74 rOETULACE.E. 



Portulaca quadrifida LINN, var. formosana HAYATA Materials for a 

 Flora of Formosa p. 37. Herb fleshy, prostrate, stem incrassate, base 5 

 mm. in diameter, many-branched at the upper portion. Leaves alternate, 

 fleshy, ol>ovate, rounded at the apex, slightly narrowed to the base, 6-7 mm. 

 long, 3i mm. broad, pilose at the axils, hairs patent 2 mm. long. Flowers 

 solitary at the apex of the branchlets with 5-involncral leaves. Capsules 

 menibranaceous 2-J- mm. in diameter. fSeeds snbglobose, -} mm. in diameter, 

 laterally* compressed, mttricate. 



Portulaca quadrijfda HAYATA in MATSUM. et HAYATA Fnum. PI. Formos. 

 p. 39 (non LINN.). 



HAB. Kotosho, Coll. K. MIYAKE, Nov. 1899. 



Very nenr the type, from which it is distinguishable by its far loss 

 hairy form. 



Portulaca oleracea LTNN. Sp. PL ed-2 p. G38 ; DC. Prodr. III. ]>. 

 353; BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 127; THUNB. Fl. Jap. p. 192; Lorn. Fl. 

 Cochinch. ecl-WiLLix p. 359 ; WALP. Ann. II. p. 201; KOXB. Fl. Ind. II. 

 p. 462; SIEB. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. IV. pt.-2, p. 166; LEDEB. Fl. 

 Pioss. II. p. 145; BENTH. Fl. Austral. I. p. 169; MAXIM. Prim. Fl. 

 Amur. p. 113 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 375 ; FRANCH. et SAVAT. Enum. PI. 

 Jap. I. p. 53; DYER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 246 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 71 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 19 ; ITO et 

 MATSUM. Tent. Fl. Lutch. p. 317 ; PALIBIX Couspect. Fl Korere I. p. 44 ; 

 MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 38. 



HAB. Taihoku, Takow. 



DISTRIB. in tropical and temperate regions of the world. 



2, Tali mini ADANS. 



Talinum crassifolium WHJ.D. Sp. PL II. p. 862 ; MATRUM. et HAYATA 

 Enum. PL Formos. p. 39. 

 HAB. Pachiua, Taichu. 

 DI.STRIB. Introduced from tropical America. 



