MENISPERMACEAE. — STEPHANIA 389 



Kiangsi : Kuling, alt. 1300 m., abundant, July 28, 1907 (No. 1539; 

 climber 3 m., flowers white). Western Hupeh : north and south of 

 Ichang, side of streams, alt. 300-1000 m., abundant, June 1907 (No. 

 2284; cHmber 2-3 m.); without locahty, June and July 1900 and 

 August 1901 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 1201, 1429, 2561); without locality, 

 A. Henry (No. 3640). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. 

 Macgregor. Shantung: Tsingtau, 1901, Zimmerman (No. 216). 

 Korea: Seoul, September 1905, /. G. Jack; Quelpaert, July 1908 and 

 August and September 1909, Taquet (Nos. 542, 543, 2600, 2597, 

 2598). 



This very variable plant is abundant in western Hupeh and in Szech'uan up 

 to 1000 m. altitude, where it is colloquially known as the " Hsiao Ching-teng." 

 Many of the forms look very distinct in foliage but the leaves are so inconstant in 

 shape, size and degree of pubescence that it is useless to attempt to distinguish 

 between them. 



DIPLOCLISIA Miers. 



Diploclisia affinis Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 227 (1910). 



Cocculus affinis OHver in Hooker's Icon. XVIII. t. 1760 (18S8). — Diels in 

 Bat. Jahrb. XXIX. 345 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, rocky places, not common, alt. 

 1000 m.. May 8, 1907 (No. 2286, in part; climber 3 m., flowers yellow); 

 Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 600-1000 m., June 6, 1907 (No. 2286, in part; 

 climber 3 m., fruit blue-black); without locality, May 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 822). Fokien: without locality, Dunn's Exped., 1905 

 (Herb. Bot. Gard. Hongkong, No. 2336). 



STEPHANIA Lour. 



Stephania Delavayi Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 275 (1910). 



Kiangsi: plain around Kiukiang, alt. 100 m., July 27, 1907 (No. 

 1541; climber 3 m., flowers greenish). Western Hupeh: without 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 1664). 



Common by the roadsides in the vicinity of the lower Yangtsze river. 



Stephania japonica Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, XVni. 

 14 (1866); Contrib. Bot. 111. 213 (1871). — O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. I. 9 

 (pro parte) (1891). — Diels in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-94, 277 (1910). 



Menispermum japonicumThnnhcTg, Fl. Jap. 193 {178i). —Lamarck, E?icycl. 

 M6th. Bot. IV. 96 (1797). 



