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the birthwort family. It is a splendid vine for covering porches, 
its large kidney-shaped leaves affording a dense shade. The plant 
is also interesting as being a northern representative of a genus, 
Aristolochia, that in tropical countries produces perhaps the 
largest flowers known, except in Raffesia. In this native species, 
however, they are small and half hidden by the leaves. They are of 
a curious pipe-like shape, and it is from this resemblance that the 
plant has derived its common name. 
Near the Dutchman’s pipe is Brannichia, of the buckwheat 
family, one of the few native representatives of the group that is 
enough of a trailer to warrant its appearance in such a collection 
as this. It is little more than a climbing herbaceous perennial. 
Just above this is a collection of the familiar Clematis. None 
of the plants are very large as yet, and Clematis vitalba, or 
“Traveller's Joy,” of England, is scarcely what one would ex- 
pect from reading descriptions of this historic vine. It was 
called ‘‘ Traveller’s Joy’ by Gerarde in his Herbal (1597), and 
it is interesting to read what he said then of one of the most 
beautiful vines of rural England : ‘ These plants have no use in 
Phisicke, as yet found, but are esteemed onely for pleasure, by 
reason of the goodly shadowe which they make with their thicke 
bushing and clyming, as also for the beautie of the flowers and 
the oe sent (sé) and savour of the same.” 
“ Akebi Kadsura ” (Akebia ee from China and Japan 
isa pee climber with a 5-foliolate leaf, and curious flowers 
druggists make an emollient from the sap that is used in bron- 
chial troubles. The orientals of San Francisco use a vegetable 
decoction, a large part of which is made from the juice of 
“ Akebi,” that is credited with being the usual panacea for all 
ills ; much after the fashion of similarly exploited occidental reme- 
dies. The flowers are fugitive, being of a dark red color and 
partly hidden by the profusion of leaves. 
Passing by the Actinidia or ‘' Saru Nasi,” the fruits of which 
