34 Berbevride@— A kebia. 
5. AKEBITA. 
A small genus of climbing shrubs with the leaves digitately 
3- or 5-foliolate. Flowers few, in axillary racemes, violet- 
coloured, polygamous. Sepals 3. Petals none. Male flowers 
with 6 free stamens and a rudimentary ovary. Female flowers 
with 6 or 9 rudimentary stamens. Carpels 3 to 9, stigma pel- 
tate ; seeds immersed in pulp. About four species, natives of 
Japan and China. The native name of the Japanese species. 
1. A. quindta.—A pretty twining plant with the leaves on 
very slender petioles, and palmately divided into usually 5 dis- 
tinct petiolulate oval or oblong emarginate leaflets, the basal 
pair smallest. Flowers small, purplish brown, very fragrant. 
A native of Japan, hardy in the south-western counties only. 
6. LARDIZABALA. 
Climbing shrubs with bi- or tri-ternate leaves and dicecious 
flowers. Sepals 6, somewhat fleshy. Petals 6, much smaller. 
Stamens 6, monadelphous. Carpels 3, seeds numerous. Flowers 
axillary, violet or purple, male racemose, female solitary. 
There are two Chilian species. Named in honour of a Spanish 
botanist. 
1. L. biterncta.—A tall evergreen climber with the dark 
glossy green leaves twice ternate. Flowers purple, in drooping 
racemes, appearing in December. This needs the protection 
of a wall. 
Orper VIL—NYMPHAACER. 
Aquatic herbs easily recognised by their large flat cordate 
or peltate leaves and showy flowers. Sepals 3 to 5. Petals 3 
to 5, or numerous, sometimes small. Stamens many. Carpels 
3 or more, in one whorl or series, adnate to a fleshy disk forming 
a several-celled ovary; styles equal in number to the carpels ; 
stigma peltate or decurrent; ovules many, scattered over the 
walls of the cells; ovules orthotropous. Fruit with consoli- 
dated or free carpels; seeds numerous; albumen farinaceous. 
Fresh-water plants, not numerous in species, but very widely 
spread. The hardy species are limited to our well-known 
white and yellow Water-Lilies, with a few others from North 
America and Siberia. 
