MALVACEAE. 101 



OBSEUV. Leaves cordate oblong, acute or abruptly acute, entire, glabrous, 

 13 cm. long, 10 cm. broad, long petiolate, petioles 10 cm. long ; flowers in my 

 specimen subterminal, solitary, pedunculate. New to tlie Formosan flora. 



9. Gossypium LINN. 



Dichotomous Key to the Formosan Species. 



(1) Bracts slightly dentate or entire Gossypium Nanldny. 



Bracts laciniate 011 the margin. G. lierbacewm. 



Gossypium herbaceum LINN. Sp. PI. ed-2, p. 975 ; Louu. Fl. Coch- 

 inch. ed-WiLLD. p. 505 ; THUNB. Fl. Jap. p. 271 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 450 ; 

 MAST, in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. I. p. 346 ; WIGHT Ic. PI. Ind. Or. tt. 

 et 11 ; LEDEB. Fl. Pioss. I. p. 438 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Iiid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 88 ; HENKY List PI. Formos. p. 21 ; Pro et MATSUM. Tent, FL Lutcli. p. 

 343 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 57. 



Gossypium rel'ujiosum HoxB. Fl. Ind. III. p. 185. 



Gossypium imUcum LAM. ; DC. Prodr. 1. p. 456 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. pt-2, p. 

 162 ; MIQ. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 207 ; FKANCH. et SAYAT. Enum. PL Jap. 1. p. 65. 



HAB. Shizangan, Kaisa. 



DISTRIB. Cultivated everywhere. 



Gossypyium Nanking MYEII, HAY ATA Materials for a Flora of For- 

 mosa p. 48. 

 HAB. Nanto : Nankokei. 



DISTTJB. 



I am following Sir GEORGE WATT'S determination who has most 

 cordially examined the plant at my request. 



10. Bombax LINN. 



Bombax malabaricum DC. Prodr. I. p. 479 ; MAST, in HOOK. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. I. p. 349 ; FOUBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 89 ; HENKY List 

 PL Formos. p. 21 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 58. 



HAB. Shintiku, Tainan, Takow. 



B. Tropical Asia and America. 



