6 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
Smilax discotis Warburg in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 256 (1900). 
Smilaz china Wright in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 96 (in part) (1903). 
Smilax feroz A. De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. I. 102 (in part) (1878). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000-1300 m., 
May 31, 1907 (No. 3231; large climber, flowers greenish; same locality, 
woods, alt. 1600 m., May 10, 1907 (No. 3235; large climber, flowers 
greenish); same locality, upland thickets, alt. 2300-2600 m., May 19, 
1907 (No. 3236; climber 2-3 m., flowers greenish); same locality, 
thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 2, 1907 (No. 3239; climber 4 m., 
flowers whitish); same locality, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 2, 1907 (No. 
3240; climber 4-5 m., flowers greenish); north and south of Ichang, 
thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., May 28, 1907 (No. 3232; climber 2-4 m., 
flowers greenish yellow); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 1000-1300 m., May 
11, 1907 (No. 3237; climber 2.6-4 m., flowers greenish yellow); same 
locality, roadsides, alt. 1000-1300 m., May 11, 1907 (No. 3238; climber 
3-5 m., flowers greenish yellow). Western Szech’uan: Wa-shan, 
thickets, alt. 1200-2000 m., July 1908 (No. 3243; climber 3 m., flowers 
yellowish); west and near Wén-ch’uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600- 
2000 m., July and October 1908 (No. 3244; climber 3 m., fruit blue- 
black). Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains north, alt. 2600 m., A. Henry 
(No. 10566; large climber); shady situations amongst scrub in side 
valley on the eastern flank of the Tali range, lat. 25° 40’, alt. 2300— 
3000 m., July and August 1906, G. Forrest (No. 4796; spinous shrub of 
1-2.5 m., flowers brownish green); Lichiang valley, lat. 27° 15’, alt. 
2800 m., May 1906, G. Forrest (No. 2180). 
The Chinese colloquial name of this species is “Hsao-chin-pa-tou.” 
Smilax discotis, var. concolor, Norton, n. var. 
A typo recedit habitu robustiore, foliis subtus non glaucis, auriculis 
stipularibus 24 petioli non excedentibus. 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1600 m., 
June 1907 (No. 193, in part, type; climber 3-5 m.); same locality, 
September 1907 (No. 193, in part; climber 3-5 m.); Changyang 
Hsien, roadside thickets, alt. 1000-1300 m., October 1907 (No. 420; 
climber 2.5 m., fruit black). 
Smilax micropoda A. De Candolle, var. reflexa Norton, n. var. 
Smilaz flaccida Warburg in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 259 (non Wright) (1900). 
