242 E03ACEJE. 



p. 382 ; HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Incl. II. p. 344 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1059 ; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 253 ; DIELS Fl. Cent. Chin. p. 405 (var.); MATSOI. 

 et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 128. 



HAB. Pachina,Bi6ritsu, Tamsni, Tainan. 



DISTRIB. Japan, central and southern China and the Philippines. 



10, Ptjrus Lixx. 



Dichotomous Key to the Formosan Species. 



(1) Leaves simple. (2) 

 Leaves compound. (3) 



(2) Leaves roundly ovate shortly cuspidate, fruits small, 7 mm. in 



diameter P. Kawakamii . 



Leaves elongately ovate, elliptical acuminate or acute, fruits larger 

 depressingly globose, 31 cm. in diameter P. formosana. 



(3) Leaflets sharply serrulate, fruits usually 4-celled 



P. aucuparia var. randalensis. 



Leaflets less sharply serrulate, fruits 3-celled 



P. aucuparia var. trUocidwris. 



Pyrus aucuparia var. randaiensis HAYATA Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 98. Branches strong, ashy or dirk-pur pie -rubsscsut, cicatrices of 

 leaves transversely ring-like, lenticels globose. Leaves piunats, narrowly ellip- 

 tical in outline, 13 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, lateral pinnae S-9-juged, lower 

 and upper ones shorter, middle ones longer, pinnae sessile, lowest ones oblong, 

 2 cm. long, 12 mm. broad, middle ones oblong-narrowed 4| cm. long, 

 12 mm. broad, acuminate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, 

 obtuse on the upper side, longer in the lower side, roundly cordate, 

 costas impressed above, elevated beneath, lateral veins impressed above, 

 elevated beneath, hirsute beneath on the costas and veins, glabrous 011 

 both surfaces, pallid beneath, margin sharply serrulate, serrulas ascendent, 

 terminal piuua oblong-obovate, 3 cm. long, 13 mm. broad, interjuges 1 cm. 

 long, shortly stipellate, stipels subulate, rhaches winged, glabrous and silicate 

 above ferrugmeo-hirsute beneath, petioles 4 cm. long, glabrous above, winged, 



