LARDIZABALACEAE. — SARGENTODOXA 851 
Sargentodoxa resembles in its foliage so closely Sinofranchetia, that Oliver de- 
scribed the flowers of this genus and the fruits of Sinofranchetia as belonging to the 
same species. The fruits, however, are so entirely different from all other members 
of the Lardizabalaceae, that this new genus can only be retained in its present place, 
if the characters of the family are considerably amended, or it must be made the 
type of a new family, but as long as the pistillate flowers are not known, it may be 
safer to leave it with the Lardizabalaceae as an anomalous genus which has the 
number of ovules in each carpel reduced to one and the number of carpels multi- 
plied. Though we have not seen the pistillate flowers, we are convinced that aside 
from the sexual organs they do not present marked differences, as the inflorescences 
are exactly alike. The characters of the young carpels we described from unde- 
veloped carpels which we found on the torus of the fruit between the mature 
earpels; they also show that the young carpels are at first sessile and that the 
remarkable long stalk develops while the carpel grows to maturity. 
Sargentodoxa cuneata Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Holboellia cuneata Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XIX. t. 1817 (pro parte) (1889), 
fructibus exclusis. — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 343 (1900). — Réaubourg 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, sér. 4, VI. 454, fig. 3 (1906). — Hemsley in Hooker's 
Icon. sub. t. 2842 (1907). — Gagnepain in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, 
XIV. 67 (1908). 
Frutex volubilis ad 7 m. altus; ramuli subteretes, annotini fusci v. 
fusco-rubri, glabri, cortice interdum rimis longitudinalibus fisso; 
gemmae pluri-perulatae perulis scariosis glabris acuminatis, exteriori- 
bus ovatis, interioribus oblongo-ovatis tenuioribus. Folia decidua, 
3-foliolata, utrinque glabra, laete viridia, demum chartacea, folium 
medium rhomboideum v. rhomboideo-obovatum, acutum, basi in 
petiololum brevem 4-8 mm. longum attenuatum, integrum, 7-12 em. 
longum et 3.5-7 cm. latum, nervis utrinsecus circiter 4, foliola lateralia 
oblique ovata, sessilia, acuta, basi intus cuneata, extus fere truncata 
v. rotundata, quam terminale paullo majora; petioli supra leviter sul- 
cati, basi dilatati, 4-11 cm. longi, glabri. Flores masculi lutei, fra- 
grantes, in racemis multifloris pendulis 10-12 cm. longis dispositi; . 
pedicelli graciles, 1.5-2 em. longi, basi bractea oblonga acutiuscula 
scariosa 3-4 mm. longa suffulti, supra medium bracteolis 2 minutis 
subulatis distantibus instructi; sepala 6, erecto-patentia v. patentia, 
anguste oblonga, obtusiuscula v. obtusa, margine leviter undulata et 
demum involuta, 10-12 mm. longa et 3-4 mm. lata; nectaria 6, rhom- 
bico-orbicularia, circiter 1.2 mm. longa; stamina 6, 3.5-4 mm. longa, 
filamentis anthera dimidio v. ultra brevioribus dilatatis, antheris man- 
ifeste extrorsis oblongis apicem versus attenuatis, connectivo lato 
crasso apiculato; ovaria rudimentaria filiformia v. interdum basi 
leviter incrassata, 1 mm. longa. Fructus plerumque pauci tantum in 
