NEW OK NOTEWORTHY PLANTS OP FORMOSA. 105 



New or noteworthy plants of Formosa. 



Magnoliacese. 



Illicium arborescens HAYATA sp. nov. Arborescens, truucus subrectus 

 12 m. altus, a medio sursum ramosus, ranmlis cinerascentibus (petiolis fus- 

 centibus) glaberrimis subangulatis, foliatis. Folia subopposita, petiolata, lan- 

 ceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, 10-8 cm. longa 24- cm.-2 cm. lata, apice acumi- 

 uata, ad summuna acuta, basi acuta, chartaceo-coriacea, margiue Integra, costis 

 supra impresses subttis elevatis, venis lateralibus supra tenuissimis, subtus 

 non visis, subtus patlida, opaca, petiolis 1 cm. longis, fuscentibus, supra 

 sulcatis, Floros terminales vel axil] ares, solitarii vel gemini, pedunculati, 

 pedunculis 1-2 cm. longis, bracteati, semiclausi, depresso-globosi, 8 mm. 

 longi, 10 mm. in diametro, rosei. Segmenta periantlni glabra crassiuscula, 

 12-15, margine ciliolata, extimis minimis, interioribus magnis, extimis late 

 reniforme cordatis 44; mm. latis, basi auriculato cordatis, vel semirotundatis 

 5 mm. longis 7 mm. latis, apice rotundatis basi contractis subcordatis vel 

 rotundatis, ad insertiouem 24j mm. latis, interioribus magnis rotundatis 

 8 mm. in diametro apice basique rotundatis, basi constrictis ad inser- 

 tionem 2 mrn. latis valde concavis, utrique glabris, intimis plus minus 

 angustioribus. Stamina co , 2-seriatim disposita 2-3 mm. longa, filamentis 

 complanatis, in latitudine variabillimis, antheris adnatis in forma variabilibus 

 apice truncatis, 14 mm. longis. Carpella 10-14, 1 -seriatim verticillata, latere 

 compressa, a latere visa basi ovata apice caudata, (partibus ovatis 2 mm. 

 longis 14; mm. latis, caudis 1 mm. vel 1] mm. longis apice extrorse recurvis), 

 in sectione cuneiformia, dorso obtuse costata, facie acuta, 1-ovulata, glabra. 

 Torus conicus ulti-a insertionem carpellorum productus, partibus productis 

 breve columiiaribus 1-2 mm, longis. 



HAB. Inter Karapin et Funkiko, leg. B. HAYATA et S. SASAKI, Jan. 

 1912. 



The nearest congener of this plant is I. inajm H. f. et T. (in HOOK f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 40), which is different from our species in having much 

 longer petioles, longer peduncles ; another plant resembling ours is I. Griffitftii 



