(4) TEXTAMEX FLOE.E LUTCHUENSIS. 271 



25 Majo 1895, flor.) ; insula Irabu (T. Itö, n. 1207, 17 Aui.^ 

 1S04, flor.). 



Archipelago Ykma : insula Kuru-sliima (ex Tasliiro). 



J^iSTRiB. China. 

 The leaves become dark brown after desiccEîtion. 



C. Tashiroi, Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XII (1888) p. 713. 



Archipelago Y lm a {Tashiroi Aug. [Julio] 1887, flor. 

 et fructif). 



Insula A^iami-Oshima (Tashiroi Sept. 1887, flor.). 



DiSTRiB. An endemic species. 



Stem scandent, smooth, striate. Leaves pinnate, segments 

 3 (?) or 5,5-10 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, smooth, 5-7-nerved, 

 ovate, subcordate, acute or obtuse, sometimes emarginate ; 

 petiole twining, slender, 8-11 cm. long. Flowers axillary, 

 single ; peduncle slender, nearly glabrous, about 7-9 cm. 

 long, with a pair of small spathulate bracts at about i 

 from the base. Sepals spreading, ovate, tomentose. Stamens 

 numerous, about half the length of the sepals, filaments 

 glabrous, anthers linear. Carpels numerous. Achenes 

 terminating in long feathery awns. 



C. Meyeniana, AYalp. in '' Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. XIX, 

 Suppl. 1 (1843) p. 297," et Eepert. V, p. 3 ; Benth. Fl Hongk. 

 p. 6 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX (1887) p. 597 ; Forbes et Hemsl. 

 Ind. Fl. Sin. I, p. 5; Henry, List PI. Formos. p. 14. 

 C. oreophila, Hance, in Walp. Ann. II, p. 3. 

 LrTCiir ( Wright ex Forbes et Hemsley, H. Xahogawa ! 

 flor., Maisumura, 1897, flor.). 



Insula Amami-( )shima : inter Naze et Yamatohama 



