30 IMAGNOLIACE.E. 



8 mm. broad, lateral pinmc oiten pinnate 12 mm. long (including petiolules), 

 lateral pinnules pinnate, terminal pinnule simple. Cauline leaves 2, at the 

 base of branches, opposite, smaller, teruate or bi-ternately pinnate. Flowers 

 dichotoinously cymose, pedicels 8 mm. long. Sepals 5, ovately oblong, 4 mm. 

 long, obtuse at the apex. Petals ">, very short, nectariformed, stipitate, 1 mm. 

 long (including stalks), blades rounded .1 mm. long, obtuse and mucrouate, 

 with glandules at the base inside. Stamens 5, filaments 2.1- mm. long, com- 

 planate, anthers oblongly orbicular often incurved. Carpels 2, separated, 

 sessile, crescent -shaped, 3 mm. long, % mm. broad, style very short, - miih 

 long, stigma truncate. Follicles divaricate, elongate, 9 mm. long, 21 mm. 

 broad, connate at the base, truncate at the apex, greenish on the back, 

 yellowish on the face. Seeds nearly 10, globose, \ mm. in diameter, slightly 

 carinate on the back, yellowish brown, glabrous. 



HAD. Arizan. 



Near /. adiantifdium HOOK, et THOMS., but differs from the type in 

 having much smaller flowers and shorter leaves. 



Magnoliaeeae. 



Conspectus of the Formosan Genera. 



I I'l Erect shrubs or trees. (2) 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves exstipulate Kadsnro. 5 



(2) Perianth none Trochodcndron. 1 



Perianth exists. (3) 

 ('>} Stipules 0. Perianth double. Carpels in one whorl Illicium. 2 



Stipules conspicuous, convolute and sheathing the young foliage, 



deciduous. (4) 

 (4) Gynophore sessile Mayndia. 3 



G}-nophore stalked Michdla. 4 



1. Trochodendroti SIEC. et Zucc. 



Trochodendron aralioides SIEB. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. I. p. 83, tt. 39 et 

 40 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 140 ; FRANCE, et SAY AT. Eimrn. PL Jap. p. 19 ; 



