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membranaceous, nerves distinct, petioled, petioles 6 cm. long. Panicles 15 cm. 

 long, loosely floAvered ; flowers polygamous. Calyx campanula te, 5-lobed, 

 lobes lanceolate, hairy. Fl. J : stamiual column shorter than the calyx, declin- 

 ing, anthers sessile on the outside of the very short lobes, forming a globular 

 terminal head. Fl. .<: ovary stalked, 4-lobed, with anthers at its base, style 

 declining, stigma 4-lobed, tomentose. Capsules fleshy, leather-like, thick, 

 ovate, beaked, sessile, 5-6 cm. long, bright scarlet slightly velvety. The plant 

 is not indigenous to Formosa, but comes from the opposite continent and 

 is found only in cultivation. 



The present Sferculia is near 8. lanceolata CAY. but differs from it in 

 ' the calyx with lanceolate lobes. 



Sterculia platanifolia LINN. f. ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 483 ; BENTH. Fl. 

 Hongk. p. 30 ; Kurz in .Touru. Bot. (1873) p. 193 ; FIIANCH. et SAV. Enum. 

 PL Jap. I. p. 65 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 90 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. 

 Jap. p. 250; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 22; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. 

 Lutch. p. 343 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 58. 



Sterculia tomenfosa THUNB. Ic. PL Jap. Decas. 1Y. t. 8. 



Sterculia pyriformis BUNGE ; WALP. Piep. I. p. 335. 



Hibiscus simplex LINN. Sp. PL ed-2, p. 977. 



Firmiana platanifolia SCHOTT ; WALP. Rep. V. p. 104. 



HAB. Tamsui, South Cape, Tappausha. 



DISTRIB. Japan and China. 



2, Heritiera AIT. 



Heritiera littoralis AIT. Hort. Kew. p. 546," et ed-2. V. p. 339 ; 

 DC. Prodr. I. p. 484 ; BENTH. Fl. Hoiigk. p. 36, et FL Austral. I. p. 231 ; 

 MAXIM, in ENGL. Bot. Jahrb VI. p. 61 ; ROXB. FL Ind. III. p. 142 ; MIQ. 

 FL Ind. Bat. I. pt-2, p. 179 ; MAST, in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 362 ; 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 90 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XV. p. 53 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 22 ; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. 

 Lutch. p. 343 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 59. 



HAB. Tainan, Kelung, South Cape. 



