(80) TENTAMES floej: lutchuensis. 347 



Formosa (Makino î), south-eastern China and India ; also in 

 tropical Africn, Anierica and the Malay Islands. 



T. procumbens, Forst. " Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austral, p. 3-3 "; 

 DC. Prodr. I, j). -j08 ; Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beecli. Voy. p. 60; 

 Hemsl. in Jonrii. ]jot. LSOO, p. 2 (non Penth. FI. Austral. I, p. 

 273, nec auct. alior., salteni pro maxima parte). 



T. crassifolia, .^olander, " Priin. FI. Pacif. p. 2-30," 



et in " Parkins. Drawings of Taliit. PI. t. -jl, iued."; 



Seemann, Fl. Vit. p. 26. 



T. Fahreana, Gaud. " Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 478, t. 102," 



fide Hemsl. I.e. 



AiiCHiPELAGO Yèma : insula Hatiruma [Tashirol Julio 



1887, frf.). 



DisïiUB. Malay Archipelago, AVestein Polynesia, Fritz- 

 roy Island, the Seychelles, Diego Garcia and the Keeling 



Islands. 



This is an interesting discovery. The whole plant densely 

 villous, the stem being procumbent, "with long-petioled rotuudate 

 or ovate obtusely 1- or tri-lobed crenate or crenate-dentate 

 leaves, nearly naked above, but densely pubescent and grayish 

 below. Fruits globose, l-l inch diam., with many densely 

 villous prickles, which are distinctly dilated at the base. 



Tashiro's specimen is closely allied to T. semUriloba, L., but 

 can be distinguished by its stem being softly pubescent and never 

 hispidulous, by its fruits provided with many long prickles, which 

 are dilated at the base, as well as densely villous and never 

 glabrous. 



T. annua, L. ]Mant. p. 73 ; DC. Prodr. I, p. 507 ; Micp 



