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Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, April 17, 1879), Ozi {R. Yatahe and Z. 

 Blatsumicra ! herb. ibid. May 4, 1879), Shimura T. Blakino ! 1901) ; Prov. 

 Shinano : Mt. Togaknshi {K. Yatahe and Z. Matsumura ! herb. ibid. July 

 11, 1884) Prov. IsuiKARi in Hokkaido : Tsukisappu, Sapporo {K. Miyahe ! 

 herb. ibid. June 9, 1884); Prov. Tosa : Sakawa {T. Maldno\), Mt. Sasaga- 

 mine {T. Maldno ! May 3, 1893). 



Akebia pentaphylla Makino nom. nov. = A. lohata x quinata. 



A glabrous deciduous climbing shrub. Stem dextrorse, slender, terete, 

 finely striate when dried, woody, brown, di&parsed with minute lenticels, 

 remotely with reduced branches ; bud-scales imbricated, ovate or ovato- 

 orbicular, deciduous. Leaves remotely alternate, but those of reduced 

 lateral branches 3-5-fasciculate, long petioled, 5-3-foliolate ; leaflets un- 

 equal in size, petiolulate, oblong to orbicular-ovate, emarginate and minutely 

 setaceo-apiculate, obtuse to truncato-subcordate or sometimes acute and 

 broadly cuneate at the base, entire or pauci-repand-crenate, chartaceous, 

 green and more or less shining above, paler peneath, sub-5-nerved, l^i- 

 8^ cm. long, |-7^ cm. broad ; veins very loose, veinlets reticulated ; petiole 

 strict, enlarged and usually curved at the base, 2-11.1 cm. long; petiolules 

 -|-3| cm. long. Eaceme 9-13 cm. long, cernuous or pendulous, axillary on 

 reduced lateral branches, glabrous, with a slender peduncle, 2-3 cm, in 

 diameter at the portion of the male flowers, provided with a few distant 

 and long pediceled female flowers below the males ; rachis shorter than 

 the peduncle ; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels of the males 6-12 mm. 

 long, filiform, erect-patent or patulous, not reflexed. Flowers monoeciously 

 unisexual. Male flowers numerous, 4-5 mm. across; sepals, 3, oval, obtuse, 

 concave, reflexed, purplish, 4^-5 mm. long, 3-4 mm, broad. Stamens 6, 

 erect, incurved, 31-41 mm. long ; anther oblong, obtuse, with a very short 

 filament, cells linear arid extrorse. Kudimentary pistils 3-5, minute, erect, 

 narrow. Female flowers few on each raceme, aljout 2 cm. across ; sepals 

 3, patent, orbicular, deeply concave internally assuming a hemisphterical 

 form, thickish, purple ; pedicel 2l-5| cm. long. Eudimentary stamens 6, 

 minute, broadly oblong, truncato-obtuse at the top. Ovaries 3-5, sessile, 

 radiately erect-patent, oblong-cylindrical, about 5 mm. long, with a terminal 

 and discoidal stigma. Fruit oblong, about 9 cm. long, violaceous. 



Akebia lobata /9. pentaphylla Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, V. (1891) 

 p. 329, et XII. (1898) p. 195. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Karatani in Ainogo {T. Maldno \ Dec. 1891), 



