MENISPERMACEAE. 



Determined by Alfked Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



SINOMENroM Diels. 



Sinomenium acutum Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Menispermum acutum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 193 (1784). — Lamarck, Encycl. 

 Meth. Bot. IV. 96 (1797). 



Menispermum? acutum De Candolle, Syst. I. 541 (1818); Prodr. I. 103 (1824). 



Cocculv^f diversifolius Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 10 {Prol. Fl. Jap. 

 198) (non De Candolle) (1867). 



Cocculus diversifolius Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Fl. Jap. I. 20 (non De Can- 

 dolle) (1875). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Set. St. Petersbourg, sdr. 3, 

 XXIX. 71, t. 2, fig. 21-35 (1883); in Mel. Biol. XI. 652 (1883). 



Cehatha Miqueliana O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 9 (1891). 



Cocculus heterophyllus Hemsley & Wilson in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1906, 

 150. 



Menispermum diversifolium Gagnepain in Bull. Sac. Bat. France, LV, 38 

 (non Prantl) (1908). 



Cocculus? acuius Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII, 172 (1908). 



Sinomenium diversifolium Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 254 (1910). — 

 Hemsley in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LII. 402, fig. 178 (1912). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., June 1907 

 (No. 617"; climber 3-6 m., flowers greenish). Western Szech'uan: 

 Mt. Omei, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4718). Korea : Quelpaert, 

 September 1909, Taquet (No. 2599). 



The typical Japanese form is very rare in western China and it is possible that 

 the Chinese specimens enumerated above should be referred to the following as a 

 glabrescent form. 



Diels in his monograph (1. c.) apparently overlooked Thunberg's Menispermum 

 acutum and Makino's identification (1. c.) of it with Miquel's Cocculus? diversifolium. 



Sinomenium acutum, var. cinereimi Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Cocculus diversifolius, var. cinereus Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXXVI. Beibl. 



LXXXII. 45 (1905). 

 Menispermum diversifolium, var. molle Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 



LV. 39 (1908). 

 Sinomenium diversifolium, var. cinereum Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 



255 (1910). 



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