162 ANAC ARDIACE3E. 



lateral branches divaricate, covered by ferrugineous hairs, bracts and brac- 

 teoles minute, scaly, pedicels 1-3 mm. long. Sepals broadly rounded, near- 

 ly 2 mm. broad, ciliolate on the margin. Petals 5, 3-larger ones broadly 

 rounded, 3^ mm. long as broad, 2-smaller ones 1 mm. long, narrowed, 2- 

 deutate at the apex, opposite the stamens. Stamens 2, filaments dilated, 2 

 mm. long. Staminodes 3, opposite larger petals, filaments very dilated. 

 Disk small, irregularly dentate. Ovary glabrous, globose, 2 mm. long 

 (including style) 2-celled. 



HA.B. Uraislia, South Cape. 



DISTRIB. Hongkong. 



Anacardiacese. 



Conspectus of Hie Formosan Genera. 



(1) Petals 0, calyx 5-parted, leaves alternate, compound Pialaria. 2 



Petals exist. (2) 



(2) Leaves simple. (3) 



Leaves compound Rhus. 1 



(3) Stamens 1-5 Mangifera. 3 



Stamens 10 BucJianania. 4 



1. JMtus LINN. 



Dichotomous Key to tJte Formosan Species. 



(1) Scandent shrubs. (2) 

 Trees. (3) 



(2) Fruits glabrous R. Toaicodendron. 



Fruits beset with minute bristles R. intermedia. 



(3) Leaflets serrate R. semi-alata. 



Leaflets entire R. succeJanea. 



Rhus intermedia HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 73. Radicaut or 

 voluble. Leaves tri-foliolate, nearly 30 mm. long (including petioles), 

 petioles 9-10 cm. long, slightly hairly, as long as terminal leaflets, lateral 



