MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. 49 
OssEeRV. A small tree: leaves large, oblong, 30 em. long, 
15 cm. broad membranaceous, nerves distinct, petioles 6 cm. 
long. Panicles 15 cm. long, loosely flowered. Flowers polygamous. 
Calyx campanulate 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate hairy. Fl. J: staminal 
column shorter than the calyx, declining, anthers sessile on the 
outside of the very short lobes, forming a globular terminal head. 
Fl. 6.: ovary stalked, 4-lobed, with anthers at its base, style 
declining, stigma 4-lobed, tomentose. Capsules fleshy, leather-like, 
thick, ovate, beaked, sessile, 5-6 em. long, bright scarlet, slightly 
velvety. The plant is not indigenous to Formosa; but comes from the 
opposite continent and is in the island found only in cultivation. 
The present Sterculia is near S. lanceolata Cav.; but differs 
from it in the calyx with lanceolate lobes. 
Pterospermum ScHREB. 
Pterospermum formosanum Marsum. in Marsum. et Hayara 
Enum. P]. Formos. p. 62. 
This is very like, or perhaps the same as, a specimen from 
Borneo, preserved at Kew, labelled P. Juscum Kura.?, which 
Specimen, however, is certainly different from the type of the 
named species. 
Tiliacee. 
Sloanea LINN. 
Sloanea hongkongensis Hemsu. in Hook. Ic. Pl. XXVII. (1900) 
t. 2628. 
Distris. Hongkong. 
