350 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



flowers whitish, fruit pale blue); southeast of Sungpan, woodlands, 

 alt. 2600-2800 m., August 1910 (No. 226%- large climber 6-10 m.); 

 without precise locality, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3140). 



One of the strongest growing and most common deciduous climbers in the woods 

 and forests of western Hupeh and of Szech'uan between 1500-2800 m. alt. The in- 

 conspicuous flowers are followed by long racemes of pale lavender-purple colored 

 grape-like fruits. The pulp of the fruit is whitish, watery, edible, but of insipid 

 flavor. The small flattened seeds are dull black. 



SARGENTODOXA Rehd. & Wils. 



Sargentodoxa Rehder & Wilson, n. gen. 



Flores, ut videtur, dioeci. Flores masculi: sepala 6, biserialia, 

 aequalia, petaloidea; nectaria 6, minuta, suborbicularia, carnosa; sta- 

 mina 6, libera, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis, extrorsis, biri- 

 mosis, connectivo carnoso lato apiculato; ovaria rudimentaria minuta, 

 4-5, filiformia. Flores feminei: perianthium ignotum; carpella dis- 

 creta, plura v. numerosa, lageniformia, in stylum filiforme attenuata, 

 stigmate, ut videtur, parvo subcapitato; ovula solitaria, pendentia, 

 anatropa. Carpella matura ovoidea, manifeste stipitata, carnosa, tore 

 subgloboso V. oblongo insidentia; semina ovoidea, testa Crustacea 

 nitidissima levissima nigra, hilo magno applanato cinereo-albido ; al- 

 bumen copiosum carnosum; embryo parvus, rectus, radiculo ad hilum 

 spectante. — Frutex scandens; ramuli annotini duobus seriebus fasci- 

 culorum vascularium majorum et minorum alternantium instruct!; 

 folia 3-foliolata, decidua, longe petiolata: flores lutei, utri usque sexus 

 in racemis multifloris pendulis basi nudis simul cum foliis e gemmis 

 axillaribus perulatis orientibus. Fructus pauci in quoque racemo 

 evoluti, carpellis numerosis v. pluribus baccatis stipitatis atrocoeruleis 

 instruct!. 



Genus novum inter Lardizabalaceas anomalum ob carpella numerosa 

 uni-ovulata; structura florum masculorum Holboelliae valde afflne, 

 foliis et inflorescentia Sinofranchetiae simile, fructu genera Magnolia- 

 cearum Kadsuram et Schizandram aemulans, sed carpellis uni-ovulatis 

 stipitatis distinctum, dispositione et structura fasciculorum vascularium 

 ramulorum Menispermacearum genera quaedam in mentem vocans. 



This new genus is named in compliment to Professor C. S. Sargent, Director 

 of the Arnold Arboretum, to which botanical science is indebted for splendid 

 collections made in China, for the publications of the scientific results of its expe- 

 ditions and for the introduction into cultivation of numerous ornamental and 

 highly interesting Chinese trees and shrubs. 



