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AKEBIA guinata. 
Five-leaved Akebia. 
MON(ECIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LARDIZABALACEX. (LARDIZABALADS, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 303.) 
AKEBIA, Decaisne.—Masc. Calyx 3-phyllus, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis 
concavis subzequalibus, in æstivatione subvalvatis. Petala 0. Stamina 6 
biserialia subzequalia libera, filamentis cylindraceis primo erectis dein incur- 
vatis ; antheris muticis. Ovariorum rudimenta 6.—Fanm. Calyx foliolis sub- 
rotundis concavis. Stamina 6-9, nana, abortiva. Ovaria 3-9, tunc ordine 
ternario disposita, distincta, oblongo-cylindracea, in stylum brevem stigmate 
peltato terminatum attenuata, ovulis parieti foveolato v. papilloso affixis, primo 
orthotropis seriüs anatropis ? Frutices Japonici scandentes, foliis peltatim 
digitatis, 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis apiculatis integerrimis v. repando-dentatis sub- 
lobatisve. Racemi azil/ares, pedunculis androgynis imá basi squamatis, pau- 
cifloris ; floribus foemineis inferioribus longius pedicellatis, roseis.—Decaisne 
Memoire sur les Lardizabalées, p. 195. 
A. quinata ; foliolis ternis v. sæpius quinis ovatis v. obovatis integris obtusis 
v. emarginatis mucronato-setaceis.— Decaisne, l. c. 
Rajania quinata, Thunb. fl. jap. p. 148. 
According to M. Decaisne one of the species of this 
genus is commonly cultivated in the gardens of Japan, where 
it is called Fagi- Kadsura- Akebi, whence its scientific name 
has been dérived. Professor Zuccarini has stated this to be 
the very Japanese plant described by Thunberg, and we pre- 
sume that he is right, although it does not quite agree with 
the published descriptions of the plant, and comes from a 
much more southern latitude. 
Mr. Fortune, who sent it home, and from one of whose 
plants our drawing was made last March in the garden of the 
Horticultural Society, informs us that it is one of the wild 
plants of Chusan. “I found it growing on the lower sides 
of the hills, in hedges, where it was climbing on other trees 
and hanging down in graceful festoons from the ends of their 
branches. The colour of its flowers in China is of a dark 
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