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always 2 or sometimes 3 ovules. It also bears some resembrance to B. 

 xanthoxylon HASK. and B. WaUichiana, but differs from both in having 

 more sparely serrated leaves, and especially from the latter by its much 

 more rounded fruits. 



Berberis morrisonensis HAYATA (PI. X.) Materials for a Flora of Formosa 

 p. 25. Shrub, erect, many-branched, branches with teruate spines. Leaves 

 clustered coriaceous, ovately spathulate, rounded at the apex, aristately 

 mucronate or obtuse, spinulosely dentate on the margin, cnneate at the base, 

 sessile or shortly petiolate, 15 mm. long, 7 mm. broad. Berries 3-clustered 

 globosely ellipsoid, obtuse 011 both ends, reddish, 9 mm. long, 3-seeded ; 

 stigma small, sessile ; seeds crescent -shaped, 4 mm. long, smooth, scarlet, 

 peduncles li cm. long. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison. 



Near B. diclyophylla FRANCE. ; but differs from it in having 3-fasciculate 

 fruits which are much more rounded than those of FRANCHET'S species. 



4. Epimedium LINN. 



Epimedium sp. MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 18. Pe- 

 rennial herb. Radical leaves long petiolate, petioles 30-40 cm. long, trifolio- 

 late, petiolulate, petiolules 5 cm. long, shorter than the blades, nodes of 

 petiolules swollen, blades 8-10 cm. long, 7 cm. broad, ovately elliptical 

 acuminate at the apex, strongly oblique at the base, auriculate, cordate, 

 serrulate, (tseth setaceous) 8-10-nerved, glabrous, glaucous beneath. 



HAB. central parts of the island. 



5. Podophyllum LINN. 



Podophyllum pleianthum HANCE in Journ. Bot. (1883) p. 175 ; 



FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 33 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 17 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 19. 



HAB. Tamsui. 



DISTRIB. Southern China : Kwaugtung. 



