TaB. 7485. 
AKEBIA tosata. 
Native of China and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. BerperipEx.—Tribe LARDIZABALER. 
Genus Axesia, Dene.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 42.) 
Axess lobata; frutex alte scandens glaberrimus, ramulis cylindraceis lenti- 
cellatis cortice brunneo, foliis gracile petiolatis 3-foliolatis racemisque 
gemmis lateralibus enatis, foliolis gracile petiolulatis late ovatis obtusis 
repando-lobulatis apice retusis apiculatis pallide viridibus, racemis 
gracilibus nutantibus pendulisve; fl. masc. parvis numerosis confertis 
pallide purpureis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis subulatis, sepalis ovatis, 
antheris subsessilibus loculis linearibus extrorsis, connectivo crasso; fi. 
fem. paucis multo majoribus longe pedicellatis, sepalis concavis coriaceis 
purpureis, staminodiis 6 minutis, carpellis 3—6-viridibus, stigmatibus 
purpureis, baccis oblongi obtusis polyspermis, seminibus atris pulpa aquosa 
immersis. - 
A. lobata, Dene. in Ann. Se, Nat. Ser. II. vol. xii. (1839) p. 107; & in. Archiv. 
Mus. Par. vol. i. p. 195, t. 13, B. Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 99. Sieb. §& Zuce. 
Fil. Jap. vol. i. p. 145, t. 78. Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 197. Franch. 
& Sav. Fnum. Pl. Jap.i. p. 21. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. 
vol. xxiii. (1886) p. 30. Tokio Hort, Bot, vol. ii. t. 2. 
One species of Akebia, A. quinata (Tab. 4864) has 
been long known in European gardens, having been intro- 
duced from China or Japan (of both which countries it is 
a native) half a century ago; but though three other 
species from the same country have been described, it is 
only quite lately that a second, the subject of the accom- 
panying plate, has beenimported. This latter differs a good 
deal in habit from A. quinata, in having more woody 
branches, and trifoliolate leaves with broad lobulate very 
pale green more membranous leaflets, the flowers too are 
smaller, though of the same structure and colour; and, 
as in A. quinata, the females are fewest, much the largest, 
and placed below the males in the raceme. : 
A. lobata ig a native of Japan and N. China, and is 
apparently common in both countries; in the former 
specimens have been collected in various localities between 
Hakodadi and Yokohama; and in the latter from the pro- 
vinces of Kiang-su, Szechuen, and Hupeh. Of two other 
JULY Ist, 1896, 
