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oblonga vel obovato-oblonga vel late elliptica 15-38 mm. longa 7-20 

 mm. lata basi cuneata vel obtusa apice obtusa vel emarginellata et 

 apiculata supra viridia infra pallida. Infiorescentia racemosa, cum 

 pedunculo 30-40 mm. longo 70-80 mm. longa. Pedicelli 5-6 mm. longi. 

 Sepala 4 mm. long"a 3 mm. lata atro-rubro-purpurea. .Stamina 6 sub- 

 sessilia. Antherse 2 mm. longse incurva; extrorsa?. 



Hab. in China. 

 Prov. Che-Kiang : Yiian-hai SfP (S. Chen, no. 2946, typus, Apr. 1934). 



This comes to the next of Akebia qziinata which is also found in 

 China, but its inflorescence is raceme instead of corymb with its shor- 

 ter pedicelled flowers. Flowers are darker coloured as in Akebia tri- 

 foliata (A. lobata), and anthers are smaller and nearly sessile. Akebia 

 longeraccmosa Hayata of Formosa is generally regarded as a variety 

 of Akebia quinata, but it is evergreen and its inflorescence is racemose 

 and twice as much longer as that of Akebia quinata, and bears very 

 many (nearly twenty) male flowers. 



