Japanese species, A. quercifolia, and clematifolia, Sieb. & 
Zuce., Count Ito has made a note in the Kew Herbarium, 
that they may be only varieties of A. lobata. 
The drawing here reproduced was made from a plant 
that flowered in a greenhouse of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
in January of the present year, and which was received 
from Mr. F. Takagi, nurseryman of Tokio. The fruit is 
described from the Japanese work cited above, which con- 
tains an excellent figure of the species. 
Descr.—A tall glabrous climbing shrub; branches 
cylindric, woody, flexuous, as thick as a goose-quill, bark 
brown, covered with scattered lenticels ; buds at the rather 
distant internodes, covered with oblong obtuse green and 
purple herbaceous deciduous scales, and sending forth 
leaves and flowers from an arrested axis. Leaves long- 
petioled, trifoliolate, three to five inches long ; petiole two 
to three inches long, very slender; leaflets petiolulate, 
petiolule of lateral one-eighth to one-half inch, of terminal 
nearly one inch; blade one to two inches long, broadly 
ovate, repand-lobulate, tip retuse and apiculate, almost 
membranous, pale green above, paler and bluer green 
beneath ; nerves few, very slender. Raceme with its long 
peduncle three to four inches long, slender, nodding or 
pendulous. Male fl. very numerous, one-sixth inch 
diameter, shortly pedicelled, crowded, pale purple; bracts 
minute. Sepals ovate, acute, incurved. Anthers 6, sub- 
sessile, cells linear, extrorse ; Jem. fl. few, below the males, 
distant from one another, one half to nearly an inch in 
diameter, pedicels half to two-thirds of an inch. Sepals 
orbicular-ovate, concave, dark vinous purple. Staminodes 
6, minute, of imperfect anthers alternating with the carpels. 
Carpels three to six, green with purple stigmas. Fruit 
ripens after frost, three inches long, oblong, cylindric, 
slightly curved, rounded at both ends; pericarp thin. 
are a or many, black, immersed in a white pulp.— 
Fig. 1, Male flower; 2, thre isti ; 
prea These phe stamens and pistillode; 3, stamen; 4, carpels 
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