STERCULIACE.E. 105 



Fl. Intl. HI. p. 139 ; BENTH. Fl. Austral. I. p. 235 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Tnd. 

 Fl. Sin. I. p. 91 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 22 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XV. p. 50 ; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. FL Lutch. p. 345 ; DIELS Fl. 

 Ceutr. Chin. p. 470 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. GO. 



Melodda concatenaia LINN. Sp. PL etl-2, p. 944. 



Melochia tmncata WILLD. Sp. PL III. p. 001. 



RicfUeia concatenate DC. Prodr. I. p. 492. 



Riedleia corcltorifolia DC. Prodr. L p. 491. 



Riedleia supina DC. Prodr. I. p. 491. 



HAB. Taihokn, Pachina, Takow, Mankinsho. 



DisTRiB. Common in Tropics. 



7. Waltheria LIMN. 



JJichotomous Key to the Formosan Species. 



(1) Leaves larger, densely villose, style pectinate at the apex . . . . W. indica. 



Leaves s nailer scarcely villose, style fhnbriate towards tlie apex 



W. Maliinoi. 



Waltheria indica LINN. Sp. PL ed-2, p. 941 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 493 ; 

 HANCE in Jonni. Linn. Sos. XII L p. 100 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl Sin. 

 I. p. 91 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 22 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XV. p. 50 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 01. 



Waltheria americana LINN. Sp. PL ed-2, p. 941 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 492 ; 

 BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 38. 



HAB. Tainan, Kisoko, Taihokn, Takow, Mankinsho. 



DISTRIB. Southern and eastern China. 



Waltheria Makinoi HAYATA in MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. 

 p. 01, t. 5. Shrub, branches slender, ferrngiueo-pnbescent. Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, stipulate, ovate, elliptical, base rounded, subcordate, 2-2.5 cm. long, 

 1.5-1.8 cm. broad, margin serrate, serras acute, tri-nerved, costas impressed 

 above, prominent beneath, densely villosely pubescent, subbicolored, petioles 

 5-0 mm. long, stipules very small, subulate. Flowers small, glomerate at 

 the axils, bracteate, bracts lanceolate, villose. Calyx campaunlate, 5-lobate, 



