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way down to the base, valves entire Seods compressedly globose, shortly 

 leaked at the apex, recurved, face arcuately reticulate. 



HAB. Arizan. 



Near Stellar ia media LINN, but differs from it in having extremely 

 small flowers. 



Stellaria aquatica Scor. ; BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 21 ; BAKER et S. 

 MOORE in Jouru. Linn. 802. XVII. p. 380 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. 

 I. p. G7 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin. p. 319 ; MATSU.M. et HAYATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 36. 



Cerasllum aquaticnm LINX. Sp. PI. ed-2 p. 629. 



Larbrea aquatica SER in DC. Prodr. I. p. 395. 



Myosoton aqna'icum, MCENCH. ; FRANOIIET PL David, p. 53. 



HAB. Shintiku, Taihoku. 



DISTRIB. Widely diffused in temperate regions. 



Portulaceae. 



Conspectus of the Formosan Genera. 



(1) Ovary half-adnate to the calyx Portulaca. 1 



Ovary free. Talinum. 2 



1. Portulaca LINN. 



Dlcltotomom Key to tie Formosan Species. 



(1) Leaves lanceolate Portulaca pilosa var. 



Leaves obovate or obovately spathulate (2). 



(2) Distinctly pilose at the axils of the leaves P. quad'rifida var. 



formosana. 

 Not at all pilose at the axils of the leaves P. cleracea. 



Portulaca pilosa LINN. var. MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. 

 p. 38. 



HAB. Taihoku. 

 DISTRIB. 



