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Akebia lobata var. australis Diels in Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 344 (1900) 



Bailey, Gent. Herb. i. 23 (1920).— Hers in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. 

 Soc. Lin. 106 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 2 (1922). 



Honan: Yung ning, Tsi li ping. J. Hers, no. 418 b,s , May 22, 1919; 

 Chikung shan, L. H. Bailey (ex Bailey, 1. c.). 



Distribution: also Hupeh, Kiangsi, Szechuan, Yunnan. 



Though Hers' no. 418 bis has entire leaflets like the variety, it may 

 belong to the type; the leaves are too young to show the coriaceous texture 

 characteristic of the variety. 



BERBERIDACEAE 



Nandina domestica Thunberg, Nov. Gen. PI. i. 15 (1781); Fl. Jap. 9 

 (1784).— Bunge in Mem. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. n. 78 (Enum. 

 PI. Chin..Bor. 4) (1833).— Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxm. 32 (1886). 

 Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. xxxiv. beibl. lxxv. 35 (1904).— Loesener in Bot. 

 Centralbl. Beih. xxxvn. abt. n. 124 (1919).— Bailey, Gent. Herb. i. 23 

 (1920).— Hers in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 112 (1922); 

 Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 19 (1922). 



Chili : Peking, cultivated (ex Bunge, 1. c.) ; E. Bretschneider (ex Hemsley, 

 1. c). 



Shantung: Cape Ya tau, planted, R. Zimmermann, no. 462 (ex Gilg, 

 1. c, and Loesener, 1. c). 



Honan: planted (ex Bailey, 1. c, and Hers, 1. c). 



Distribution: also Chekiang, Kiangsi, Fokien, Hupeh; Japan. 



In northern China this plant does not occur wild. In Peking it does 



not stand the climate and is grown in the house according to Bunge. 



Berberis Soulieana Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 2, v. 449 

 (1905); in Sargent, PI. Wilson. I. 361 (1913); m. 437 ( 1 9 1 7) . — Mey er 



in U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PI. Indust. Invent. Seeds PI. Imp. xliii. 66, 

 no. 40682 (1918). 



Berberix strnophylla Hance in Jour. Bot. xx. 257 (1882). — Fedde in Bot. 



Jahrb. xxxvi. beibl. lxxxii. 44 (1905). — Non Lindley. 

 Berberis Wallichiana Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxm. 32 (1886). — Maxi- 



mowicz in Act. Hort. Petrop. xi. 42 (1890).— Diels in Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 



341 (1900), quoad specimen coll. a Piasezki. — Non De Candolle. 

 Berberis levia Schneider in Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 2, vm. 198 (1908), quoad 



specimina e Shensi et synonyma citata. — Non Franchet. 



Shensi: Tai pei shan, W. Purdom, no. 7, 1910; Tsin ling shan, P. J. 

 Piasezki (ex Hemsley, 1. c, Maximowicz, 1. c, and Diels, 1. c); Ngo shan, 

 Kan y shan, Kan y huo, G. Giraldi (ex Fedde, 1. c.).— See also Schneider, 

 1. c. (1^08 and 1917). 



Kansu: near Kwa tsa, on decomposed rock slope, alt. 1400 m., F. N. 



Meyer 



id Meyer, 1. c. 



Distribution: also Szechuan, 



— See also Schneider, 1. c. (1917), 



