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way down to the lase. valves entire Serxls compressedly glolwse, shortly 

 Ix-aked at tlie apex, recurved. fact- arcuately reticulate. 



HAL. Arizan. 



Xe.u- Sf<'lJr!<i iiic-<li<i LIN~N. Imt differs from it in having extremely 

 small flowers. 



Stellaria aquatica Scor. ; BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 21 ; BAKER et S. 

 MOORE in Joimi. Linn. So?. XVII. p. 380 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. 

 T. p. (17 ; Pn:r> Fl. C'entr. Cliiu. p. % 319 ; MATSU.M. et HAY ATA Enum. PL 

 Formos. p. 36. 



Cerastinii/ aqiiaficnm Lixx. Sp. PI. ed-*2 p. fi'2'.). 



L f irl>refi aquad SEP, in Dl 1 . Prodr. I. p. 395. 



Myosoton aq^i'icum M<EX -\\. ; FRANCA ET PI. David, p. ;">3. 



HAI;. Slu'iitikn, Taihokn. 



PISTRIB. Wi.lely diffused in tempsrat regions. 



Portulaceae. 



*p?dus of the Formos'in Genei'n. 



1 Ovary half-adnate to the calyx .......................... Portl"r. I 



( )vary free. .......................................... Talirwm. *2 



1. Port H! ft c ft Lixx. 



DicJtofomos Key to tie Formosan Species. 

 1 I/eaves lanceolate ............................. PorluJaca pilose vor. 



>l>ovate or ol>ovately s]-athulate (2). 

 (2) Distinctly pilose at the axils of the 1 ....... P. quadrifida. var. 



formosana. 

 Not at all pilo.se at the axils < if the leaves. .............. P. cleracea. 



Portulaca pilosa T.IXN. var. I\rAT>u>f. et HAY AT A Ennm. PI. Formos. 

 p. 38. 



HAR. Taihokn. 

 DISTRIB. 



