348 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
(1889). — Komarov in Act. Hort. Petrop. XXV. 294 (Fl. Mansh. III.) 
(1907). — Nakai in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXI. 94 (Fl. Kor. IL.) 
(1911). 
Endotropis auriculata Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. I. 319 (non De- 
caisne ) (1875). 
Cynoctonum Wilfordii Maximowiez in Bull. Ac. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, XXIII. 
370 (1877); in Mél. Biol. IX. 799 (1877). 
Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1300 m., July 
1907 (No. 2248; climber 1.8 m. tall, flowers yellowish). 
This species is well distinguished from those of the sect. Endotropis by the 
corolla-lobes, which are not spreading or reflexed, and by the simple lobes of the 
petaloid corona which are almost orbicular. K. Schumann (in Engler & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. IV. Abt. 2, 252 [1895]) apparently mistook this species for C. auri- 
culatum Wight (see above), as he stated that it had a reflexed corolla. 
SECAMONE R. Br. 
Secamone emetica R. Brown! apud Roemer & Schultes, Syst. 
VI. 124 (1820). — R. Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. 60 (1834); Icon. Pl. Ind. 
Orient. IV. t. 1283 (1850); IU. Ind. Bot. II. 169, t. 155°, fig. d (1850). — 
Decaisne in De Candolle, Prodr. VIII. 501 (1844). — Hooker f., Fl. 
Brit. Ind. IV. 13 (1883). — K. Schumann in Engler & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. ITI. Abt. 2, 262, fig. 76 b-e (1895). —Costantin in Le- 
comte, Fl. Gén. Indo-China, IV. 43 (1912). 
Periploca emetica Retzius, Obs. Bot. II. 14 (1781). 
Western Szech’uan: Tung River valley, near Wa-shan, thickets, 
alt. 1300 m., June 1908 (No. 2246; climber, flowers yellow), without 
precise locality, alt. 1100 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4090; 
climber, flowers yellow). Yunnan: between Yung-peh-ting and Tai 
naoko, thickets, alt. about 1800 m., July 3, 1914, C. Schneider (No. 
1732; little climbing shrub up to 3 m. tall). 
INDIA. South Deccan Peninsula: '* Maisor & Carnatic. Regio trop.” 
T. Thomson; without precise locality (No. 1895 Herb. Wight). x 
Wilson's specimens agree with Wight’s picture and the Indian plants mentioned 
above. My Yunnan specimen is a little different, the corona-lobes being somewhat 
longer and extending to the tips of the anthers. In Schumann's figure these lobes 
are intermediate between the typical form and that of my Yunnan specimen. I 
have not seen any fruit. 
1 Tt is always quoted “ Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. I. 56," but Brown did not make 
the combination; he only described the genus Secamone and mentions as belonging 
to it Periploca emetica Retzius. The correct quotation for the genus seems to be 
R. Brown in Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. I. 55 (1810), fide C. G. Nees von Esenbeck, 
R. Brown's Verm. Bot. Schrift. II. 392 (1826); Prodr. Fl. Holl. I. 464 (1810); 
Misc. Bot. Works, 1I. 229 (1867). 
