Tas. 7497. 
ACTINIDIA POLYGAMA, 
Native of Japan, 
Nat. Ord. TernsTROEMIACE2%.—Tribe SAURAUVJER. 
Genus Actinipia, Lindl.; (Benth.“& Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 184.) 
Actinip1a polygama ; frutex gracilis, alte scandens, glaberrimus, foliis longe 
petiolatis late ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis v. acuminatis setuloso- 
serrulatis membranaceis undulatis basi obtusis rotundatis cordatisve, 
supra laete viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque costae 6-9, petiolis 
roseis, floribus subglobosis nutantibus in corymbos’ axillares breve 
pedunculatos subtrifloros dispositis, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis 
orbicularibus concavis albo-virescentibus, staminibus perplurimis, ovariv 
laberrimo, stylo brevi crasso, stigmatibus ad 20 lineari-clavatis radianti- 
us, bacca oblonga. - 
Actinipia polygama, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. vol. vi. (1847) 
p- 802, in nota. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Japon. vol. i. (1875) p. 59. 
Miquel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. (1867) p. 15. Lauche in 
Monatschr. Ver. Gartenb. Berl. vol. xxii. (187) iE 319, t. 4, fig. 3-8. 
Bolle in Deutsch. Garten (1881) p. 47, eum Ie. Ito, Koishik. Bot. Gard. 
vol. ii. t. 20. 
TrocHostiema polygamum & T.. repandum, Sieb. & Zuce. in Abhandl. Akad. 
Muench. vol, iii. pars. II. (1843), p. 728, t. II. fig. 2. 
A graceful copiously branched climber, the branches 
festooned with leaves of a delicate consistence, and bright 
pale green colour, thus forming a very ornamental conser- 
vatory plant; flourishing also under a verandah in many 
parts of England, and unprotected in the western 
counties. The genus to which it belongs is confined to 
the Eastern Himalaya, China and Japan, 12 species in 
all being enumerated, of which some may be synonyms, 
as A. arguta, Miq., which is, I suspect, referable to A. 
callosa, Lindl. The name polygama is inappropriate in so far 
as the Kew specimens are concerned, the flowers examined 
being all hermaphrodite. 
The specimen here figured was sent by the Rev. Canon 
Ellacombe, of Bitton, where it flowered in the open air in 
June, 1895. At Kewit hasthe protection of the ‘Temperate 
House, where it festoons one of the pillars for thirty feet, 
and flowers annually, 
OcToBER Ist, 1896, 
