MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. Pale! 
Fl. Hongk. p. 256 ; Hoox. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. p. 333 ; Forses et Hemst. 
md?) Me sinell.-p.! 224. 
Has. Shizangan, leg. B. Hayara, Juli. 1908. 
Distris. India, Ceylon, Malaya, Cochinchina and China. 
Gesneraceee. 
Titanotrichum SOLERED. 
Titanotrichum Oldhami Soterep. in Berichite der Deutsch. 
Bot. Gesellsch. V.-27, p. 400, (Sept. 1909). 
Matsumuria Oldhami Hemsu. in Kew Bull. Dec. (1909) 
p. d61. 
“Rehmannia Oldhami Hest. Ann. Bot. IX. p. 154; Ind. Fl. Sin. 
II. p. 194; Henry List Pl. Formos. p. 88; Marsumura et Hayata 
Enum. Pl. Formos. p. 282; Hayara Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 174. 
Distris. An endemic genus. 
OssEeRy. Herb base shrubby, hirsute; stem slender, simple, 
hirsute, scape-like, erect, with a few leaves a little above 
the base, with a few flowers a little below the middle, and 
with many deformed ones spicately arranged upwards. Leaves 
shortly petioled, approximately alternate, obliquely oblong acute 
at both ends, margin serrate towards the apex, intire near 
the base, strigose above, pubescent below. Segments of de- 
formed flowers very small oblong acute, terete, fleshy, numer- 
ously clustered; clusters alternate, or approximately superposed. 
Flowers a few, racemosely arranged a little below the 
middle of the stem, pediceled. Calyx 5-parted, segments lanceo- 
* For comment as to this being referred to this species and family, see p. 5, under In- 
troduction. 
