MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA, 121 
Flores dicecii? fl. ?: 11 mm. longi; calyces campanulati, 3 mm. in 
diametro, breviter 5-dentati, dentibus 1 mm. longis. Corolle 5- 
partite, segmentis ovatis obtuis 3 mm. longis 24 mm. latis patenti- 
bus flavis. Ovarium oblongum 4 mm. longum, 3 mm. in diametro. 
apice rostratum, rostro 1$ mm. longo, stylo 3mm. longo, disco 
annulari inserto, stigmatibus 3, capitatis, 2-lobis. FI.9 ignoit, 
Bacea globosa 1 cm. in diametro polysperma capillariter stipitata, 
stipite 2-3 cm. longo. Semina ovata complanata albescentia 4 mm. 
longa, glabra. 
Has. Banchoryd; Rokkirisha, leg. G. Naxanara, Oct. 1905, 
(No. 592). 
Alsomitra Ram. 
Alsomitra integrifoliola Hayata n. n. 
Alsomitra clavigera Henry List of Pl. Formos. p. 46; Marsum. 
et Hayata Enum. Pl. Formos. p. 164, (non Hook. f.) 
Gynostemma integrifoliola Coantaux in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 
IIL. p. 916. 
The present plant is mentioned in Hrnry’s List of Plants from 
Formosa p. 46, as Alsomitra clavigera Hoox. f. and is also referred 
to the same species by myself in Enum. Pl. Formos. p. 164, as 
the description of Hooxer’s plant is, in greater part, in accord 
with my plant. Mr. EK. D. Merri of the Bureau of Science, 
P. I., when we were together looking over the Formosan collections 
in the Herbarium at Tokyo, told me that he thought the plant to be 
identical with Gynostemma integrifoliola Coan. To what species the 
present plant should be definitely referred was a very difficult 
question for me, until I saw the types of Hooxrr’s and Coantavx’s 
species and Henry’s specimen, all preserved here in the Kew 
Herbarium. A comparison of my plant with the specimens above 
