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Akebia Decne. 



1. Leaves 5-foliolate 2 



Leaves 3-foliolate 4 



2. Male flowers numerous (25-30) in a raceme ; inflorescence very 



elongate ; sepals (of male flowers) 3 mm. long 



A. longeracemosa Matsum. 



Male flowers rather few (3-5) in a short raceme ; sepals (of 



male flowers) 4-5 mm. long 3 



3. Leaflets entire on the margin, subequal in size but not very 



variable A. quinata Decne. 



Leaflets often undulate or undulate-dentate on the margin, very 

 variable in size A. lobata Decne. var. pentajihylla'M.&k. 



4. Leaflets ovate or oval, entire or loosely dentate on the margin 



A. lobata Decne. 

 Terminal leaflets lanceolate, obtuse at the tips, truncate at 

 the base ; lateral ones slightly smaller than the terminal 

 ones, entire on the margin (also on the margin of the 

 terminal ones), petiolules shorter than those of the terminal 

 ones A. sp. Hayat. 



A. lobata Decne. Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. iii. p. 128. 



Syn. A. clematifolia S. et Z. ; A. quercifolia S. et Z. 



Hab. Yezo ; Nippon ; Kiusiu. 



Var. pentaphylla Mak. in Bot. Mag. Tokyo. 



Hab. Nippon ; Shikoku. 



A. longeracemosa Matsum. Matsum. et Hayat., Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 17; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. iii. 127. 



Hab. Formosa. 



A. quinata Decne. Palibin, I. c. p. 21 ; Nakai, I. c. p. 40 ; 

 Matsum. 1. c. p. 127. 



Hab. Nippon ; Kiusiu. 



A. sp. Hayat. Flor. Mont. Formos. p. 40. 



Hab. Formosa. 



BYNCHOSPOBA FUSCA R. & S. IN BRITAIN. 



By Arthur Bennett, A.L.S. 



The distribution of Bynchospora fusca in the British Isles is 

 peculiar and difficult to account for. In Scotland, in the west, it 

 occurs in Inverness (Watson's Westerness), but geographically 

 also in Argyll ; i. e. on boggy sides of a lagoon on Loch Sheil near 

 the mouth of the River Pollock ; also on the sides of two small 

 lochs (alt. 180 ft.) near Salen, but in different watersheds; on 

 Kentra Moss, Ardnamurchan, in great abundance over an extent of 

 about three miles by a mile and a half. Over all it extends about 

 nine miles by two miles. It can be easily recognized a hundred 

 yards away by the dense brownish-yellow patches (S. M. Macvicar, 

 in Utt.). This is the extreme north of Argyll, in about 56° 46' N. 

 lat. Mr. C. E. Salmon found it in another station, "By Lochan 



