MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. OT 
plus minus obliqua, nigricantia, nitida, 24 mm. in diametro. 
Has. in monte Kohosho; Fuko, 1898, Mart. 
Near M. cochinchinensis, but differs from it in having less 
echinate capsules, and much broader, tricuspidate, irregularly dentate 
leaves. 
Mallotus paniculatus Muett. Arca. in Linnea XXXIV. p. 189, et 
in DC. Prodr. XV.-2, p. 965. 
Has. Tappansha, leg. S. Nacasawa, Oct. 1905, (No. 713). 
DISTRIB. 
OpsERV. I think this is quite distinct from I. cochinchinensis 
Lovr. to which it is reduced by W. B. Hemstey in Ind. FI. Sin. II. 
p- 439. 
Excecaria LINN. 
Exceecaria crenulata Wicut var. formosana Hayara n. v. 
Excacaria crenulata Hayara Rev. Euphorb. Bux. Jap. p. 60, 
(non WicHT). 
Rami validiusculi, rugosi, fusco-rubescentes, ramulis subgracili- 
bus. Folia opposita, petiolata, oblongo-lanceolata, 10 cm. longa, 
3 em. lata, apice acuminata, (acuminibus 15 mm. longis), basi 
rotundato-acuta, remote et obscure crenulato-serrulata, crenis ob- 
tusis, venis primariis utrinque latere 12, a costa angulo 70° egressis, 
arcuatis, utraque pagine concoloria, membranaceo-coriacea. Flores 
minores spicati, spicis axillaribus, vel ad apicem ramulorum termi- 
nalibus, cylindraceis dense floriferis, circ. 1 em. longis, pedunculis 
5 mm. longis. Fl. § : ad partes superiores spicarum dense spirali- 
ter dispositi, sessiles basi 1-bracteati et 2-bracteolati, bracteis 
crassiusculis latissimis 14 mm. latis, $ mm. longis, breve cuspidatis 
utraque latere auriculato-glandulosis, bracteolis ad basin bractearum 
