LARDIZABALACEAE, 55 
AKEBIA. 
(Family Lardizabalaceae). 
Woody twiners: deciduous. 
Stems terete, slender: pith small, 
continuous and homogeneous, pale, 
Buds rather small, sometimes 
branching from the axils of their 
lower scales, sessile, ovoid, sub- 
acute, with a dozen or more ovate 
mucronate scales. Leaf-scars al- 
ternate, half elliptic, much-raised: 
bundle-traces half-a-dozen in a 
broken ellipse (reduced to 3 at 
level of the stem): stipule-scars 
lacking. 
Winter-character references to 
Akebia are to be found in Schnei- 
der, f. 148 (A. quinata); and Shi- 
rasawa, p. 261, pl. 7 (A: quinata 
and A. lobata). 
Stems green becoming brown, 
glabrous. A. quinata. 
Winter-character references to Menispermaceae:—Coccu- 
lus carolinus (C. virginica). Schneider, f. 65. C. Thun- 
bergii. Shirasawa, 259, pl. /. Menispermum canadense. Bose- 
mann, 43; Hitchcock (3), 8, (4), 134, f. 4-9; Schaffner, Ohio 
Naturalist, 6:506; Schneider, f. 65. M. davuricum. Shira- 
sawa, 259, pl. 7. 
