350 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
flowers whitish, fruit pale blue); southeast of Sungpan, woodlands, 
alt. 2600-2800 m., August 1910 (No. 226°; large climber 6-10 m.); 
without precise locality, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3140). 
One of the strongest growing and most common deciduous climbers in the woods 
and forests of western Hupeh and of Szech’uan between 1500-2800 m. alt. The in- 
conspicuous flowers are followed by long racemes of pale lavender-purple colored 
grape-like fruits. The pulp of the fruit is whitish, watery, edible, but of insipid 
flavor. The small flattened seeds are dull black. 
SARGENTODOXA Rehd. & Wils. 
Sargentodoxa Rehder & Wilson, n. gen. 
Flores, ut videtur, dioeci. Flores masculi: sepala 6, biserialia, 
aequalia, petaloidea; nectaria 6, minuta, suborbicularia, carnosa; sta- 
mina 6, libera, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis, extrorsis, biri- 
mosis, connectivo carnoso lato apiculato; ovaria rudimentaria minuta, 
4-5, filiformia. Flores feminei: perianthium ignotum; carpella dis- 
creta, plura v. numerosa, lageniformia, in stylum filiforme attenuata, 
stigmate, ut videtur, parvo subcapitato; ovula solitaria, pendentia, 
anatropa. Carpella matura ovoidea, manifeste stipitata, carnosa, toro 
subgloboso v. oblongo insidentia; semina ovoidea, testa crustacea 
nitidissima levissima nigra, hilo magno applanato cinereo-albido; al- 
bumen copiosum carnosum; embryo parvus, rectus, radiculo ad hilum 
spectante. — Frutex scandens; ramuli annotini duobus seriebus fasci- 
culorum vascularium majorum et minorum alternantium instructi; 
folia 3-foliolata, decidua, longe petiolata: flores lutei, utriusque sexus 
in racemis multifloris pendulis basi nudis simul cum foliis e gemmis 
axillaribus perulatis orientibus. Fructus pauci in quoque racemo 
evoluti, carpellis numerosis v. pluribus baccatis stipitatis atrocoeruleis 
instructi. 
Genus novum inter Lardizabalaceas anomalum ob carpella numerosa 
uni-ovulata; structura florum masculorum Holboelliae valde affine, 
foliis et inflorescentia Sinofranchetiae simile, fructu genera Magnolia- 
cearum Kadsuram et Schizandram aemulans, sed carpellis uni-ovulatis 
stipitatis distinctum, dispositione et structura fasciculorum vascularium 
ramulorum Menispermacearum genera quaedam in mentem vocans. 
This new genus is named in compliment to Professor C. S. Sargent, Director 
of the Arnold Arboretum, to which botanical science is indebted for splendid 
collections made in China, for the publications of the scientific results of its expe- 
ditions and for the introduction into cultivation of numerous ornamental and 
highly interesting Chinese trees and shrubs, 
