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three-ribbed leaves, about three iiiclies long on short foot- 

 stalks ; the clusters are represented not axillary as in the 

 others, but lateral and alternate from the spaces of the 

 stem between the joints. 



Section 2. Leaves compound. 



6. ^.quinata. Five-leaved umbellate Raiania. Thunb, 

 Jap., 148, Mart. n. 6. Leaves five on a common stalk, 

 eniarginated. Umbels axillary. Observed by Thunberg 

 about Nagasaki, and in Kosido in Japan, flowering in 

 April and May. The Japanese call this plant Fagi 

 Kcidsurer and Akebi, Stem twining, round, smooth, ash- 

 coloured, branched. Leaves several together, axillary, 

 stalked smooth, of five separately stalked, umbellate, 

 ovate, entire leaflets, each from three-quarters of an inch 

 to an inch in length, partial, half as long as the finger nail. 

 Flowers in umbels from the same buds as the leaves, on 

 slender stalks as long as the foot-stalks ; partial stalks 

 capillary, the length of the nail. This species differs 

 from the last, in having compound leaves and umbellate 

 flowers. (Thunberg.) 



R. hexajphylla. Six-leaved clustered Raiania. Thunb. 

 Jap., 149, Mart. n. 7. Leaves six on a common stalk, 

 oblong, acute. Flowers racemose. Native of the country of 

 Fakonia in Japan, among bushes, flowering in April; Its 

 vernacular names are Ahebi, Mhe, Kadsura, and Tsu So, 

 The stem is round, striated, smooth climbing. Leaves 

 alternate smooth, six on a stalk, umbellate on slender 

 partial stalks, oblong, acute, entire veins two inches long, 

 pale at the back. Common foot-stalks round, bent, three 

 or four inches long, swelling at each extremity. Flowers 

 in axillary clusters snow-white. Differs from B. quinata 

 in having mostly six leaflets on a stalk, which are acute 

 reticulated with veins at the back and larger than in that 

 species. The flowers moreover grow in clusters, not in 

 umbels. 



