LARDIZABALACEAE. — SINOFRANCHETIA 349 



ets, alt. 1000-1300 m., May 20 and September 1907 (No. 144; climber 

 3-6 m., flowers dark chocolate-red, fruit purple) ; Ichang, ravines and 

 thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., April and May 10, 1907 (Nos. 2386, 2387; 

 climber 5-6 m. flowers chocolate-red); without locality, April 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. lOS''); Ichang and neighborhood, A. Henry (No. 

 3382); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 1415, 7856«). Szech'uan: 

 without locality, A. Henry (No. 5636). Western Szech'uan: Wen- 

 ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1000-1500 m., September 1908 (No. 925, 

 in part; climber 6 m., fruit pale purple). Yunnan : Mengtze, moun- 

 tains, alt. 1300 m., A. Henry (No. 10679). 



This variety is much more abundant in central and western China than the 

 type and is found at lower altitudes. Gagnepain (1. c.) refers this plant to A. 

 clematifolia Siebold & Zuccarini and at the same time reduces it to a variety of 

 A. lobata Decaisne. The plant of Siebold & Zuccarini is easily distinguished from 

 A. lobata, var. australis Diels, by its thinner and much broader leaflets and is best 

 kept as a distinct variety. 



Here may be added a note on a variety of A. quinata from Formosa; 



Akebia quinata, var. longeracemosa Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 

 Akebia longeracemosa Matsumura in Tokyo Bat. Mag. XIII. 18 (1899). — 

 Matsumura & Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo XXII. 17, t. 2 {Enum. PL 

 Formosan.) (1906). 



Formosa: Takow, Ape's Hill, A. Henry (No. 319; large climber, in flower 

 May 12); Bankinsing, A. Henry (No. 1829). 



This differs from the type only in its very much longer peduncles and usually 

 broader leaflets. 



SINOFRANCHETIA Hemsl. 



Sinofranchetia chinensis Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 

 2842 (1907). — Fedde, Rep. Sp. Nov. V. 343 (1908). —Bean in Kew 

 Bull. Misc. Inform. XXII. 355 (1909). — Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. II. 912, fig. 572 (1912). 



HolboelUa cuneata OUver in Hooker's Icon. XIX. t. 1817 (pro parte) (1889) 



quoad fructum. 

 Parvatia chinensis Franchet in Journ. de Bot. VIII. 281 (1894). 

 Holbocllia chinensis Diels in Bot. JaAr&. XXIX. 343 (1900). — R6aubourg in 



Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 455, fig. 4 (1900). 



Western Hupeh : Fang Hsien, woods, alt. 1600-2600 m.. May 19 

 and September 1907 (No. 226; climber 10 m., flowers white with choc- 

 olate-colored striae, fruit lavender-purple); without locality, A. Henry 

 (No. 6480). Western Szech'uan: Chiu-ting-shan, thickets, alt. 

 1600-2800 m., May 22 and October 1908 (No. 1292; climber 6-10 m., 



