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cent. Ovaries very numerous, minute, ellipsoid, obtuse at 

 apex, compressed laterally, glabrous, smooth, f mm, long; style 

 much exserted, ventral, erect and straight in the superior ones 

 but ascending and arcuate in the inferior, twice as long as the 

 ovary, angustately fusiform, subhj'aline and cellular (one la3'er) 

 with transverse delicate septa (cell-walls) surrounding the 

 centire ; stigma simple, not thick, obtu.se. Carpophore small, 

 about G mm. across, nutant, globose, sessele, thinly pubescent ; 

 dispersedly carpeliferous but naked at the base, succulent, 

 delicious, with adpressed persistent calyx at base. Achenes 



sessile, ovoid, obtuse at apex, slightly compressed laterally, 

 oblique in form, smooth, glabrous, Imra. long, slightly imbeded 

 in shallow pits of carpophore. Flov.'ers in March. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-shirohebiichigo (Island Fragaria). 



Hab. Formosa: Mt Ganzan (5. Nagasawal Oct. 30, 1905), 

 Mt. Niitaka (T. Kawakami and B. Hayatal Oct. 19, 1906), 

 Mt. Tozan (G. Nakahara I Nov. 1906), Mt. Ekitaizan (B. 

 Hayatal Aug. 9, 1908), Mt. Centr. {Ushinosuke Mori I March 

 1910). 



A good species, and the only representative of this genus in 

 Formosa. It is quite distinct from Fragaria vesca Linn. 



Lilium Miquelianum Makino in linuma's Somoku-Dzu- 

 setsu, ed. 3, I. (1907), p. 432, et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXIV. 

 (1910), p, 301 ; Grove, Lil. p. 110. (Fig. XXII.) " 



Lilium medeoloides Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. in Ann. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. III. (1867), p. 156; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV. 

 p. 236 (1871.), pro parte ; Elwes, Monogr. Lil. (1880), tab. 35 

 sinistr., non A. Gray. 



Nom. Jap. Chbsen-kasayuri (Corea Wheel Lily). 



Hab. Japan, rarely cultivated. 



This lily is not native of Japan. Lilium medeoloides A. 

 Gray, Bot. Jap. in Mem. Am. Acad. Art. a. Sc. n. s. VI. (1859), 

 p. 415 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 63, excl. Miq. 

 Prol. 320, is same species with L. avenaceum Fisch. bearing the 

 nutant flowers and the Japanese name of Kuruma-yuri (Wheel 



