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Menispermaceae. 



Conspectus of tlw Forntosan Genera. 



(1) Flowers 3-merous. Ovaries usually 3. Seeds horse- shoe- shaped, 



albumen copious. c2i. 



Flow* -ix 3-5-merous. (3 varies usually solitary, seeds horse- 

 shoe-shaped, albumen scanty StepJtania. 3 



(2j Styles subulate Cocculus. 1 



Styles forced Pericampylw '2 



1. Cocculus DC. 



Dichotofltous Key to tlic, Forntosan Species. 



Erect Shrub C. laurifdim. 



Scandeiit. 1 



(1) Leaves rounded or ovately rhomboid C. Tltunberyii. 



Leaves obovately cuneite or linear 6*. cuneatiis. 



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

 HENRY List PI. Foriuos. p. 16; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Eiium. PL Formos. 

 p. 14. 



X<-j>hi'i'-'i cuneifolia MIEI;S, in " Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. p. 26." 



HAB. Tainan, Hozaii, Kelting, Mt. Tak.>w, Boryo. 



DISTRIB. An endemic plsmt. 



Cocculus Thunbergii DC. Prodi. I. p. 98 ; HANCE in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XIII. p. 99 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XL p. 651 ; FBAXCHET PL David, 

 p. 24; FOKBES et HEMSL. lud. Fl. Sin. I. p. 28; HENRY List PL Formos. 

 ]>. 10; DIELS Fl. Ceutr. Chin, in Extn.. Dot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 315; 

 PALIBEX Conspect. Fl. Koreie I. p. 10 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Euniu. PL 

 Formos. p. 14. 



Cocculus ovdl/dii'fs DC. 1'ivxlr. I. p. 09; IJEXTH. Fl. Hougk. p. I'J. 



Cocculus diantlterw HOOK, et ARX. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 167. 



