MALVACE.. 93 



Branches slender fuscent, sometimes ashy coloured. Leaves arranged to- 

 wards the apex of the branches, alternate, petiolute, oblong, obovate, 10-12 

 cm. long, 3-i cm. broad, subactite at the apex or acuminate, obtuse at the 

 extremity, margin serrate towards the apex, entire downwards, cuneate at 

 the l>ase, veinlets elevated and reticulated beneath, minutely prominently punc- 

 tate, coriaceous, petioles short, 6 mm. long. Flowers solitary at the axils of 

 the apical leaves, shortly pedunculate, peduncles 34 mm. long, nearly 

 pilose. Flower-buds ovate. Flowers when opened 3-3^ cm. in diameter. 

 Sepals o, strong imbricate, deciduous, inequal, margin, ciliolate, coriaceous, 

 somewhat thick, sericeo-pubesceut, outermost ones smaller, broadly orbicular or 

 broadly crescent-shaped, 4 mm. broad, 3 mm. long, innermost larger, embrac- 

 ing flower- buds, broadest, obtusely acute at the base, thick at the middle, thinner 

 towards the margin, 2 cm. broad. Petals 5-6, inequal, connate at the base, 

 obovately oblong, 3-exterior ones larger, obovately oblong, 1| cm. long, 12 mm. 

 broad, truucately emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, margin 

 cmled, 2-interior ones smaller, narrowed. Stamens numerous, connate at the 

 base, shorter tliau petals, 8 mm. long. Ovary densely shortly seiiceo-hirsute, 

 3-cellecl (placentas incrassate) 7 mm. long (including style) ovoid, gradually 

 narrowed at the apex to the style. Styles 3, connate to the niiddway. . .1 

 entirely connate, stigma on the apex of the braiichlets of the style, 2- 

 lamellate. 



1 IAB. Sliinko : llemoganslia, coll. T. KAWAKAMI and U. Moui, 1900', Jirne. 



This comes very near T. reticulate. : but differs from it by the leaves 

 and tiowei"S. 



Species imperfectly known. 



CA.MELLIA Di'iiYoiDEs LIXDL.; MAT.SUM. et HAY AT A Eiium. PI. Formos. 

 p. 49. 



Malvaceae. 



Conspectus of the Formoso.n Gen< >". 



Malvaceae. Herbs or shrubs, ripe carpels separating from the axis. Styles 

 us many as the carpels. (1) 



