FLOEA MONT.VNA FORMOSA 193 



cm. longa. Flores Ç brevissime stipitati, circa stipites graciles 

 spaclicellorum clavato-capitatorum clispositi, stylis gracillimis quam 

 ovario 3-plo longioribus. Planta J gracilis circ. 14 cm. alta. 

 Peclunculiis fere per totam partem bracteatus, bracteis suboppositis. 

 Inflorescentia incrassata circ. 4 cm. longa. Flores J sessiles, 

 laxinscule spicati. Perianthiiim crassiusculam, segmentis 6 in- 

 œqualibiis, postice et antice majoribns ovatis tnincatis, lateralibns 

 parvioribus, oblongo-ovatis acutis. Antherarum loculi circ. '20, 

 irregulariter dispositi. 



Hab. in monte Morrison, ad 0000 ped. alt., leg, T. Kawakami 

 et U. MoEi, Oct. 1906, (No. 2227). 



This diflers from the preceding species in the shape of the 

 segments and the cells of the anthers. 



c 



Euphorbiaceœ. 



Buxiis sempervirens Linn. ; Muell. Aeg. in DC. Prodr. XYI.-I, p. 

 18 ; Hook. f. Fl. I3iit. Ind. V. p. 2(37 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 315, (excl. 

 syn. B. sinensis Link.) ; Foebes et Hemsl. Lid. Fl. Sin. H. p. 418. 



Buxiis japonica Muell. Aeg. in DC. Prodr. XVI.-l. ^. 20 ; Feanch. et 

 Sayat. Enum. PL Jap, T. p, 428. 



Bums ssmj^ervirens Les'N. var. japonica Making, in Tûkj-ô Bot. Mag. 

 IX. p. 281, et XV. p. 169 ; Hayata, Kevis, Eupliorb. et Bnx. Jap. in Joiu-n. 

 Scie. CoU. XX.-3. p. 82. 



Hab. loco non iudicata. 



DiSTKEB. This plant extends from Japan and China through 

 North Africa and Europe to the Canary islands. 



The plant presents a great lange of variation. Although 

 my plant does not exactly agi-ee with this species, still I think 

 it may be regarded as a form of it. 



