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7. Thladiantha Dvxar. 
Key to the. Formosan. Species. 
(1) Leaves ovate deeply eordate, scabrously dotted with white points, re- 
motely mueronately serrulate on the margin. ........ T. punctata. 
Leaves more or less lobate or obseurely grossly dentate. (3) 
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Leaves softly tomentose, obseurely dentate or simply mucronately re- 
ios une SE MOS CeEooodnad TOKNIOHEEE TODO T. forinosana. 
Leaves beset with scabrous hairs, lobate. .............. T. tetwamiana, 
Thladiantha formosana Havars Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 100. Herb, 
seandent and voluble, branchlets very slender suleate, long hairy, tendrils 2— 
parted. Leaves long petioled, petioles as long as blades, or shorter, pilose, 
blades thiek, membranaceous, angular, roundly cordate or ovately cordate 
10 em. long 7 em. broad, acute acuminate, margin minutely remotely denti- 
eulate, seabrid above, villosely pubescent beneath. | Male flowers puberulous, 
racemose, racemes long 2-3-times longer than petioles, braets small, deciduous. 
Calyx-tube short broadly eampanulate, lobes ovately lanceolate 5 mm. long. 
Petals patent ovately lanceolate 11 mm.long. Stamens 5, equal, anthers 1— 
celled straight, filaments free. Radiment of ovary globose. — Appendicles a. short 
petaloid obtuse. 
Han. "Plosan, Morrison. 
Very much resembles 7" »sudiflore Hywsr., but differs from it in having 
pedunceled racemes and smaller flowers which are as half as those of the al- 
lied. species. 
Disrums. An allied species 7^. »udiflore Hxwsr. occurs in Central China. 
Thladiantha punctata Havara Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 
119, and Ic. Pl. Formos. Fase. I. Pl. XXXVII. — Scandent, stems glabrous, 
siriate, —internodes  S8cm.long. ^ Leaves alternate — petiolate,  oblongo- 
cordate or ovate, 12em.long, 71cm.broad, cordately reniformed at the 
base, 24em.long below the base, the basal sinus ovate acute, margin 
remotely — mueronately  serrate, albo-punctate above, very  scabrous, but 
hlispid on the eostw beneath, otherwise glabrous, iürinerved, lateral nerves 
