中國之防已科植物植物

On the Menispermaceous Plants of China

The object of the present paper is to enumerate the known species of the Menispermaceae of China as complete as possible and to draw a reasonable conclusion regarding the phytogeography of that country based on the distribution of the Menispermaceous plants. Up to the present we have but very few publications really treating the family Menispermaceae of China except some minor reports contributed from time.to time listing the procurment of specimens or informing of localities from where these plants could be acquired. In 1886, Forbes and Hemsley, in their research entitled ''Index Flora Sinensis, I'' (in Journ. Linn. Soc. 23: 28-30), recorded 10 species belonging to 7 genera, viz., 1 species of Limacia, 3 of Cocculus, 1 of Pericampylus, 1 of Menispermum, 1 of Cyclea, 2 of Stephania, and 1 species of Fibraurea.