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r, gemi above, pubescent, Mules ellipiico-oblong, 4-5 cm. 



long, 2 oin. broad, acute at lx>th ends ov obtuse, margin crenulate, slightly 

 repandate, entiiv towards the base, gl-ibrous on both sides, cosfcas piomineiit, 

 -<1. coriaceous. Flowers axillary, always solitary, patent, 3 cm. in 

 diameter. Sepals deciduous, 4-5, strongly inequal, 2-seriate, broadly ovate, 

 >r mucrouate, <3-3 mm. long as broad, pilose on the outside. 

 Petals 5, white, olwvately cmieate, sinuately emargiiiate at the apex or 2- 

 lobed, ueaiiv 1.1 cm. long, 1 cm. broad. Stamens nearly 30, 2-seriate. 

 the outer the longer ; filaments mostly as half long as petals, base connate. 

 Cvarv glolx)se, sericeo-pilose, li mm. long. Styles 4, very short, base coimate, 

 recurved at the apex, 1 mm. long. Fruits not yet known. 

 HAB. Arizaii and Tozau. 



Thea chinensis SIMS, Bot. Mag. t. 993; DC. Prodi-. I. p. 530 ; SEEM. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXII. p. 340, t.. Gl ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Euum. PL 

 Formos. i ;b Camellia.) 



HAB. Widely cultivatexl in the island. 

 India, Japan and China. 



Thea tenuiflora HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 4(1. 

 Branches slender, cinereo-rubescent, leafy on the upper portions, young 

 branclilets nigricant, hirsute, perulate at the base, parules rounded, ciliolate, 

 2-3-seriately airauged, cataphylLs spathuLite, entire, 1 cm. long. Leaves 

 petiolate, coriaceous, obovately obloug or obloug, 4 cm. long, 16 mm. broad, 

 acute at the apex, obtuse at the extremity, eimeately acute at the base, dis- 

 tinctly serrulate upwards ou the margin, but very obscurely at the middle, 

 nearly entire downwards, glabrous on both sides when dried, (in 

 younger stage somewliat pilose) minutely punctate on both sides, costa, 

 veins and veinlets distinctly elevated, petioles 5 mm. long. Flowers sessile, 

 axillary, solitary. Sepals nearly 5, iuequal, deciduous, broadly rounded 

 sparingly pilose, coriaceous, 4 mm. broad, ciliolate on the margin. Petals 

 nearly 5, inequal, obovatt-ly obloug, rounded or truncately rounded at the 

 apex, base cuneate, 18 mm. long, 10 mm. broad. Stamens numerous, 8 mm. 



