the material for our plate bears functionally male flowers, 
This latter plant was obtained in 1905° from Messrs. 
J. Veitch & Sons, and now grows as a climber in the 
Himalayan house, the stems being some twenty feet long. 
Under the conditions thus provided it thrives luxuriantly 
and makes strong yearly shoots some six feet in length. 
These shoots are cut back to spurs on which flowers subse- 
quently develop in May. There being but one plant in the 
collection it has not yet been possible to test its hardiness, 
The leaves: are larger and more decorative than in any 
other cultivated Actinidia. According to Wilson, by whom 
it was introduced on behalf of Messrs. Veitch, A. chinensis 
bears an edible fruit with green, subacid, palatable pulp, in 
flavour resembling the gooseberry. ‘The fruits vary both 
in size and in hairiness, 
Descripriox.—Shrub, climbing; young twigs hispid, 
adult twigs glabrescent. Leaves long-petioled, dimorphic ; 
those of the sterile twigs rather large, wide ovate or 
elliptic, shortly acuminate or cuspidate ; those of the floral 
twigs suborbicular, shortly cuspidate and rounded or retuse, 
more or less cordate at the base, 2}-5 in. long, margin 
finely toothed, each tooth with an excurrent veinlet ; 
pst above, especially on the nerves; softly pubescent 
neath with raised nerves; petiole 14-24 in. long, densely 
hirsute. Cymes springing from the axils of fallen leaves, 
tew-flowered ; pedicels about 2 in. long. hirsute. Flowers 
1-sexual, orange-yellow, 13-2 in. wide. Male: Sepals ovate- 
oblong, brown-tomentose externally. Petals very wide 
obovate, shortly clawed. Stamens very numerous; fila- 
ments filiform; anthers sagittate. udimentary ovary 
densely woolly, many-celled, cells 20-25, minute, styles as 
many as the cells, linear. Fvmale (only seen in bud): 
Staminodes very numerous. Ovary subglobose, tomentose, 
up to 30-celled; styles reeurved in bud, . Fruit ellipsoid, 
tomentose, about 13 in, long, persistent calyx reflexed. 
Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, t'z-1'p in. long, foveolate-reticulate. 
_ Fig. 1, calyx and barren pistil; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, section of barren’ 
Ovary :—all enlaryed, 
