LARDIZABALACEAE. — AKEBIA 347 
This is the common Holboellia of the thickets and margins of woods throughout 
western Hupeh occurring at higher elevations than H. coriacea Diels. From the 
evidence of abundant material before us and our knowledge of the wild plants we 
are unable to agree with Gagnepain (Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIV. 67) in 
referring this plant to H. latifolia Wallich or as a variety to that species. We have 
seen no specimen from central or western China referable to Holboellia angustifolia 
Wallich and apparently it does not occur there. The only specimens of H. lati- 
folia Wallich we have seen from China are Henry’s Nos. 10527, 10527, both col- 
lected near Mengtze in Yunnan. We suspect that the Holboellia latifolia of Fran- 
chet (Now. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, VIII. 194 (Pl. David. II. 11)); of Diels (Bot. 
Jahrb. XXIX. 343); of Pampanini (Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 273), and 
of Réaubourg (Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 452) belong to H. Fargesii Réaubourg. 
Holboellia Fargesii is an extremely variable plant, and Réaubourg's description 
refers to one form of the species and to a shoot bearing male flowers only. Hem- 
sley’s figure (l. c.) represents another form, and every gradation between these two 
extremes can be found. In the specimens before us the leaflets vary from 3 to 9 
in number, from 3.5 cm. to 12 cm. in length excluding the petiolule, and from 1 cm. 
to 4 cm. in width; the petioles from 2 cm. to 12 cm.; the peduncles with pedicels 
on male flowers from 2.cm. to 6 cm.; on the female flowers from 4 cm. to 15 cm. 
All these variations are to be found on the same individual and very often on the 
same shoot. The flower and its parts, however, are constant as described by 
Hemsley, except that the female flowers are almost invariably the larger. The fruit 
which has not been described is purple, oblong, 7-9 cm. long, rounded, tipped with 
a short point; the seeds somewhat verruculose, jet black, 4-5 mm. high, 5-8 mm. 
long. This species is undoubtedly closely related to H. angustifolia Wallich, which 
is readily distinguished by its relatively thin leaves with prominent reticulate 
venation, much shorter peduncles and pedicels, different shaped sepals and by a 
somewhat different floral structure. 
AKEBIA Decne. 
Akebia quinata Decaisne in Arch. Mus. Paris, I. 195, t. 13 a (1839); 
in Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 2, XII. 107 (1839). — Siebold, Fl. Jap. I. 145, 
t. 77 (1840?). — Lindley in Bot. Reg. XXXIII. t. 28 (1847). — De- 
eaisne in Rev. Hort. 1853, 141, t. — Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXXXI. t. 
4864 (1855). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 9 (Prol. Fl. Jap. 
197) (1867). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Fl. Jap. I. 21 (1875). — 
Hance in Jour. Bot. XVI. 8 (1878). — Moore in Jour. Bot. XVI. 137 
(1878). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, V. 177 (Pl. 
David. I. 25) (1882). — Lavallée, Icon. Arb. Segrez. 97, t. 27, 28 
(1882). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 30 (1886). — Sargent 
in Gard. & Forest, IV. 136, fig. 25 (1891). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 
XXIX. 344 (1900). — Gagnepain in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, 
XIV. 69 (1908). — Nakai in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXVI. Art. I. 
40 (Fl. Kor.) (1909). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 
XVII. 273 (1910). 
