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Smilax herbacea, var. nipponica Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Peters- 

 bourg, XVII. 174 (1872). — A. De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. 1.52 (1878). — Wright 

 in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 98 (1903). 



Smilax nipponica Miquel in Versl. Med. Kon. Akad. Weten. ser. 2, II. 87 (1868) ; 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 150 (1868). 

 Korea: Quelpaert, "in sepibus Honguo," July 1908, Taquet (No. 1598); "in 

 sylvis Nokan," alt. 600 m., September 7, 1908, Taquet (No. 1601). 

 Smilax herbacea, var. oblonga Wright. See p. 1. 

 Smilax herbacea with its many forms extending over temperate North America 

 and Eastern Asia needs a careful revision, but the number of good specimens in the 

 larger herbaria in this country is still very inadequate. The open land and the forest 

 forms of the same variety often look so different that the collector assumes them to 

 be entirely different species. 



Sect. II. COILANTHUS A. De C. 



3. Smilax riparia A. De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. I. 55 (1878). — Wright in 

 Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 100 (1903). 



Central Fokien : Dunn's Exped., April- June 1905 (Hongk. Herb. Nos. 3570, 

 3576). 



De Candolle described this species as herbaceous; the above numbers were partly 

 identified on the original label as S. herbacea, and a similar specimen by Wright in 

 the U. S. Nat. Mus. is labeled S. consanguinea, a supposed sjoionym of S. herbacea ; 

 yet all the specimens seen have perennial shoots from which the apparently her- 

 baceous growth arises. The flowers in this Wright specimen reveal the Coilanthus 

 affinities of this species. 



4. Smilax hypoglauca Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 369 (1861). — A. De Candolle, 

 Monog. Phaner. I. 61 (1878). — Wright in Jour. Unn. Soc. XXXVI. 98 (1903). 



Yunnan : Szemao, mountains south, alt. 1500 m., A. Henry (Noa. 12115, 12115"; 

 climber; black fruit). Hongkong: January 19, 1893, C. Ford. 



5. Smilax glabra Roxburgh. See p. 1. 



6. Smilax trigona Warburg in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 258 (1900). 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, exposed mountains, alt. 1800 m., A. Henry (No. 9330; 

 large climber) ; same locality, rocky mountains, alt. 1800 m., A. Henry (No. 

 9330"; large chmber, reddish flowers). 



7. Smilax microphylla Wright. See p. 2. 



Sect. III. EUSMILAX A. De C. 



8. Smilax Sieboldii Miquel in Versl. Med. Kon. Akad. Weten. ser. 2, II. 87 

 (1868); in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 150 (1868). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. 

 Sci. St. Petersbourg, XVII. 169 (1872); in Mel. Biol. VIII. 406 (1872). — A. De 

 Candolle, Monog. Phaner. I. 48 (1878). — Wright in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 

 100 (1903). 



Korea: Seoul, September 21-24 1905, J. G. Jack. Korean Archipelago: 

 Quelpaert, "in sepibus Gylungen (?)," June 11, 1910, Taquet (No. 4061; same 

 island, " in sylvis Nokayi," July 1908, Taquet (Nos. 1602, 1603); same island, " in 

 sepibus Hallaisan," June 1909, Taquet (Nos. 3303, 3304, 3305). 



Smilax Sieboldii and S. scobinicaulis Wright are very closely related to Smilax 

 hispida Muhlenberg and have been removed from Nemexia to their proper place in 

 Eu^milax. 



