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Scandent, branches fuscsnt, wrinkled lengthwise, leuticellate, branchlets 

 divaricate. Leaves alternate petiolate, broaldy globose, 8 cm. long, 9 cm. 

 broad, rounded at the apex, shortly cuspidate, (tails 8 mm. long, obtuse,) 

 broadly truncate or roundly cordate at the base, margin remotely obscurely 

 serrate, entire near the base, chartaceous, petioles 24- cm. long, sulcate inside. 

 Capsules cyniose (cymes axillary, peduncles 2 cm. long, shortly tsruate) 

 subglobose (styles persistent,) 3-valvately dehiscent, valves osseous, flavescent 

 orbicular, shortly acute at the apex, crosswise wrinkled outside, seeds 2 in 

 each cell. Seeds covered by reddish arils, obliquely cylindrical, slightly 

 recurved, 4| mm. long, 2 mm. broad, testa fusco-nigricant, rugose, minutely 

 papillose, coriaceous. 



HAB. Southern Formosa. 



The present plant is near C. articiHatus, but differs in having more 

 rounded leaves and transversely wrinkled carpels when dried. The leaves 

 are nearly rounded or slightly cordate at the base, shortly acute or nearly 

 rounded at the apex, remotely serrulate on the margin, while those of (7. 

 articulates are nearly obovate, acute or rounded but never cordate at the 

 base. The carpels of the latter plant are not wrinkled but rather smooth 

 even when dried. 



3. Tripterygium HOOK. f. 



Tripterygium Wilfordii HOOK. f. in BENTH. et HOOK. Gen. Plant. I. 

 p. 368 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 206 ; FOKBES et HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. 

 I. p. 125 ; HENUY List PL Formos. p. 27 ; PALIBIN Conspect. Fl. Koresa 

 I. p. 54 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 85. 



Tripterygiuni Bullockii HANCE, in Journ. Bot. (1880) p. 259. 



HAB. Maruyama, Taiton Kelung. 



DISTHIB. Japan and China. 



Species imperfectly known to tne. 



Elaeodendron japonicum FRANCH. et SAVAT. MATSUM. et HAYATA 

 Enum. PL Formos. p. 84. 

 HAB. Kotosho. 



