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Genus eximie polymorphum forsan in plura genera dividendum. 

 Boerlagiodendron kotoense Nakai, comb, now 



Osmoxylon kotoensis Hayata, Icon. PI. Form. VI. suppl. 33 (1917), nom. nud. 

 Boerlagiodendron pectinatum Hayata, Icon. PL Formos. x. 27 (1920), non 

 Merrill. 



Differt a Boerlagiodendron pectinato Merrill quorum adhuc confusum 

 cristulis non pectinatis sed barbatis, floribus ramorum lateralium pedi- 

 cellatis. 



Arbor; rami robusti glabri. Folia longe petiolata; petioli teretes basi 

 distincte ligulati et cristulis longe barbatis tribus instructi, barbisl.0-1.5 



cm.longis; lamina ad medium palmatim 5-loba, basi integra rotundato- 

 mucronata, lobis elliptico-lanceolatis grosse crenato-scrratis, supra viri- 

 dia lucida, infra pallida. Umbellae terminales breviter pedunculatae, 

 bracteis ovatis acuminatis; radii 4-fidi; rami niediani in nostris speci- 

 minibus decidui, laterales 4 cm. longi, medio 2-bracteolati ; pedicelli 

 3-6 mm. longi ; calycis limbus nullus. Fructus 5-sulcatus ; stigma depresso- 

 capitatum. 



Formosa: insula Kotosho vel Botel-Tobago, T. Kawakami & S. 

 Sasaki, no. 59. 



According to Mr. Sasaki this tree grows in wet shady places on the 

 island of Botel-Tobago. It is about 7 m.highand its trunk is almost 10-12 

 cm. in diameter; the branches are scanty. 



Gilibertia Ruiz & Pav. 



Gilibertia Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Chil. Prodr. 50, t. 8 (1794); ed. 

 2, 40, t. 8 (1797).— De Candolle, Prodr. iv. 255 (1830).— G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. in. 387 (1834).— Endlicher, Gen. PL 794 (1836-40) —Miquel in 

 Ann. Mus. Rot. Lugd.-Bat. i. 3 (1863).— Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PI. 

 i. 944 (1867).— Marchal in Martius, Fl. Brasil. xi. pt. I. 246 (1878). 

 Harms in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzen fam.m. abt. 8, 40 (1894). Non 

 J. F. Gmelin. 1 



Dendropanax Decaisne & Planchon in Rev. Hort. 1854, 107. — Miquel in Ann. 



Mus. Bot. LuRd.-Bat. I. 3, 26 (1863).— Seemann in Jour. Bot. II. 299 (1864) ; 



Rev. Heder. 27 (1868).— Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PL i. 943 (1876). 

 Textoria Miquel in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. 3, 12 (1863). 



Sect. I. EUGILIBEBTIA Nakai. 

 Umbellae decompositae. Flores 6-8-meri. 

 Sect. II. DENDROPANAX Nakai. 

 Umbellae decompositae. Flores 5-meri. 

 Sect. III. TEXTORIA Nakai. 



Umbellae simplices vel basi tantum ramosae. Flores 5-meri. Species 

 Asiaticae omnes hue ducendae. 



Gilibertia morbifera Nakai, comb. nov. 



Dendropanax morbiferum L6veill6 in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. vni. 493 (1910). 



1 (iilibertia J. G. Gmelin (Syst. Nat. n. 68£ (1791) ) is a synonym of the older and valid 

 generic name Quivisia Cavanilles. 



