MENISPERMACEAE. 
Determined by ALFRED Reuper and E. H. WILSON. 
SINOMENIUM Diels. 
Sinomenium acutum Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Menispermum acutum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 193 (1784). — Lamarck, Encycl. 
Méth. Bot. IV. 96 (1797). 
Menispermum? acutum De Candolle, Syst. I. 541 (1818); Prodr. I. 103 (1824). 
Cocculus? diversifolius Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 10 (Prol. Fl. Jap. 
198) (non De Candolle) (1867). 
Cocculus diversifolius Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Fl. Jap. I. 20 (non De Can- 
dolle) (1875). — Maximowiez in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, sér. 3, 
XXIX. 71, t. 2, fig. 21-35 (1883); in Mél. Biol. XI. 652 (1883). 
Cebatha Miqueliana O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 9 (1891). 
Cocculus heterophyllus Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1906, 
150 
Menispermum diversifolium Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LV. 38 
(non Prantl) (1908). 
Cocculus? acutus Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII. 172 (1908). 
Sinomenium diversifolium Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 254 (1910). — 
Hemsley in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LII. 402, fig. 178 (1912). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., June 1907 
(No. 617°; climber 3-6 m., flowers greenish). Western Szech’uan: 
Mt. Omei, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4718). Korea: Quelpaert, 
September 1909, T'aquet (No. 2599). 
The typical Japanese form is very rare in western China and it is possible that 
the Chinese specimens enumerated above should be referred to the following as a 
glabrescent form. 
Diels in his monograph (l. c.) apparently overlooked Thunberg's Menispermum 
acutum and Makino’s identification (l. c.) of it with Miquel's Cocculus? diversifolius. 
Sinomenium acutum, var. cinereum Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Cocculus diversifolius, var. cinereus Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXXVI. Beibl. 
LXXXII. 45 (1905). 
Menispermum diversifolium, var. molle Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
LV. 39 (1908). 
Sinomenium diversifolium, var. cinereum Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 
255 (1910). 
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