EHAMNE^E. 141 



As the specimen is very imperfect, the identification is rather con- 

 jectural. 



Rhamneee. 



Conspeetus of the Formosan Genera. 



(1) Scandent shrubs. Fruits dry, 1-celled, 1-seeded Ventttaga. 1 



Erect shrubs or trees. (2) 



(2) Fruits dry or fleshy drupes with one stone. (3) 

 Fruits dry or fleshy of 3 pyrenes. (4) 



Fruits subglobose, expanding in 



(3) Leaves prominently tliree- 

 nerved. 



rounded wing upwards Palmnis. 2 



Fruits carnose globose, not ex- 



panding in wings Zizyplius. 3 



Leaves piuninerved Berchemia. 4 



(4) Disk thin, lining the calyx-tube Ehamnus. 5 



Disk fleshy, filling the calyx-tube. (5) 



(5) Klirub spiuose, leaves and branches opposite Scojcrctia. 6 



Unarmed shrub, leaves alternate Coln.brina. 7 



1. Ventilago G.EKTN. 

 Dichotoiiious Key to the Formosan Species. 



(1) Leaves ovate or ovately lanceolate, longer than the other. .. V. leiocarpa. 

 Leaves very much smaller, oblong or obovate V. elcgans. 



Ventilago elegans HEMSL. Aim. Bot. IX. p. 151 ; HENUY List PI. 

 Formos. p. 27 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XII. p. 21 ; MATSUM. et 

 HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 85. 



HAB. Hiuan, Apes Hill, Baukinsiug. 



DISTRIB. An endemic plant. 



Ventilago leiocarpa BENTH. in Jouru. Linn. Soc. V. p. 77 ; BENTH. 

 Fl. Hougk. p. 67 ; LAWS, in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Lid. I. p. 631 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 125. 



