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7. Thladiantha BUNGE. 

 Key to the Fomiosan Specie*. 



( 1 ) Loaves ovate deeply cordate, scabrously dotted with white points, re- 

 motely mucrouately serrulate on the margin T. /!//<'/"/. 



Leaves more or less lobate or obscurely grossly dentate. (2) 

 ( 2 ) Leaves softly tomentose, obscurely dentate or simply mucronately re- 

 motely serrate T. formomna. 



Leaves beset Avith scabrous hairs, lobate T. taiwaniana. 



Thladiantha formosana HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 100. Herb, 

 scandent and voluble, branchlets very slender sulcate, long hairy, tendrils 2- 

 parted. Leaves long ])etioled, petioles as long as blades, or shorter, pilose, 

 blades thick, membranaceous, angular, roundly cordate or ovately cordate 

 10 cm. long 7 cm. broad, acute acuminate, margin minutely remotely denti- 

 culate, scabrid above, villosely pubescent beneath. Male flowers puberulous, 

 racemose, racemes long 2-3-times longer than petioles, bracts small, deciduous. 

 Calyx-tube short broadly campanulate, lobes ovately lanceolate 5 mm. long. 

 Petals patent ovately lanceolate 11 mm. long. Stamens 5, equal, anthers 1- 

 celled straight, filaments free, lludiment of ovary globose. Appendicles a short 

 petaloid obtuse. 



HAD. Tosan, Morrison. 



Very much resembles T. iin<lijlora HEMSL., but differs from it in having 

 peduncled racemes and smaller flowers Avhich are as half as those of the al- 

 lied species. 



DLSTRIB. An allied species T. uudijloro, HI-:ML. occurs in Central China. 



Thladiantha punctata HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 

 Ill), and Ic. PI. Formos. Fasc. I. PI. XXXVII. Scandent, stems glabrous, 

 striate, internodes 8 cm. long. Leaves alternate petiolate, oblongo- 

 cordate or ovate, 12 cm. long, 7i cm. broad, cordately reniformed at the 

 base, 2^ cm. long below the base, the basal, sinus ovate acute, margin 

 remotely mucronately serrate, albo-puuctate abovts very scabrous, but 

 hispid on the costa beneath, otherwise glabrous, trinerved, lateral ner\r , 



