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punctate, points blackish purple. Petals 5, elougately olwvate, 7 mm. long, 

 2] mm. broad, roundedly truncate at the apex, sometimes slightly emarginate, 

 euneately narrowed at the base, punctately maculate from the middle 

 upwards, points linear or orbicular, blackish purple. Stamens 25-30, 

 connate at the b:is a , filaments filiformed 4-5 mm. long, anthers broadly 

 orbicular emarginate at lx>th ends, i mm. long, maculate on the back at the 

 apex, spots orbicular. Ovary oblongly ovoid 3 mm. long, l- mm. broad, 

 3-sulcate. Styles 3, distinct, 3 mm. long. Capsules elougately ovoid, 1 cm. 

 long, 4 mm. broad, crowned with persistent styles. Seeds numerous shortly 

 cylindrical, H mm. long, -.} mm. broad, obscurely mucronate on lx)th ends, 

 elegantly muricate under microscope. 



HAB. Taisau, coll. T. KAWAKAMI. 



Near Hypericum crccfxm THUNB. ; but differs from it in having elongated, 

 iiVnte 1'-: 



Hypericum randaiense HAYATA (PI. XVII.) Material* for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 39. Shrubby small, procumbent at the base, but ascendent 

 towards the apex, stems slender tetragouous, prominent at the angles, 

 glabrous, rnbescent. Leav.-* opposite, sessile, linear, or linear-lanceolate 

 truncate at the apex, or shortly mucrouate, 13 mm. long, 2-i mm. broad, 

 slightly punctate on the margin, or not punctate, but dotted with pelucid 

 dots. Cymes 3-5-flowered, or reduced to one flower, pedicels 1-2 cm. 

 long. Sepals 5, linear-narrowed, 5.1- mm. long, 1] mm. broad, obtuse, dotted 

 with 2 or 3 black points <>u the margin, but dotted with a few pelucid 

 dots on the blades or not at all punctate. Petals 5, strongly oblique olxwate, 

 rounded at the apex, obliquely cuneately acute at the base, mm. long, 5 

 mm. broad. Stamens numerous, filaments 6-7 mm. long, anthers broad orbi- 

 cular, i mm. broad, emarginate on both sides, maculate oil the back on the 

 apex. Ovary ovoid, 3-sulcate, 2.1 mm. long, styles 3, distinct, 5i mm. long. 



HAB. Raudaizan, coll. I'. Mow and B. HAYATA, Aug. 1908, ,Xo. 7108 . 



This is very near H. ^rfor-dinn but differs from it in having much 

 obtuse sepals. 



Hypericum Nagasawai HAYATA iPl. X VIET.) Materials for a Flora of 



