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8 mm. long, glabrous ; blades of the leaves 10 cm. loug, 5.2 cm. broad ; 

 stipules spiny, straight, very much shorter than the petioles, but sometimes 

 nearly equally long. Flowers 4-6-clustered, clusters superaxillary ; pedicels 

 nearly glabrous, G mm. long. Sepals 4, distinct, imbricate, ovately elliptical, 

 acute, glabrescent 011 both sides, tomentose inside and also on the margin. 

 Petals 4, white, imbricate, linear- oblong, obtuse, tomeutose on the margin 

 towards the apex, or glabrescent, 8-13 mm. long, 4 mm. broad. Stamens 

 12-16, thread like, white, 26-30 mm. long, anthers oblong, yellowish glabrous. 

 Ovary subglobose, glabrous, long stalked (stalks 19 mm. long), 1-celled, 

 placentas 4, ovules numerous ; stigma sessile. 



This is very near C. micrantha from which it is distinguishable only 

 in the venation of the leaves. 



HAB. Takow, Koshuu, Fuko, Boryo, Eioritsu, Hokko. 



DISTEIB. An endemic plant. 



5. Cratceva LINN. 



Crataeva religiosa FORST. ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 243 ; HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. I. p. 172 ; OLIV. Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 99 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. 

 Sin. I. p. 51 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 18 ; Fro et MATSUIVT. Tent. Fl. 

 Lutch. p. 305 ; MAT.SUM. et HAY ATA Euum. PI. Formos. p. 27. 



Copparls falcata LOUR. Fl. Cocliinch. ed-WiLLD. p. 405. 



Capparis macjna LOUR. Fl. Cocliinch. ed-WiLLD. p. 405. 



Cratceva Adansonii DC. Prodi 1 . I. p. 243. 



Cratceva falcata DC. Prodr. I. p. 243. 



Cratceva Iccta DC. Prodr. I. p. 243. 



Cratceva magna DC. Prodr. I. p. 243. 



Cratceva trifoliata ROXB. Fl. Ind. II. p. 571. 



HAB. Keluug, Pachina, Ako. 



DISTRIB. Cliina, India, tropical Africa. 



