Vitis.] XXXIX. AMPELIDE^. 27& 



Leaflets large, broadly ovate or cordate, membranous. Cymes loose, 

 divaricate. 

 Leaves glabrous, or nearly so. Flowers fully 1 line diameter, on stout 



pedicels 7. V. saponaria. 



Leaves hairy on both sides. Flowers about J line diameter, on filiform 



pedicels s. V. acris. 



Leaflets mostly under 2in., rather thick or almost fleshy, coarsely toothed. 



Cymes loose, divaricate 9. K. trifolia. 



Leaflets cordate, the apex often with long narrow points, the rounded 

 basal lobes often overlapping the petiolule, over 3in. long ; young stems, 



petioles, and main nerves bristly 10. V. strigosa. 



Leaflets 5 to 9, pedate. 

 Leaflets lanceolate, sharply toothed. Petioles and peduncles often long 



and slender 11. V.japonica. 



Leaflets small, ovate, acuminate, deeply toothed. Disk very prominent 12. V. cleinatidea. 

 Leaflets 2 to Sin. long, oblong or cuneate, minutely and remotely serrate 



or entire. Disk inconspicuous .... . ... ... 13. F. acetosa. 



Leaflets 3, rarely 5, digitate. 

 Leaflets obtuse at the base, on a distinct slender petiolule, coriaceous, and 



very reticulate ... 14. 7. hypoglauca. 



Leaflets narrowed into a very short petiolule or sessile. 



Leaflets very coriaceous. Berries ovoid . .... .... J.5. V. sterculifoUa. 



Tendrils few or none. Leaflets obovate, reticulation prominent. 



Peduncles 2in. long ... ... 16. T. penninervis . 



Leaflets membranous. Berries globular. Leaflets linear-cuneate to 



oblong or obovate. Cymes loose . . 17. V.-opaca. 



Not a climber. Stems prickly, erect ; from a rootstook . ... 18. K. Gardiiieri. 



1. V. antarctica (most southern), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 447. Young shoots 

 more or less clothed with short rust-coloured hairs, rarely entirely glabrous. 

 Leaves simple, petiolate, ovate or oblong, mostly acuminate and slightly cordate, 

 3 to 4in. long and 1^ to 2in. broad, entire, sinuate or irregularly toothed, rather 

 firm or almost coriaceous, penniveined and obscurely 3-nerved, with glands on the 

 under side in the axils of some of the principal veins. Cymes dense, broadly 

 corymbose, shorter than the petioles. Flowers tomentose-pubescent, the buds 

 nearly globular, under 1 line diameter. Petals 4, separately deciduous. Disk 

 prominent, undulate, obscurely 4-lobed. Style shortly conical. Berry globular. — 

 Cisms antarctica, Vent, Choix, t. 21 ; DC. Prod. ii. 629 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2488 ; C. 

 glandulosa, Poir. Diet. Suppl. i. 105. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, and other parts of southern and northern Queensland. 

 The specific name, although inappropriate, is too generally sanctioned by use to be altered. — 

 Benth. 

 Wood dark-brown, coarse-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 85. 

 The fungus Phyllosticta neurospilea, Saco. and Berk., sometimes attacks the leaves. 



2. v. Oblonga (oblong), Betith. Fl. Austr. i. 447. A small bushy tree 

 (according to Henne's notes, but E. Brown's specimens have tendrils), quite 

 glabrous or the young shoots minutely rusty-tomentose, the branches rigid and 

 flexuose. Leaves petiolate, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, IJ to 

 2Jin. loHg, quite entire, firm but thinner than in C. antarctica, very finely penni- 

 veined and obscurely 3-nerved, with 2 large glands underneath in the axils of the 

 lateral nerves. Cymes bearing small umbels of thinly velvety flowers. Calyx 

 truncate, scarcely i line high. Fruiting cymes on short peduncles, bearing few 

 obovoid berries. 



Hab.: North-east scrubs. 



On some cymes of this species and also V. antarctica the berries are replaced by a monstrous 

 growth of diohotomous branches covered with small, broad, leafy scales, forming dense globular 

 tufts of 3 or 4in. diameter, like those often observed on some Mcesas.— Benth. 



3. V. cordata (cordate). Wall. Catal. n. 6008 (partly) ; Benth. Fl. AuHr. i. 

 447 (in part). Very glabrous and often somewhat glaucous in all its parts, the 

 young stems succulent and disarticulating in the dried specimens. Leaves on 



