Tas. 4864. 
AKEBIA aquinara. 
Five-leaved Akebia. 
Nat. Ord. LarpizaABALACEZ.—Mone@cia HEXANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Masc. Calyx 3-phyllus, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis concavis sub- 
zequalibus, in eestivatione subvalvatis. Petala 0. Stamina 6, biserialia, sube- 
qualia, libera ; filamentis cylindraceis primo erectis dein incurvatis ; antheris mu- 
ticis. Ovariorum radimenta 6. Fam. Calyx foliolis subrotundis concavis. 
Stamina 6-9, nana, abortiva. Ovaria 3-9, tunc ordine ternario disposita, dis- 
tineta, oblongo-cylindracea, in stylum brevem stigmate peltato terminatum at- 
tenuata, ovulis parieti foveolato v. papilloso affixis, primo orthotropis serins 
anatropis ?—Frutices Japonici scandentes, foliis peltatim digitatis, 3-5 foliolatis, 
foliolis apiculatis integerrimis v. repando-dentatis, sublobatisve. Racemi aaillares, 
pedunculis axdrogynis, ima basi squamatis, paucifloris ; floribus femineis infertori- 
bus longius pedicellatis. Decaisne. 
AKEBIA guinata; foliolis ternis sepius quinis ovatis vel obovatis integris ob- 
tusis v. emarginatis mucronato-setaceis. Dene. 
AKEBIA quinata. Decaisne, Mém. sur les Lardizab. p. 195. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
1847, ¢. 28. 
RasANIA quinata. Thunb. Jap. p. 148. 
Our only wild specimens of this plant were collected by For- 
tune in China, and are the A. 31 of his Herbarium: it appears 
however to be a native of Japan, and is well figured and de- 
scribed in the ‘ Flora Japonica’ of Siebold and Zuccarini. ‘The 
plants represented, and which flowered at Kew, were received 
from Mr. Lowe, of Clapton Nursery, and were originally intro- 
duced into Europe by Siebold. : 
Descr. A slender, scandent, evergreen shrub, with terete, flex- 
uose stems, everywhere quite glabrous. eaves alternate, on 
slender petioles, usually quinate ; leaflets articulate with the pe-— 
tiole, petiolulate, obovate, emarginate, or obcordate, quite entire, 
coriaceous, glaucous beneath. Racemes axillary and from re- 
duced lateral branches, peduncled, their branches with minute 
bractew at the axils, often corymbose. Fowers pedicelled, unl- 
sexual, slightly fragrant. The males smaller, terminal on the 
AUGUST Ist, 1855, 
