VITIS CARTBARA 
VY. caribaea Strong high vine, leaves orbicular-ovate, cordate or truncate 
at base, apex short, not lobed, becoming dull above, rusty-tomentose underneath; 
fruit very small. Tropical America, doubtfully in the United States. 
—— Hortus Second, 1941 

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Vitis caribaea > De. Prodr. Ly Ps 634. 
Synonyms; Numerous (see Ampelidese, Planchon, p. 281) 
Plant: *"Attains great size, climbing high, lives to a great age® (Dr. D. 
Morris, Director Botanical Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica). 
Rootes: Not examined. 
Wood: Annual, thick,angled and irregularly striated with a few shallow 
striee; growingtips not leafy and densely rusty tomentose; color dark chestaut, 
set with rusty wooly tomentum, becoming floccose, and with short, stiff pubescence 
near the nodes; outer bark separating in thin fibrous plates, and shedding second 
year, true bark in old vines checking fine, slowly shedding by small bits, per- 
sistent, much resembling ¥. cinerea, in body of vine, wood dense, tough, fibrous; 
section2:1 view of annual wood, rays numerous, thin, pores large sbundant; nodes 
but little enlarged, slightly bent; diaphraga very thick, buds globose or sub- 
conical with rusty wool at the summit; tendrils once or twice forked, long stri- 
ated, rusty-wooly when young, very strong; internodes medium to long, 4" to 5% 
or mores pith nearly twice the thickness of the wood, firm, insensibly passing 
into the diaphragm. 
Leaves: Stipules minute, rusty-wooly; petiole about 4 the length of midrib, 
slender, rusty-tomentose or pubescent, narrowly grooved above, attached to blade 
at obtuse angle; blade in length about the same as in width or slightly more, 
averaging 4" to 5"; shape orbicular, cordate or truncate at base, plane; basal 
sinus shallow, broadly inverted V shaped or wanting, shoulda sHoPt-acute or 
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wanting; apex, short, Slender, acute; margin entire, smooth; teeth merg mucrons 
near together, with slight scallop between; venation from 6 or more, commonly 7 
pairs of prominent, little ructy ribs, each of which ends direetl in 2 mucron 
nerves between the ribs also prominent; upper surface when young covered with cobs 
webby hairs which become flocose and disappear at maturity, leaving a dull green 
finely wrinkled eurface in which the ribs are sunken; lower surface covered with 
thin layer of pale rusty felt-like tomentum, more rusty elong the ribs; textures 
rather leathery. 



Cluster: Fertile,- very large comp | , 
iler to V. Cinerea of Florida, but with shorter, more slender pedicels; peduncle 
i - its branches 
edium, covered with dull rusty tomentum, rachis thinly rusty-wooly, 
ea their short subdivisions densely rusty-wooly;pedicels many, about 1/8" long, 
slender, smooth at flowering seasons sterile,- not seen by writer, described by 
DeCandolle as exceeding the leaves in length, which would require a very large 
cluster. ) 

