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Mouogr. I. 45 (1878); Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PL III, 763 (1883); 

 Engler in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. II Abt. 5, 88 (1888) ; 

 Koehne, Deutsche Dendrol. 59 fig'. 21 (1893) ; Krause in Engler, 

 Pflanzenfam. 2 Anfl. 15 a, 382 fig. 159-161 (1930), pro parte. 



Smilax aspera Dioscorides, liber IV Caput. CXXXV (1518) ; 

 Dodoens, Nieuv. Herb. 395 fig. (1578) ; Clusius, Rar. PI. Hist. 

 I, 112 figs. (1601). 

 Nemexia Rafinesque, Neogenyt. 3(1825), abscme charac. ; Med. 



Flora U.S. II, 264 (1830). 

 Parillax Rafinesque, Med. Flora U.S. II, 264 (1830). 

 Coprosmanthus Kunth, Enum. PL V, 263 (1850). 

 Pleiosmilax Seemann in Jonrn. Bot. VI, 193 t. 81 (1868). 

 Rhizomata perennia lignosa vel carnosa repentia. Caulis sympodialis 

 lignosus vel herbaeeus aeuleatus vel inermis. Petioli alati canaliculati 

 apice bieirrhosi. Folia 3-9 nervia basi stipitata vel subsessilia cum 

 petiolo articulata vel inarticulata. Flores dioici, segmentis perigonii 6 

 liberis, biserialibus. Stamina in floribus masculis 6 segmentis perigonii 

 opposita libera hypogyna, antheris subunilocularibus, in floribus fsemineis 

 vel staminodia parva filiformia. Pistillum in floribus masculis 0, in 

 floribus faemineis bene evolutum, loculis ovarii 3, 1-2 ovulatis. Stigmata 

 3 sessilia divergentia. Fructus carnosus vel baccatus, ruber vel flavus 

 vel niger. 



Species circa 320 in Asia, Africa, America bor. et austr., Polynesia 

 distributee. Inter eas 5 in Korea nascent, qua? in sectionibus 2 

 dividuendffi. 



" Caulis animus herbaeeus. Folia petiolo inarticulata. Fructus 



baccatus niger Smilax Sect. Coprosmanthus 



• Caulis perennis lignosus. Folia petiolo articulata. Fructus 



carnosus vel baccatus ruber, flavus vel niger 



Smilax Sect. Eusmilax 



I. Plantaa Herbaceas. 



Smilax Sect. Coprosmanthus Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America II, 

 303 (1843). 



