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Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600 m., June and 

 September 1907 (No. 336; climber 3-6 m,, leaves very variable, fruit 

 blue-black); north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 1000-1300 m., 

 June and October 1907 (No. 617, in part; climber 6 m., fruit blue- 

 black); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., June 1907 (No. 617, 

 in part) ; Nanto, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1203) ; without locality, 

 July 1900 and 1901 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 1483, 2267). 



A very common plant in western Hupeh up to an altitude of 1500 m., and less 

 common in western Szech'uan. The leaves are extraordinarily variable and in 

 warm localities persist well into the late winter. The bark is smooth and pale 

 green even on quite old shoots. A colloquial name for this climber is " Ching- 

 teng." 



COCCULUS DC. 



Cocculus trilobus De Candolle, Syst. I. 522 (1818) ; Prodr. I. 98 

 (1824). — Diels in Engler, Pfianzenr. IV.-94, 232, fig. 78 a-1 (1910). 



Menispermum orbiculatum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 194 (non Linnaeus) (1784). . 



Menispermum trilohum Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 194 (1784). 



Cocculus Thunhergii De Candolle, Syst. I. 524 (1818); Prodr.l. 98 (1824). — 



Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 10; Prol. Fl. Jap. 198 (1867). — 



Hance in Jour. Linn. Soc. XIII. 99 (1873). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. 



Mus. Paris, ser. 2, V. 176 {PI. David. I. 21) (1882). — Maximowicz in Bull. 



Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 3, XXIX. 70 (1883); in Mel. Biol. XI. 651 



(1883). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 28 (1886). — Diels in Bot. 



Jahrb. XXIX. 345 (1900). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 



XVII. 274 (1910). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform, add. 



ser. X. 31 {Fl. Kwangtung & Hongkong) (1912). 

 Cocculus cynanchoides Presl, Reliq. Haenk. II. 79 (1830). 

 Nephroica caudata Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 26 (nomen 



nudum) (1867); Contrib. Bot. III. 263 (1871). 

 Nephroica Thunbergii Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 26 (1867) 



Contrib. Bot. III. 263 (1871). 

 Nephroica dilatata Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 26 (1867) 



Contrib. Bot. III. 264 (1871). 

 Nephroica triloba Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 26 (1867) 



Contrib. Bot. III. 266 (1871). 

 Nephroica cynanchoides Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 26 (1867) 



Contrib. Bot. III. 267 (1871). 

 Nephroica pijcnantha Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 26 (nomen 



nudum) (1867); Contrib. Bot. III. 268 (1871). 

 Holopeira fecunda Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XIX. 29 (1867); 



Contrib. Bot. III. 275 (1871). 

 Cebatha orbiculata O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 9 (1891). — Schneider III. Handb. 



Laubholzk. I. 327, fig. 205 k-n (1905). 

 Cocculus orbiculatus Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 806 (1906). 

 Dioscorea japonica Pavolini in Nuov. Giorn, Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 441 (non 



Thunberg) (1908). 



