SABIACE.E. 161 



2. Jtteliosma BLUME. 

 Dicliotomous Key to tlte Formosan Species. 



(1) Leaves simple. (2) 



Leaves compound M. rhoifolia. 



(2) Leaves lanceolate or obkmg, acuminate on both ends, elougately petioled, 



flowers more laxly arranged on the compound raceme 



M. squamidata. 



Leaves oblanceolate, petioles shorter, flowers much denser. . . M. ricjida. 



Meliosma rhoifolia MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. VI. p. 262; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Ind. Fl Sin. I. p. 140; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 29; MATSUM. 

 et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 98. 



HAB. Tamsui. 



DISTRIB. An endemic plant. 



Meliosma rigida SIEB. et Zucc. ; MAXIM, in ENGL. Bot. Jahrb. VI. p. 

 60 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 145 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 

 29 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 99. 



Mdiosma pwigens HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. H. p. 4. 



HAB. Keluug. 



DISTRIB. Japan, Himalaya. 



Meliosma squamulata HANCE in Journ. Bot. (1876) p. 364; FORBES 

 et HEMSL. Ind. FL Sin. T. p. 146 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 29 ; MATSUM. 

 et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 99 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa, p. 71. 



Arbour, branches ciueraseent, more or less lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves 

 simple, long petiolate, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 10-12 cm. long, 3|- 

 4| cm. broad, acuminate or caudate at the apex, attenuate at the base, quite 

 glabrous and polished above, pallid or glaucous beneath, under microscope 

 minutely lepedote and pubescent, primary veins arcuate, anastomosing at the 

 extremities, petioles nearly 7 -8 cm. long. Flowers white, racemosely panicu- 

 late. Panicles erect, 15 cm. long, 5 cm. broad, branches slender, 5-6 cm. long, 



