CELASTRINE/E. 135 



HAB. Bioritsu : Rokujotaisan. 



Near Ilex embetioides HOOK. f. which differs from the present plant in 

 the leaves, which are more attenuate or cuspidate towards the apex. The 

 leaves . of this plant are acute at the apex, but neither attenuate nor 

 cuspidate. 



Ilex taiwaniana HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 58. 

 Branches ashy, glabrous. Leaves alternate, ovate, obtusely acute, obliquely 

 acute at the base, mucronately serrate, distinctly venose on both sides, 

 chartaceo-meinbranaceous. Flowers 3-5-clustered at the axils, clusters ped- 

 unculate, peduncles 5 mm. long. Sepals 5, rounded, 1 mm. long, petals 5, 

 rotundate, 2 mm. long ; stamens 5, iutrorse, rudiment of the ovary convex. 

 Drupes globose, 4 mm. long, long pedunculate, (peduncles 2 cm. loug\ 10- 

 sulcate with 5 stones. 



HAB. Kwashoto. 



species imperfectly Jtnoirn to me. 



Ilex Mertensii MAXIM, var. formosae L<ES.; HAYATA Materials for a 

 Flora of Formosa p. 56. 



HAB. South Cape, Dr. A. HENRY. 



I have seen the plant at Kew. Tt is not yet represented in the Herbarium 

 at Tokyo. 



Ilex ardisioides L<ES. in "Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. LXXVIII.-I. (1901) p. 

 359 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 53. 



HAB. South Cape, Dr. A. HENRY ! 



I have seen the plant at Kew ; it is not yet represented in the Herba- 

 rium at Tokyo. 



Celastrinese. 



Conspectus of the Formosan Genera. 



(1) Fruits dehiscent. (2) 



Fruits indehiscent. Ovary imperfectly 3-celled ; fruits 1-celled, 



broadly 3-winged Tripterygium. 3 



