6 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



Smilax discotis Warburg in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 256 (1900). 



Smilax china Wright in J out. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 96 (in part) (1903). 

 Smilax ferox A. De CandoUe, Monog. Phaner. I. 102 (in part) (1878). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000-1300 m., 

 May 31, 1907 (No. 3231 ; large climber, flowers greenish; same locality, 

 woods, alt. 1600 m., May 10, 1907 (No. 3235; large climber, flowers 

 greenish); same locality, upland thickets, alt. 2300-2600 m.. May 19, 

 1907 (No. 3236; climber 2-3 m., flowers greenish); same locality, 

 thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 2, 1907 (No. 3239; climber 4 m., 

 flowers whitish) ; same locality, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 2, 1907 (No. 

 3240; climber 4-5 m., flowers greenish); north and south of Ichang, 

 thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., May 28, 1907 (No. 3232; climber 2-4 m., 

 flowers greenish yellow); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 1000-1300 m.. May 

 11, 1907 (No. 3237; clunber 2.6-4 m., flowers greenish yellow); same 

 locality, roadsides, alt. 1000-1300 m.. May 11, 1907 (No. 3238; clunber 

 3-5 m., flowers greenish yellow). Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, 

 thickets, alt. 1200-2000 m., July 1908 (No. 3243; climber 3 m., flowers 

 yellowish); west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600- 

 2000 m., July and October 1908 (No. 3244; climber 3 m., fruit blue- 

 black). Yunnan : Mengtsze, mountains north, alt, 2600 m., A. Henry 

 (No. 10566; large climber); shady situations amongst scrub in side 

 valley on the eastern flank of the Tali range, lat. 25° 40', alt. 2300- 

 3000 m., July and August 1906, G. Forrest (No. 4796; spinous shrub of 

 1-2.5 m., flowers brownish green); Lichiang valley, lat. 27° 15', alt. 

 2800 m.. May 1906, G. Forrest (No. 2180). 



The Chinese colloquial name of this species is "Hsao-chin-pa-tou." 



Smilax discotis, var. concolor, Norton, n. var. 



A typo recedit habitu robustiore, foliis subtus non glaucis, auriculis 

 stipularibus % petioli non excedentibus. 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1600 m., 

 June 1907 (No. 193, in part, type; climber 3-5 m.); same locality, 

 September 1907 (No. 193, in part; climber 3-5 m.); Changyang 

 Hsien, roadside thickets, alt. 1000-1300 m., October 1907 (No. 420; 

 climber 2.5 m., fruit black). 



Smilax micropoda A. De Candolle, var. reflexa Norton, n. var. 

 Smilax flaccida Warburg in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 259 (non Wright) (1900). 



