. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. tuff, under thename of Persian Seeds, are exported to Europe. * * * Thornless shriibs with deciduous leaves, and clustered flowers. 5. R, Liibaiiotica, Boiss. 5 Tiffdhh-larri. 2 to 3, procumbentat base. Leaves rounded at base, ehort-petioled, ovate or oblong, den-ticulate, yellowish puberulent on both sides, veins pinnate, 12-15 on aside. Drupe black, as large as a currant — Summer — Alpine Lebanonand Antilebanon to Amanus and northward. Order XXXI. AMPELIDE^. (Vine Fam
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. tuff, under thename of Persian Seeds, are exported to Europe. * * * Thornless shriibs with deciduous leaves, and clustered flowers. 5. R, Liibaiiotica, Boiss. 5 Tiffdhh-larri. 2 to 3, procumbentat base. Leaves rounded at base, ehort-petioled, ovate or oblong, den-ticulate, yellowish puberulent on both sides, veins pinnate, 12-15 on aside. Drupe black, as large as a currant — Summer — Alpine Lebanonand Antilebanon to Amanus and northward. Order XXXI. AMPELIDE^. (Vine Family). Shrubs^ with watery juice^ usually cliinMng hy tendrilsywith small, regular, hermaphrodite or dioecious flowers, aminute truncated ^-Moothed calyx, lined hy a sometimesurn-shaped dish, 4-5 petals inserted on outer margin ofdish, vah)ate^ alternate with calyx-teeth, and stamens as AMPELIDEJa. (vine FAMILY.) 203 many as the petals, opposite to them. Berry 2-4 celled —Ovary free, with 1-2 anatropous erect ovules in each of the2-4 cells. Style 1; stigma capitate. Seeds erect, albuminous,with bony testa. Fig. (a) Branch of the common Vine, Vitis vinifera, showing leavesand tendrils. (&) A flower, showing the obsoletely crenate-margin-ed calyx, the petals, united at tip, and falling from disk, (e) Aflower after the falling of the corolla, showing the crenate lobes ofthe disk between the stamens, and the ovary within, VITIS, L. Vine. Karmah. ^Arish. Calyx entire or obsoletely toothed. Petals free and soon deciduous,often coherent at apex, and fallmg together. Berry sometimes by abor-tion l-celled, 1-seeded, usually 2-4-seeded. * Petals adherent at apex. Tendril hearers. 1. V. vinifera, L. 5 Common Grape-Vine. Karmah, ^ round-heart-shaped, 5-lobed, coarsely toothed. Flowerspanicled ; petals 5, obovate, much longer than the obsoletely toothedcalyx — Summer — Cultivated everywhere in numerous varieties, butno where strictly spontaneous. Its home is between
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