NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS OF FORMOSA, 105 
New or noteworthy plants of Formosa. 
Magnoliacese. 
Illicium arborescens HavarA sp. nov.  Arborescens, truneus subrectus 
12 m.altus, à medio sursum ramosus, ramulis cinerascentibus (petiolis fus- 
centibus) glaberrimis subangulatis, foliatis. Folia subopposita, petiolata, lan- 
ceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, 10-8 em. longa. 21 em.-2 em. lata, apice acumi- 
nata, ad summum aeuta, basi acuta, chartaceo-corincen, margine integra, eostis 
supra impressis subtus elevatis, venis lateralibus supra tenuissimis, subtus 
non visis, subtus pallida, opaca, petiolis 1 em.longis, fuscentibus, supra 
suleatis. — Flores terminales vel axillares, solitarii vel gemini, peduneulati, 
peduneulis 1-2 em.longis, bracteati,  semiclausi, depresso-globosi, 8 mm. 
longi, 10 mm.in diametro, rosel.  Segmenta perianthii glabra crassiuscula, 
12-15, margine ciliolata, extimis minimis, interioribus magnis, extimis late 
reniforme cordatis 41 mm.latis, basi auriculato cordatis, vel semirotundatis 
5mm.longis 7 mm.latis, apice rotundatis basi contractis subcordatis vel 
rotundatis, ad  insertionem 21 mm.latis, interioribus magnis rotundatis 
Smm. in diametro apice basique rotundatis, basi constrietis ad inser- 
tionem 2mm.latis valde coneavis, utrique glabris, intimis plus minus 
angustioribus. Stamina o», 2-seriatim disposita 2-3 mm.longa, filumentis 
eomplanatis, in latitudine variabillimis, antheris adnatis in forma variabilibus 
apice truncatis, 13 mm. longis. Carpella 10-14, l-seriatim verticillata, latere 
compressa, a latere visa basi ovata apice caudata, (partibus ovatis 2 mm. 
longis 13 mm.latis, caudis 1mm.vel 11 mm.longis apice extrorse recurvis), 
in sectione ceuneiformia, dorso obtuse eostata, facie acuta, l-ovulata, glabra. 
'lorus conieus ultra insertionem earpellorum productus, partibus productis 
breve columnaribus 1-2 mm. longis. 
Has. Inter Karapin et Funkiko, leg. Db. Havara et S. Sasaxr, Jan. 
1912. 
"The nearest congener of this plant is 7. majus H. f. et (T. (in Hoox f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. L p. 40), which is different from our species in having much 
longer petioles, longer peduncles; another plant resembling ours is J. Griffithii 
