate at base with a wide open sinus; inflorescence relatively small, 4—12 cm. long. 



5A. Leaves distinctly 3-lobed, densely reddish brown lanate beneath, acute to obtuse, cordate at base 4. V. thunbergii 



5B. Leaves undivided or obsoletely 3-lobed, at least the upper ones deltoid, acuminate, truncate to shallowly open-cordate at base. 



6A. Leaves rather thick, the teeth undulate and short 5. V. saccharifera 



6B. Leaves thin, teeth deltoid 6. V. flexuosa 



1. Vitis kiusiana Momiyama. Kumagawa-budo. cordate-orbicular and somewhat 5-angled, 8-30 cm. long and 

 Branches thick, terete, yellowish brown lanate when young, as wide, deeply cordate to slightly open-cordate at base, with 

 with small blackish spreading spinelike protuberances; leaves depressed-deltoid, mucronate teeth, shallowly 3-lobed, the 

 chartaceous, undulate-serrulate, sparsely yellowish brown median lobe depressed-deltoid, acute to subacute, more or less 

 arachnoid at first and soon glabrous on upper side, densely sparingly arachnoid when young, densely reddish brown 

 brown-lanate beneath, the lower oblong-ovate or narrowly lanate beneath; inflorescence to 20 cm. long, including the 3-6 

 ovate, slightiy 3-lobed or angled, sometimes 5-angled-ovate, to cm. long peduncle, about 8 cm. wide, with tendrils; fruit 

 17 cm. long, 13 cm. wide, acute to acuminate, open-cordate globose, about 8 mm. across, purplish black when mature; 



at base, the petioles 9-13 cm. long, the upper leaves acute to seeds about 5 mm. long, broadly obovate, dark brown. 



subobtuse, with shorter petioles about 5 cm. long; staminate May-June. Thickets in mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shi- 

 panicles longer than the leaves, narrow, to 25 cm. long, in- koku; common. Korea and Sakhalin. 



eluding the 6 cm. long peduncle, to 7 cm. across, with a tendril Var. glabrescens Nakai. V. \aempferi var. glabi-escens 



on the peduncle. July. Kyushu (Higo Prov.) ; rare. (Nakai) Nakai; V. coignetiae iormii glabrescens (Nakai) Na- 



2. Vitis coignetiae PuUiat. V. labrusca var. typica a- kai Takeshima-yama-budo. Leaves sparsely lanate, be- 



grandifolia Regel; V. kaempferi sensu Rehd., non K. Koch; coming green beneath. Hokkaido. Korea. 



V. amurensis var. coignetiae (Pulliat) Nakai Yama-budo. 3. Vitus amurensis Rupr. var. shiragae (Makino) Ohwi. 



Branches terete, smooth, brown-araneous while young; leaves V. shiragae Makino Shiraga-budo. More slender than 



