MENISPERMACEAE. — STEPHANIA 389 
Kiangsi: Kuling, alt. 1300 m., abundant, July 28, 1907 (No. 1539; 
climber 3 m., flowers white). Western Hupeh: north and south of 
Ichang, side of streams, alt. 300-1000 m., abundant, June 1907 (No. 
2284; climber 2-3 m.); without locality, June and July 1900 and 
August 1901 (Veiteh Exped. Nos. 1201, 1429, 2561); without locality, 
A. Henry (No. 3640). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. 
Macgregor. Shantung: Tsingtau, 1901, Zimmerman (No. 216). 
Korea: Seoul, September 1905, J. G. Jack; Quelpaert, July 1908 and 
August and September 1909, Taquet (Nos. 542, 543, 2600, 2597, 
2598). 
This very variable plant is abundant in western Hupeh and in Szech’uan up 
to 1000 m. altitude, where it is colloquially known as the “ Hsiao Ching-teng." 
Many of the forms look very distinct in foliage but the leaves are so inconstant in 
shape, size and degree of pubescence that it is useless to attempt to distinguish 
between them. 
DIPLOCLISIA Miers. 
Diploclisia affinis Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 227 (1910). 
Cocculus affinis Oliver in Hooker’s Icon. XVIII. t. 1760 (1888). — Diels in 
Bot. Jahrb. X XIX. 345 (1900). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, rocky places, not common, alt. 
1000 m., May 8, 1907 (No. 2286, in part; climber 3 m., flowers yellow); 
Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 600-1000 m., June 6, 1907 (No. 2286, in part; 
climber 3 m., fruit blue-black); without locality, May 1900 (Veitch 
Exped. No. 822). Fokien: without locality, Dunn's Exped., 1905 
(Herb. Bot. Gard. Hongkong, No. 2336). 
STEPHANIA Lour. 
Stephania Delavayi Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 275 (1910). 
Kiangsi: plain around Kiukiang, alt. 100 m., July 27, 1907 (No. 
1541; climber 3 m., flowers greenish). Western Hupeh: without 
locality, A. Henry (No. 1664). 
Common by the roadsides in the vicinity of the lower Yangtsze river. 
Stephania japonica Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XVIII. 
14 (1866); Contrib. Bot. III. 213 (1871). — O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 9 
(pro parte) (1891). — Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 277 (1910). 
Menispermum japonicum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 193 (1784). — Lamarck, Encycl. 
Méth. Bot. IV. 96 (1797). 
