70 CAliYOPHYLLE.E. 



Formosa p. 35. Herb prostrate, very small ; steins slender sparingly 

 hirsute. Leaves opposite, petiolate, smaller, broadly rhomboid, 5-6 mm. 

 long, 7 mm. broad, obtuse and aristate at the apex broadly trun- 

 cate and shortly attenuate at the base, margin upwards ciliate, glabrous 

 below (except costa), petioles 6 mm. long, complanate. Flowers nearly 

 9 mm. long, solitary at the axils of the leaves, long pedunculate, 

 peduncles nearly 5 cm. long, hirsute. Sepals 5, lanceolate, 7 mm. long, 2 

 mm. broad, seal}", tri-ueived, acuminate at the apex, sparingly hirsute ou 

 the back and at the apex. Petals 5, obovately spathulate, 12 mm. long, 4} 

 mm. broad, 2-lobate at the apex, (lobes apex rounded, 2} mm. long, 2 mm. 

 broad, sinus obtuse), attenuately cunente, clawed. Stimens 10. Ovary ovoid, 



2 mm. long, apex truncate, slightly elevate. Styles 3, erect or recurved, 



3 mm. long. 



HAB. Arizau. 



Cerastium trigynum VILL. var. morrisoneise HAYATA Materials for 

 a Flora of Formos. p. 36. Herb diffused or csespitose, glandulously pubescent, at 

 last glabrous. Leaves often remote, sometimes approximate linear-lanceolate or 

 spathulate-acuminate, base sometimes attenuate, dilated, half -embracing the 

 stem, apex calloso-acute or aristately acute, 1-2 cm. long, 2-2-} mm. broad. 

 Cymes terminal, some 1-flowered, some tri-flowered, bracteate, bracts scaly, 

 pedicels 2-1} cm. long, glaiidulously pubescent. Sepals 5, lanceolate 7 mm. 

 long, margin scaly, outside glandulosi (-pubescent, inside glabrous. Petals 5, 

 oblauceolate, 13 mm. long, 2-lobed at the apex, (lobes oblong, obtuse, 6 mm. 

 long), narrowed at the base. Stamens 10, filaments as half long as petals. 

 2-glaiiduliferous at the base of the filaments which are opposite the sepals. 

 Ovary ovoid, 2 mm. long, 1-celled, manj^-ovuled. Styles 5, opposite the sepal-, 

 longer than ovary, 3 mm. long. Capsules cyliudraceous 7 mm. long, 2|- mm. 

 broad, erect, dehiscent in 10-teeth at the apex, teeth obtuse, truncate. Seeds 

 sub reniforme:! and globose, 1 mm. long, laterally more or less compressed 

 rugose on the back. 



Cerastium mornsonense HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 57. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison. 



