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acuminata, 7-15 cm. longa, 6-14 cm. lata, margine serrulata, 
d-nervia, basi supra 2-glandulosa, stipulis lanceolatis linearibus. 
Flores moncecii subsessiles. Spicee terminales simplices, floribus 
et £ parvis secus rhachin glomeratis, bracteis minutis. Alabas- 
trum floris § depresso-globosum tetragonum, segmentis valvatis. 
Flores 7 apertientes 5 mm. in diametro, sepalis 4 triangularibus 
acutis 14 mm. longis, intus glabris, extus sursum glanduloso- 
punctatis. Stamina 8, biseriatim disposita, filamentis crassis, basi 
in annulum connatis, antheris globosis introrsis, utrinque emarginatis 
dorsifixis, connectivis antice inter loculos, loculis distinctis 
apice connatis. Ovarii rudimentum 0. Fl. 2: sepala 5, imbricata, 
lanceolata, acuminata, 2$ cm. longa, ovarium superantia, extus 
pubescentia intus glabra, inequalia, intimo minuto. Ovarium 
globosum 3-loculare, (ovulis in loculis solitariis), pubescens, stylis 
distinctis, linearibus, indivisis, basi connatis, angulo 180° divari- 
catis intus papillosis, 5 mm. longis apice acuminatis descedento- 
recurvatis, utrinque pubescentibus. 
Has. Liukiu, leg. J. Matsumura, 1897; Kumeshima, leg. 
H. Kurvurwa, 1898. 
Near A. trewioides Murti. Ara., but differs from it in having 
conspicuously serrated leaves. The leaves of the other species are 
mostly obscurely serrated. 
Mallotus Lovr. 
Mallotus formosanus Hayara sp. nov. Rami fusco-purpuras- 
centes, leviter longitudinaliter rugulosi, lenticellis minutis notati, 
ramulis gracilibus indumentis mollissimis rubro-albicantibus ob- 
tectis. Folia longe petiolata, late quinquangularia, divaricate 
tricuspidata, 7 em. longa, 8 cm. lata, apice cuspidata, basi truncato- 
