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Humulus (SYN Lupulus Flowers diaecious)

SYN. Lupulus. Flowers diaecious, the males paniculate, the females spicate. Leaves opposite, petiolate, broad, five to seven-nerved. To the species described on p. 157, Vol. II., the following should now be added: H. japonicus (Japanese). fl., males in long, lax panicles; females in short, ovoid spikes, on long peduncles, with cordate, cuspidate-acuminate bracts, which do not enlarge in the fruit. l. palmately five to seven-lobed, the margins toothed. Japan, 1886. Somewhat like the common Hop. (R. G. 1886, p. 359, f. 43.)