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9 1-2 basi racemi positi ; sepala 3 dilatata jestivatione valvata post 

 anthesin decidua ; petala vel 3 {Akcbia diplochlamys Nakai) ; stamina 

 vel abortiva 6 ; carpella 6 (abortive 4-5) divaricata cylindrica ; stig- 

 mata sessilia ; placenta parietalia pluriserialia ; ovula °° . Flores d* 

 numerosi (in Akebia longeracemosa Hayata, species Formosana per- 

 distincta numerosissima) pedicellati ; sepala 3 jEstivatione valvata con- 

 cava patentia ; petala vel in Akcbia diplochlamys Nakai 3 ; stamina 

 6 libera, filamenta brevia, connectiva dilatata extus antheris 2 ins- 

 tructa, antherae extrorsse rima longitudinali apertae, carpella abortiva 

 6. Fructus oblongi in quoque pedunculo 1-5 ventrali longitudine 

 hiantes carnosi. Semina numerosa in pulpa gelatinosa immersa ^ - 

 serialia, testa nitida Crustacea, albuminosa. Embryo minimus circa 

 hilum positus. 



Species 6 in Yeso, Hondo, Sikoku, Kiusin, Tusima, Korea, Taiwan 

 et China incola. 



Akebia quinata Decaisne 

 (Tab. III). 

 Akebia quinata (Thunberg) Decaisne in Arch. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris 

 I, 195, PI. XIII A (1839), in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 ser. XII, 167 (1839) ; 

 Siebold & Ztjccarini, Fl. Jap. I, 143 t. 77 (1841) ; Schnizleix, 

 IconogT. Ill, t. 172 a (1843); Siebold & Zuccarixi in Abh. Muench. 

 Akad. IV, 3, 189 (1845) ; Lindlev in Bot. Regist. XXXIII, t. 2S 

 (1847) ; Decaisne in Rev. Hort. 4 ser. II, 141 f. 8 (1853) ; V. Houtte, 

 Flore des Serres X, 83 t. 1000 (1854-5) ; W. J. Hooker in Curtis, 

 Bot. Mag. LXXXI, t. 4884 (1855) ; A. Gray in Perry's Expedit. 307 

 (1857) ; Agardh, Theor. Syst. PI. t. 5 (1858) ; Miouel in Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. Ltigd. Bat. Ill, 9 (1867) ; Prol. 197 (1867) ; Kirchner, Arbor. 

 Muse. 120 (1864) ; Koch, Dendrol. I, 390 (1S69) : Baillon, Hist. PI. 

 Ill, 72 (1872); Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I, 21 (1874); 

 K. Ito, Catal. PI. Koishikawa Bot. Gard. 6 (1S77) ; Lauhe, Deutsch. 

 Dendrol. ed. 2, 365 (1883) ; K. Ito & Kaku, Koishikawa Shokubutuen 

 Somoku Dzusetu II, PI. 1 (1SS4) ; Matsumura, Nippon Shoknbutsu 

 meii 8 (1884) ; Catal. PI. Herb. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. 9 & 271 (18S6) ; 

 Forbes &. Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII, 30 (18S6) ; Okubo, 

 Catal. PI. Bot. Gard. Imp. Univ. 11 (1887) ; T. Ito in Journ. Linn. 



