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PALIBIN Oonspeet. Fl. Kor$ne T. p. 21 ; MATSUM:. et MAYATA Einim. PI. 

 Formos. p. 17. 



Piaifama liexaplnjVa THUMB. Fl. Jap. p. 149. 



HAB. Hokkokei. 



DISTRIB. Japan, ( Vrea and Hongkong. 



2. Akebia DECNE. 



Akebia longeracemosa MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XTIT. p. 18 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAY ATA Einnn. PI. Formos. p. 17 t. *2. Shrub scaudeut. Leaves 

 ever-green, long petiolate, digitately 5-foliolate, leaflets petiolnlate, oblong, 

 obtuse at l)otli ends, or obovate-oblong, cuneate, emarginate and mucronate 

 at the apex, glabrous. Flowers monoecious, long pedunculate. Fl. numerous, 

 25-30, arranged on a long raceme ; pedicels very slender, spreading, nearly 

 5 mm. long, bracts paleaceous, linear. Sepals 3, reflexed, ell iptico -oblong, 

 somewhat obtuse, 3mm. long, 2mm. broad, glabrous. Fl. : few-flowered, 

 40 mm. in diameter, long pedicellate 45-50 mm. long ; sepals 3, black when 

 dried, 18-20 mm. long, 8-12 mm. broad. Racemes G5-70 mm. long, 8 mm. 

 broad. Carpels fi; ovary linear, 5mm. long; staminodes very small; 

 stamens 3 mm. long. 



HAB. Taichii : Daibohozan. 



I^ISTRIB. An endemic plant. 



Akebia *p- HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 4(i. 

 HAB. Morrison. 



Near A. longemcemosa MATST T ^., but differs from it in having trifoliolate 

 leaves. 



3. J$cr?teHs LTNX. 

 D'ichotomous Key to the Formosan Species. 



Leaves pinnate TJerltens nepalensis. 



Leaves simple 



Fruits black Herberts Kawdkamii. 



limits red . fiertoi'is morrisonensis. 



