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itself to walls by means of suckered 

 tendrils, like V. mconstana. 

 CitltiLre <tc. as above. 

 V. reniformis violacea. — A distinct 

 Chinese Vine with long slender stems 

 and large roundish kidney-ahaped leaves 

 with crenulate margins, deep green above, 

 paler beneath and strongly veined, the 

 veins and stalks being clothed with cot- 

 tony hairs. The male and female flowers 

 are borne on separate plants, the male ones 

 being in small panicles on slender deep 

 red stallts. 



Culture dc. as above. 

 V. Romaneti. — A vigorous and distinct 

 Chinese species with large heart-shaped, 

 toothed leaves, the stalks of which, as 

 well as the branches, are covered with 

 stout hairs or bristles. The male and 

 female flowers are borne on separate plants 

 in compact clusters. 



Culture lie. as above. 

 V. serianiaefolia {Ampelopsis serlanice- 

 folia; A. tuherosa ; Cissua viticifoUa). — 

 A tuberous-rooted Japanese species, with 

 green palmately 3-5-parted leaves ; leaf- 

 lets obovate acute incised- toothed or some- 

 what lobed ; rachis articulately winged. 

 Culture dc. as above. 

 V. striata. — A beautiful evergreen 

 climber, native of S. Brazil and Uruguay, 

 with rather thick, digitate, dark-green 

 leaves; leaflets unstalked, oblanceolate, 

 serrate, wedge-shaped at the base. Fruit 

 reddish, about the size of small peas. It 

 is called the Ivy of Uruguay, where in the 

 woods it is one of the most beautiful 

 climbers, covering the bushes with red 

 berries in winter. 



Culture dc. as above. Although from 

 rather warm regions, this species is hardy 

 in warm sheltered places in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London. 



V. Thunbergi. — A vigorous grower 

 with large leaves 9 in. across, slightly 

 lobed and coarsely toothed, like those of 

 V. CoignebicE. covered with a rusty down 

 beneath. Stems and leaf stalks purplish. 



Culture dc. as above. 



V. vinifera (Common Grape Vine). — 

 This native of S. Europe is well knoviTi, 

 both as a hardy climber, and as the parent 

 of the varieties grown in hothouses for 

 their luscious fruits. Leaves lobed, sinu- 

 ately toothed, smooth or downj'. Fruit 

 purple, greenish- white or green, watery 

 or fleshy, sweet, musky or sour to the 

 taste. There are several distinct varieties, 

 among which may be mentioned pur- 

 purea, with purple foliage in autimm ; 

 laciniosa or apiifolia is the Parsley- 

 leaved Vine with leaves deeply cut into 

 several deeply lobed leaflets. The Miller's 

 Grape has small leaves covered with 

 white down, as if sUghtly dusted with 

 flour ; and the Teinturier Grape has 

 beautiful claret-coloured leaves in 

 autumn. Amurensis is a variety ivith 

 entire 3-5-lobed leaves, woolly on both 

 sides when young. 



Culture dc. as above. The cultivation 

 of the Grape Vine for fruit is dealt with at 

 p. 1097. 



V. vulpina (Southern Fox Grape; 

 Bullace ; Muscadine), — A distinct and 

 handsome N. American species, with 

 rounded, usually smooth and shiny green 

 leaves, coarsely toothed, rarely lobed, 2-3 

 in. across. Fruits purplish, without 

 bloom, musky flavoured, about | in. in 

 diameter, ripe early in autumn. The 

 bark of this species does not peel oflF like 

 others, and the branchlets are minutely 

 warty. 



Culture dc. as above. 



XXXV. SAPINDACEiE— Horse Chestnut Order 



A very large order (600 or 700 species) of trees, shrubs or undershrubs, rarely 

 herbs, with alternate or opposite, simple or compound leaves, often evergreen, 

 and regular or irregular, usually polygamous-diceoious flowers. Sepals 4-5, 

 very rarely none or more, free, or united, often unequal. Petals none, or 

 3-5, very rarely more, equal or unequal, the upper one sometimes smaller or 

 deficient. Stamens 8, rarely 5-10 (very rarely 2, 4, or 12 or more), very often 

 hypogynous and inserted in the disc. Fruit capsular, indehiscent, drupe-like, 

 berry-like, or leathery, entire or lobed, or composed of 2 or 3 samaras. 



KCELREUTERIA. — The characters K. panicitlata, which until recently was 

 of this genus are described below under the only species known. 



