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Aborescent; leaves long-petiolate, with generally 5 leaflets; stipules hairy, foliaceous, spathulate- 
ovate, very fugaceous ; leaflets on conspicuous radiating stalks , chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, ovate or 
lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, entire or towards the apex acutely toothed, closely net-veined, paler or glaucous 
beneath ; tendrils long, simple or bifid; peduncles bearing a double glabrous panicle with opposite branclilets ; 
pedicels stout, short, umbellate; bracteoles very minute and fugacious ; flowers hermaphrodite with 4 petals 
and stamens 5 calyx hardly repand, much shorter than the corolla; petals yellow , semilanceolate, longer than 
the stamens, free; anthers nearly ovate, as long as the filaments; style short, conical; stigma very minute, 
undivided; berry bluish-black, spherical, rather large; seeds subovate, gradually and slightly attenuated at 
the base. 
On the banks of forest streams and rivulets in eastern Gipps Land; for instance, towards the mouth of 
the Snowy River, on the Broadribb and Cabbagetree River, thus advancing the limits of Ampelideas to almost 
38° S. L. Thence along the eastern tracts of Australia inland as far as New England and northward as far 
as Moreton Bay. 
One of the most robust of all species of vines, attaining when fully developed a height of 40 feet, with 
a stem stout in proportion. Branches valid, climbing and winding. Branclilets as well as the petioles 
cylindrical, covered more or less densely with brown appressed hair, sometimes, however, with the exception 
of their apex, perfectly glabrous. Stipules several lines long, visible only in the innovations. Tendrils 
opposite to the leaves, often several inches long. Primary petioles 1 to 2 inches long; secondary ones 
generally 5, sometimes 3, 4, 6 or 7, free; the lateral ones longer than the two lower ones and shorter than 
the terminal one, which measures frequently about 1 inch. Leaflets always of firm consistence, flat, with a 
strong midrib and many divergent lateral nerves, generally between 2 and 4 inches long and 1-1 \ inch 
broad, above shining and, at least in age, glabrous, beneath always paler and either light-green or glaucous 
or ashy-grey, at the midrib and nerves often brown-hairy, otherwise glabrous or nearly so, never declining 
into their stalk. Primary peduncles opposite to the leaves, 1-1 \ inches long, bearing two secondary flower- 
stalks, each of which is yielding a many-flowered amply-expanding panicle. Bracts and bracteoles very 
caducous, spathulate or subovate, ciliated in front; the former about 1 line, the latter about \ line long. 
Pedicels 1-2 lines long or finally somewhat longer, articulated at the base. Flower-buds ovate-globose. 
Calyx bluntly and faintly four-lobed in age. Petals hardly longer than 1 line, acute at the apex, truncate at 
the base. Disk annular, entire. Filaments capillary, glabrous, |-| line long. Anthers yellow, affixed near 
the base, almost erect, measuring about J line. Pollen-grains smooth, ellipsoid, longitudinally fissured. Style 
about h line long, subulate- or pyramidal-conical. Stigma blunt. Berry glabrous, two-celled or by evanescence 
of the septum one-celled, about J inch long, of acid pleasant taste. Seeds 2-3 lines long, in a fresh state 
brown; convex on both sides if only one in the whole berry matures; plane-convex if one in each cell is 
produced, the flat side then facing the septum; trigonous if two in each cell arrive at maturity, then convex 
at the back and flat as well towards the septum as on their commissural face. Albumen generally channelled 
with three irregular longitudinal furrows, besides transversely wrinkled. 
This species, which was simultaneously described by Prof. Asa Gray, of Boston, and in the Melbourne 
Phil. Transactions, has its nearest relation in Vitis sterculifolia, discovered by Dr. Beckler on the Hastings 
River. The latter plant, of which the flowers are not yet known, may be recognized by leaflets of equal color 
on both pages, tapering into a short petiolule, being less closely veined, and producing callous elevations on 
the underside at the junctions of the lateral nerves with the midrib; the berries, moreover, are much larger 
and the seeds twice as long as those of Vitis hypoglauca. 
Supplemental Plate X. 1, flower in bud; 2, flower expanded; 3, calyx, stamen and pistil; 4, 
petal; 5, back view of anther; 6, front view of anther; 7, dry pollen-grains; 8, moist pollen-grains; 9, 10, 
berry; 11, longitudinal section of the fruit; 12-16, transverse section of the fruit; 17, seed, natural size; 
18, side view of seed; 19, back view of seed; 20, longitudinal section of seed; 21, transverse section of seed: 
all figures , with the exception of 17, in a higher or lesser degree magnified . 
