VITIS BLANCOIT 

Synonyms: 
¥. Caribaea, Herverd Herbarium, Dr. E. Palmer, 1886. 
Vine: Vigorous, climbing very high, foliage presenting a pale grayish 
green aspect, in dense canopy on small trees. 
Roots: Wiry, penetrating very deeply. 
Wood: Growing tips extending rapidly beyond the slowly enlarging leaves, 
densely whitish, or pale rusty wooly, which wool persists during the first year; 
st first, wood is slightly angled,but becomes smooth cylindrical with maturity, 
pale dull green at first, very dark, reddish brown at maturity; outer bark sheds 
the second year slowly in nerrow fibrous plates, leaving the true bark rough 
pale brown, which with age becomes finely divided lengthwise, as in V. cinerea, 
butof « darker colorj wood rather soft, tough and uncommonly flexible; iater- 
nodes 3" to 6" or more long in well grown canes, pith light brown, somewhat 
greater in diameter than the thickness of mature annusl wood from pith outward, 
expanding and abruptly terminating above, but gradually below the diaphragm, 
which is about 1/16" thick, cross section of wood very sorous; nodes little 
enlarged, or bent, stipular ridge not very prominent, and extending about half 
way around to base of tendril, then curving downward; tendrils 2" to 5" to fork, 
mostly bifid, white tomentose, very strong; buds small, at first subglobose, 
becoming at full maturity slightly triangular, but remaining blunt «2+ apex, 
covered with dark brown scales, and rusty wooly at summit, iniunfolding whitish or 
pale pink, tip closed. 
Leaves: Stipules very small, rusty shee d- petiole 1" to 2" long, cylindrical, 
with distinct narrow groove Qiong upper side, of uniform thickness the entire 
length, densely whitish wooly;blade long-cordate, entire, rhen fully grown 3* to 
4" wide, with midrib 4" to 5® long; basal sinus inverted U or cupid's bow shaped 
(which is quite different from other species of this series, except sometimes the 
inverted 0 shape ig found in ¥. Berlandiari margin marely goranlg edie or 
harry ; she e distinct 






of i oe alternate ribs very qober-potnteds ceeeired above re thin pipes 
wool, and below by dense whitish, or ash-colored felts; Hoper face et full matari 
besring flocculent cotton along the ribs, giving foliage grayish aspect, elsewhere 
being a dark dull green with little or no wrinkling. 
Cluster: Fertile, of medium size, 3" to 5" long; simple, with a shoulder 
or but little compounded, pedicels 2/16" to 3/16" long, slender, scatteringly 
warty, slightly enlarged at apex; staminate,- cluster somewhat larger. 
parts. 
Flowers: sucll and slender in all its 

Berries: Snall }* to 1/3" in diameter, spherical, black, with thin bloom 
when en ripe; skin thin, tough, not pungent, pulp juicy, pure sweet, vinous. 


