MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. 127 
sessiles, 6-7-radiatee, 3 cm. longs, totiusque in diametro. Umbellulee 
5°mm. long totiusque in diametro, 15-20 florate. Flores albi, 
pedicellis 3mm. longis, involucri bracteis O. Calycis dentes 
obsoleti. Petala ovata } mm. longa, acuta in acumen inflexum 
producta, ad costam leviter impressam. emarginata. Stylodia con- 
vexa. Fructus late ovatus a latere compressus, ad commissuram 
constrictus. Carpella 5-gona, juga equaliter prominula, obtusa ; 
carpophora apice bifida. , | 
Has. in humidis Maruyama, leg. Rev. U. Fauris, Mai. 1903, 
(No. 122). 
Pimpinetta Lryy. 
Pimpinella diversifolia DC. Prodr. IV. p. 122 ; Cuarxe in Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. II. p. 688 ; Forpes et Hemsz. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 329. 
Has. Taito: Shinkoko, leg. T. Kawaxamr et Z. Kopayasut, 
Juni. 1906, (No. 1508). 
Distris. Japan and China; common on the mountains of 
North India. j 
OpseRv. A glabrous herb, 50-70 cm. high, striate, leaves tri- 
foliolate, long petioled, lateral leaflets nearly sessile, obliquely ovate, 
acuminate at the apex, round at the base, 45 cm. long, 3 cm. 
broad, terminal one ovately lanceolate 5 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, 
acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base or sometimes rotun- 
date, serrate, pubescent, petiolulate, petiolules 1 cm. long, trinerved, 
petioles of leaves at the basal portion of the stem very long 7 cm. 
long, base of the petioles dilated, embracing the stem, leaves at the 
upper portion are shortly petioled, petioles dilated along its length, 
embracing the stem. Involucral leaves linear 5 mm. long. Umbella 
5mm. long as broad; carpels ovately semiglobose 14mm, 
