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Vicia (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 157, the following should now be added: V. Denessiana (Dennes'). fl. varying in colour from pale brownish to violet-purple, lin. long; standard shorter than the wings, which are somewhat reflexed above the middle; racemes as long as the leaves, dense-flowered. May. l. sessile; leaflets sixteen to twenty-four, alternate and nearly opposite, oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, silky-pubescent beneath. Azores. Perennial. (B. M. 6967.) VITIS. To the species and varieties described on pp. 186-8, the following should now be added:

V. capensis (Cape). fl. tomentose, disposed in short cymes. fr. blackish-red, depressed-globose. l. reniform, obtuse-angled and sinuate-toothed. South Africa, 1887. Greenhouse trailer. (R. H. 1887, p. 372.) V. japonica crassifolia (thick-leaved). l. large, very thick, coriaceous, three-lobed, bright green above, cobwebby-tomentose beneath. 1886.