that we have growing close by this variety at Kew, and which 

 differs both in appearance and in the scarcely-lobed leaves. 

 By these authors V. heterophylla comprises an entire-leaved 

 variety (a) and a cut-leaved variety (/3), to the former of which 

 Bunge's humulifolia is referred by them ; our own specimens, 

 however, of Bunge's plant, received from himself, have 

 deeply lobed leaves, exactly as in our figure. Bunge, indeed, 

 describes his humulifolia as having the lower leaves lobed 

 and the upper entire, but in our live plant the lobed foliage 

 is pretty constant throughout, whilst the leaves of our living- 

 Japanese specimens of V. heterophylla are uniformly entire, 

 or only obscurely lobed throughout. 



J)esck. A nearly glabrous, climbing, slender vine. Stems 

 two to five feet long ; branches glabrous or pilose, red, nearly 

 terete. Leaves on slender red petioles, three- to five-lobed, 

 with a broad open sinus at the base ; lobes acutely serrate, 

 middle lobe contracted at the base, dark green and rather 

 rugose above, pale beneath, with pubescent veins. Tendril* 

 bifid. Cymes on slender peduncles, sparingly divided ; branch- 

 lets divaricate. Flowers subumbellate, minute, green. Petals 

 five, free. Stamens on the margin of a rather membranous 

 annular disk surrounding the ovary. Berries globular, of a 

 fine pale china-blue colour, dotted with black. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Expanded flower : — magnified. 



