ON CUDRANIA TRILOBA AND ITS USES IN CHINA, 145 
upper plane 4 as long, ovate, cuspidate, much imbricated. Spikes 
1 lin. dia: 
copious, square, }-} in. long, ra am.; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled. geen > monospora Spring Mon 
S. rugulosa Cesati; Dill. Muse. t. 66, fig. 8. Habit more 
85; . 
robust, ‘the branches more compound, Abs upper part of the stem 
etd the the root-fibres usually | confined to the nodes of the lower 
half. Leaves bright green, 4-4 in. long. — Var. 8S. pallida Spring 
Mon. ii. 116; Lyeopoivn pallidum H. & G. Leaves shorter, 
more ovate, pale gr 
eaten Hmmala fie and Mountains of the Indian Penin- 
sula and Ceylon; Birma and the Malay Isles; and extending to 
South China, San Cristaiek J. G. Veitch! and Vanéecolla, C. Moore! 
cannot separate by any definite character S. biformis A. Br. 
(Philippines, Goetap 2016!). L. prelongum H. & G. is a form with 
long flaccid trailing stems, flagellate at the end, and all the 
: . a dw 
hie leaves between those of the type and var. pallida, Spring’s 
nin plant, mentioned under pallida, is S. boninensis Baker. Var. 
Hamilton Baker (S. semicordata J. Scott Calc. List 63, non Spring) 
is a form of monospora with oe dimorphous bracts included by 
Wallich under the same number as Spring’s plan 
(To be sina 
ON CUDRANIA TRILOBA Hance, AND ITS USES 
IN CHINA. 
By Francis Buacxwett Forszs, F.L.S. 
Dr. Hance first described Cudrania triloba in the ‘ Journal of 
Botany,’ 1868, p. 49, from a = wane gathered in the interior of 
Shantung Provinee, North C and amended his eee 
later (Journ. Bot. 1876, p 365), ‘sfide Mr. Swinhoe had sen 
Specimens from Chefoo, aise 3 in Shantung. In 1877 I myself found 
the plant on the Féng-wang Hills, near Shanghai (Kiangsou Pro- 
vince), and Dr. Hance made the a, note on one of the 
specimens which he ie determined for «« An unfortunate 
Specific name, as the foliage seems very Vv. viable.” 
This remark is abundantly justified by: the cr specimens 
which I have since then collected at various paves in in the Shanghai 
district, as well as at Chefoo. The typical form is distinctly trilobate, 
with the central lobe sometimes twice as long as the lateral ones ; 
but frequently unlobed leaves of varied outlines are also found on 
e same specimen. As far as I have been able to observe, the 
towards larger aa entire Laren with at the most an indistinct or 
irregular lobing, their general form comprising many variations 
between pbldage ‘and lanceolate, or even (more rarely) obovate and 
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