248 ART. I.—B. HAYATA: 
Distrip. China, Eastern India, Birma and Java. 
OpseRV. Rami glabri nigricantes, ramulis gracilibus. Folia 
alterna, petiolata, subpersistentia membranacea lanceolata, 7 cm. 
longa, 16 mm. lata, apice acuminata, basi acuta, vel obtusa, costis 
et venis utrinque paullum elevatis, venis primariis gracillimis, petiolis 
8 mm. longis. Umbelle florum racemose disposite, racemis axilla- 
ribus 14 cm. longis, pedicellis umbellarum 8 mm. longis, vel 
racemis in 1 umbellam reductis. Umbelle 4-floratae, basi bracteis 
4, persistentibus, globosis 4 mm. longis, 5-nervatis, apice rotundatis 
membranaceis glabris. Perianthium 6-partitum glabrum, segmentis 
late ovatis obtusis 2 mm. longis, 14 mm. latis, integris vel denti- 
culatis. Stamina 9, omnia perfecta, 2mm. longa, segmento 
perianthii sequalia, filamentis glabris linearibus, ordinis primarii 
et secundarii eglandulosa, ordinis tertii glandula_ breve stipitata 
utringue aucta, antheris omnibus introrsum 4-locellatis. Rudi- 
mentum ovarii minutum. Fl. 2: ignoti. Bacca globosa, nigricans 
5 mm. longa, perianthii tubo non accrescente insidens, segmentis 
calycis deciduis. 
As shown in the above list, the species is widely distributed 
in Formosa. 
Litsea (Zetradenia) Konishii Hayara sp. nov. Ramuli recti, 
fusco-nigricantes, glabri, parce lenticellati, ad nodos cicatricibus 
foliorum approximate notati. Folia persistentia, coriacea, ad 
apicem ramulorum approximate verticillatim disposita, alterna, 
petiolata lanceolata vel oblonga, 14 cm. longa, 44 cm. lata, apice 
abrupte acuminata, (acuminibus brevibus obtusis), basi gradatim 
acuta, supra glabra, subtus glauca, pilis longis adpressis parce 
obtecta, demum glabrata, supra basin trinervia, venis primariis 
paucis utrinque latere 3, venis secundariis transverse reticulatis, 
