166 Planta Lindheimeriane. 
no means well characterized by Mr. Scheele. According to 
Lindheimer it is called Mountain Grape, and covers large 
tracts of rocky soil. It does not climb, but the stems are 
upright, and only two or three feet high. The branches are 
small, and the berries, of the size of peas only, are black, 
very sweet, and the most grateful as well as the earliest 
ripened grape of Texas. Dr. Engelmann informs me that he 
met with the same species in Western Arkansas, growing in 
similar situations. Also that a specimen exists in Michaux’s 
Herbarium, on the same sheet with V. riparia. The leaves 
are somewhat glaucous, and in appearance between those of 
V. riparia and V. vulpina, but much smaller than in either. 
359. V. xstivatis, Michr. Fl. 9. p. 230: var. tomento 
albo, nec fulvo. Shady banks of streams, New Braunfels, 
&c.; flowering in May ; the fruit ripe in August. “ Climbing 
high trees. Berries of the size of peas, in large bunches, very 
black ; the taste vinous and pleasant. Flowers very odor- 
ous.” Lindh.— Under the name of “ V. candicans, (n. sp.,) 
Engelm. ined., I have from Lindheimer, as also from Mr. 
Wright, Texan specimens of what appears to be a variety of 
V. Californica, Benth., with the leaves somewhat less dentate 
and more densely tomentose underneath. 
t Viris (Cissus) cisa, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. 
p. 243. New Braunfels, climbing on Muskit trees. July- 
September. — Leaves thick and remarkably fleshy. 
+ V. vonpina, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, l. c. V. rotundi- 
folia, Miche. FI. 9. p. 231. New Braunfels. April. 
ACERACEJE. 
360. NEcuNDo AcEROrpEs, Mench.; foliis adultis molliter 
pubescentibus. New Braunfels; and banks of the Comale. 
March, in flower. August, in fruit. 
MALPIGHIACEJE. 
> 361. GareHpua LiNIFOLIA (Gray, Gen. lH. 9. p. 196. t. t 
173): humilis; caulibus gracilibus e basi pubescente herba- 
