(80) TEKTAMEN FLOII.E LUTCHUENSIS. 347 



Formosa (Mahino !), soutli-eastern China and India ; also in 

 tropical Africa, America and tbe Malay Islands. 



T. procumbens, Forst. *' Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austral. p. 35 "; 

 DC. Prodr. I, !>. -j()8 ; Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beecb. Voy. p. 60; 

 Hemsl. in Joiiru. Pot. 1800, }). 2 (uon Bentli. Fl. Austral. I, p. 

 273, nec anct. alior., saltem pro maxima partc). 



T. crasslfolia, Solander, " Pritn. Fl. Pacif. p. 250," 



et in " Parkins. Drawings of Tuliit. Pl. t. 51, ined."; 



Seemann, Fl. Vit. p. 26. 



T. Fabreana, GauJ. " Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 478, t. 102," 



fide Hemsl. l.c. 



Archipelago Yema : insula Hatiruma {Tashiro ! Julio 



1887, frf.). 



DiSTRTB. Malay Archipelago, Western Polynesia, Fritz- 



roy Island, tlic Seychelles, Diego Garcia and tlie Keeling 



Islands. 



This is an interesting discovery. Tlie whole plant densely 

 villous, the stem being procumbent, with long-petioled rotundate 

 or ovate obtusely 1- or tii-lobed crenate or crenate-dentate 

 leaves, nearly naked above, but densely pubescent and grayisli 

 below. Fruits globose, ;!-2 inch diam., with many densely 

 villous prickles, whicli are distinctly dilated at tlie base. 



Tashiro's specimen is closely allied to T. semitriloba, L., but 

 can be distinguished by its stem beingsoftly pubescent and never 

 hispidulous, by its fruits provided with many long prickles, whicli 

 are dilated at tlie base, as well as densely villous and never 

 glabrous. 



T. annua, L. Mant. p. 73 ; DC. Prodr. I, p. 507 ; Miq. 



