Labdizabalaceae. 



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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, pi. 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, pi. i. 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, pi. 7. 





