146 ON CUDRANIA TRILOBA AND ITS USES IN CHINA. 
emarginate. The growing shrub is easily recognised, notwith- 
standing this variety of foliage, but herbarium-specimens show 
other differences of texture and colour — are puzzling to any- 
one who looks at a series for the first tim 
ommon as this species is at Chefoo a se Shanghai, M. Debeaux, 
his has published in the ‘Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bor- 
tt himself » either. He quotes, however, in a supplement to his 
‘‘Florule de Tchéfou’’ Dr. Hance’s above-mentioned notice of Mr. 
Swinhoe’s ciecied: adding that in all the specimens of C. triloba 
in M. Franchet’s herbarium whic came from Kiangsou, the 
leaves are ‘obliqu ement ovales.” But it is difficult to see how 
e leaves even of any single specimen of this plant could be 
defined | in M. Debeaux’s sess Be rin any others equally simp 
I venture to add her description of this species somewhat 
fuller than that which ‘ee pate Se - the disposal of its eminent 
author enabled him to give origin 
Cuprania TRILOBA Hance in Journ, Bot. Agee. p. 49. — Species 
polymorpha, frutescens decum frutex v. arbuscula 15-20 
pedalis. Ramuli angulati v potas lontioallia seepe notati, pales 
v. fere glabri, spinis nolitariis axillaribus 8-12 lin. longis armati, 
in forma arborescente sepius inermes. Folia alterna, as oll. 
longa, medio 3-23 poll. lata, petiolo in forma frutescente 4-5 
lineali, in arborescente 1-1} pollicari, stipulis minutis; rotundata, 
interdum mucronata, v. elliptica nunc oot rotundata acuta nun 
utringue attenuata; integra v. obscure et irregulariter 1dVata, 
sepe distincte triloba, lobo intermedio icles obtuso v 
en ee 2) raessessaay, 3-4 lin. eeu Ne 2-4 lineali- 
thii s segmenta oblonga cucullata imbricata, 
Pils 2 (2 fam per anthesin lutescente-alba, soluta; fila- 
menta crassa subulata, basi 2 cu adnata, aoe erectis 
posse oe exsertis ; Ovarii rudimentum tenuissimum subul Fl. 
foem.: perianthii segmenta sage imbricata, post cat nat aucta 
carnosa ; stylus indivisus filiformis, longe exsertus. Fructus ruber, 
mori mole ; in pseudosyncarpio semina ates eae een gst peri 
ium globosum crustaceum stramineum, 14-2 li  eanekae, 
stylo interdum superstite. 
This plant has an economic interest specially on account i the 
use made of i it by the Chinese in feeding silkworms. In May, 1881, 
M. Brunat, a French gentleman, who had gone to the silk- Miele 
to purchase ¢ cocoons for the firm in which I was a partner, wrote to 
ai from Wu- et (Kiangsou Etec about the 
rumoured Senate nts of a scant supply of mulberry-leaves. He 
an 
they could be partly on leaves gathered from certain wild 
shrubs of the Poeun rats f He could not himself give a name 
