50 f:ifUCli-T. i ;.!:. 



larger seeds and smaller leaves, and also in Tearing very long stolons. The 

 Indian plant appears to lie of more tender liabit, with curved pods, 

 narrower, smaller seeds, and larger, thinner leaves. Moreover, the present 

 plant differs from A. arenox:t Scor. in having longer pods, smaller flowers, 

 and leaves with more rounded lol)es. 



Arabis alpina LINN. S'p. II. ed-2. p. 028 ; DC. Frodr. I. p. 142 ; 

 HOOK. f. et. THOMS. in Journ. Linn. So; 1 . V. p. 141 ; HOOK. f. et ANDERS. 

 iii HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Iiid. I. p. 135; DIELS Fl. Centr. Chin, in FXGL. Pot. 

 Jahrb. XXIX. p. 359; LEDEB. Fl. Ross. I. p. 117; HOOK, et Ai;x. Bot. 

 Beech. Toy. p. 112 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 49. 



Arabis albida STEV. ; DC. Frodr. I. p. 142. 



Aralis pterosperma EDGEW. in Tran. linn. SW. XX. p. 33. 



HAB. Mi Morrison. 



DISTKIB. Asia, from Altai westward to Europe ; east Himalaya, central 

 China northward to eastern il>eria. 



My specimen doss not quite agree with the description of A. aljjina 

 Lixx. It seems to me that the plant differs a little from the type in its 

 individual character only. The leaves of the present form are sul entire, 

 while those of the type are more or less dentate. 



3, Cfirdmnine Lixx. 



Dichotomons Keij to the Formosan Species. 



Leaves not lobed Cardamine remformis. 



Leaves piunately lobed. (1) 



(1) Flant very much slender, leaves small, less than 4 cm. in 



length C. parviflora. 



Flant much larger, leaves more than 8 cm. in length C. hirsuta. 



&. lobes rounded 6'. hirsuta var rohtndiloba. 



fi. lobes mostly obovate C. hirsuta var formosano. 



Cardamine reniformis HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 50, and 

 Materials for a Flora of Formos. p. 31. Stem slender, 8-9 cm. long, erect, 



