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Menispermaeeee. 



Conspectus of the Formosan Genera. 



(1) Flowers 3-merous. ( ) varies usually 3. Heeds horse-shoe-shaped, 



albumen copious. (2). 



Flowers 3-5-merous. Ovaries usually solitary, seeds horse- 

 shoe-shaped, albumen scanty Stephanie., 3 



('2) Styles subulate Cocculus. 1 



Styles forked Pericampylus 2 



1. Coccitlus DC. 



Dichotomous Key to (he Formosan Species. 



Erect Shrub C. laurifolius. 



Scandent. (1) 



(1) Leaves rounded or ovately rhomboid C, T/ttmbergiL 



Leaves obovately cuneate or linear C. cimeatw. 



Cocculus cuneatus BENTH. ; FOKBES et HEMSL. lud. Fl. Sin. I. p. 28 ; 

 HENRY List PL Formos. p. 16 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Forinos. 

 p. 14. 



Nephroica cuiieifoUa ]\FIEES, in " Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. p. 26." 



HAB. Tainan, Hozaii, Keluug, Mt. Takow, Boryo. 



DiSTitii;. An endemic plant. 



Cocculus Thunbergii IX'. 1'rodr. I. p. 98 ; HANCE in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XIII. p. 99 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XL p. 051 ; FBANCHET PL David, 

 p. 24; FOUBKS et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 28; HENI;Y List PL Formos. 

 p. 16; DIELS FL Centr. Chin, in ENGL. But, Jalirb. XXIX. p. 345; 

 I'ALIDIX Conspect. FL Koreaj I. p. 19 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL 

 Formos. p. 14. 



Cocculus ovalifdii<(s DC. Pr.xlr. I. p. 99; BENTII. FL Hoiigk. p. 13. 



Cocculus diantlterus HOOK, et Aux. Bot. Beech. Voy, p. 167, 



