Tie Sie1. 
PARTHENOCISSUS ‘tricuspipara. 
Japan and China. 
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AMPELIDACEAE. 
PARTHENOCISSUS, Planch. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 1887, vol. v. p. 447.—Vitis, 
Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 387, partim; non Linn. 
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Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Planch. in DC. Monogr. -Phanerog. vol. v. 
p. 452; species cirrhis brevibus ramosis discigeris, foliis subtus fere 
glabris polymorphis nune parvis indivisis nune majoribus tricuspidatis 
rarius trifoliolatis plerumque grosse crenato-serratis insignis. 
Frutex scandens, ramosissimus, heterophyllus, muris arborumque cortice arcte 
adhaerens, cirrhis brevibus ramosis oppositifoliis apicibus in discos facie 
interiore viscosos expansis; ramuli longi, polyphylli, et breves diphylli 
foliis suboppositis. /olia basi cordata, 5-nervia, .grossiuscule crenato- 
serrata dentibus plerumque rotundatis mucronatis rarius acutis, supra 
nitida, glabra, subtus in nervis parce minute pilosa, ceterum glabra; folia 
superiora ramulorum longorum parva, cireumscriptione ovata, indivisa vel 
leviter tricuspidata tantum, inferiora et folia ramulorum brevium magna— 
ad 25 cm. usyue diametro, longe petiolata, cireumscriptione suborbicularia, 
| conspicue tricuspidata, rarius trifoliolata: in plautis juvenilibus folia 
majora plerumque trifoliolata; stipulae lanceolatae, membranaceae, 
s deciduae. Cymae plerumque e ramulis brevibus ortae, interdum singulae, 
axillares, versus basin ramulorum longorum dispositae; ramuli breves 
cirrho mon decidvo vel cyma aphylla terminati, nunc cymam in quaqne 
axilla gerentes, cyma inferiore aphylla, superiore foliata, nunc cymam in 
axilla inferiore et ramulum longum in axilla superiore, nune gemmam in 
axilla inferiore et cymam in axilla superiore gerentes; bracteae mem- 
branaceae; flores viriduli. Ca/yx cupularis fere truncatus. Petala 5, 
induplicato-valvata, apice uncato-inflexa, anthesi patentia marginibus — 
inflexis, ovato-oblonga, circiter 4 mm. longa. Stamina erecta, petalis 
ypposita ; antherae introrsae, dorso dl cove Oagea Diseus ovarii dimidio 
inferiore adnatus, 5-sulcatus, glandularis.  Ovarium 2-loculare; ovula — 
pro loculo 2, collateralia, erecta; stylus vix 1°5 mm. longus stigmate 
inconspicuo.  Bacca pruinosa, 1-2-sperma.—P. Veitchiit, Graebn. in 
Gartenfl. 1900, vol. xlix. p. 249. Ampelopsis tricuspidata, Sieb. et Zuce. 
Fl. Jap. 1846, p. 88. A. Roylei, Kirchn. Arb. Muse. 1864, p. 152. 
A. Veitchii, Hort. ex Gard, Chron. 1868, p. 814. A. japonica, Hort. ex 
Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1118. Cissws Thunbergii, Sieb. et Zuce. Fl. Jap. 
1816, p. 87. ©. Veitchii, Carriére in Rey. Hortic. 1877, p. 176. Vitis 
tnconstans, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-i’at. 1856, vol. i. p. 91. 
V, capreolata, K. Koch Dendrol. 1869, vol. i. p. 556; nee Don. V. Veitchii 
et V. tricuspidata, Lynch in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 1879, vo!. xvii. p. 308. 
V. japonica, Hort ex Nicho!s. Dict. Gard. 1884, vol. i. p. 66; nee Thunb. 
Quinuria trieuspidata, et Q. Veiterii, Koehne in Gartenfl. 1892, vol. xli. 
p. 403. /sedera tricuspidata, Rehder in Rhodora, 1908, vol. x. p. 29.— 
T. A. SPRAGUE. 
Decemeber, 1909. 
