LARDIZABALACEAE. — SINOFRANCHETIA 349 
ets, alt. 1000-1300 m., May 20 and September 1907 (No. 144; climber 
3-6 m., flowers dark chocolate-red, fruit purple); Ichang, ravines and 
thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., April and May 10, 1907 (Nos. 2386, 2387; 
elimber 5-6 m. flowers chocolate-red); without locality, April 1900 
(Veitch Exped. No. 1052); Ichang and neighborhood, A. Henry (No. 
3382); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 1415, 7856*). Szech'uan: 
without locality, A. Henry (No. 5636). Western Szech'uan: Wén- 
ch’uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1000-1500 m., September 1908 (No. 925, 
in part; climber 6 m., fruit pale purple. Yunnan: Mengtze, moun- 
tains, alt. 1300 m., A. Henry (No. 10679). 
'This variety is much more abundant in central and western China than the 
type and is found at lower altitudes. Gagnepain (l. c.) refers this plant to A. 
clematifolia Siebold & Zuccarini and at the same time reduces it to a variety of 
A. lobata Decaisne. The plant of Siebold & Zuccarini is easily distinguished from 
A. lobata, var. australis Diels, by its thinner and much broader leaflets and is best 
kept as a distinct variety. 
Here may be added a note on a variety of A. quinata from Formosa: 
Akebia quinata, var. longeracemosa Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Akebia longeracemosa Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XIII. 18 (1899). — 
Matsumura & Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo XXII. 17, t. 2 (Enum. Pl. 
Formosan.) (1906). 
Formosa: Takow, Ape's Hill, A. Henry (No. 319; large climber, in flower 
May 12); Bankinsing, A. Henry (No. 1829). 
This differs from the type only in its very much longer peduncles and usually 
broader leaflets. 
SINOFRANCHETIA Hemsl. 
Sinofranchetia chinensis Hemsley in Hookers Icon. XXIX. t. 
2842 (1907). — Fedde, Rep. Sp. Nov. V. 343 (1908). — Bean in Kew 
Bull. Misc. Inform. XXII. 355 (1909). — Schneider, IU. Handb. 
Laubholzk. YI. 912, fig. 572 (1912). 
Holboellia cuneata Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XIX. t. 1817 (pro parte) (1889) 
quoad fructum. 
Parvatia chinensis Franchet in Journ. de Bot. VIII. 281 (1894). 
Holboellia chinensis Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 343 (1900). — Réaubourg in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 455, fig. 4 (1906). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, woods, alt. 1600-2600 m., May 19 
and September 1907 (No. 226; climber 10 m., flowers white with choc- 
olate-colored striae, fruit lavender-purple); without locality, A. Henry 
(No. 6480). Western Szech’uan: Chiu-ting-shan, thickets, alt. 
1600-2800 m., May 22 and October 1908 (No. 1292; climber 6-10 m., 
