STERCULTACF.T:. 103 



membranaceous, nerves distinct, petioled, petioles 6 em. long. Panicles 15 cm. 

 long, loosely flowered ; flowers polygamous. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, 

 lol>es lanceolate, hairy. Fl. : stamina! column short -r than the calyx, declin- 

 ing, anthers sessile- on the outside of the very short loljes, forming a globular 

 terminal head. Fl. _$: ovary stalked, -Molted, with anthers at its base, style 

 declining, stigma 4-lolted, tomeutose. Capsules fleshy, leather-like, thick, 

 ovate, beaked, sessile, 5-6 cm. long, bright scarlet slightly velvety. The plant 

 is not indigenous to Formosa, but comes from the opposite continent and 

 is found only in cultivation. 



The present Steroid in is near >>'. ''a CAV. but differs from it in 



the calx with lanceolate, 



Sterculia platanifolia LINK. f. ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 483 ; BENTH. Fl. 



Hongk. p. 36 ; Knrz in .Toum. Bot. . 1873i p. 193 ; FRANTH. et SAY. Euum. 

 PI. -Tap. I. p. 05: F<>I:V.F.< et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 90; MIQ. Prol. Fl. 

 Jap. p. 256; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. -22; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. 

 Lutch. p. 343 : MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. 58. 



Sterculia tomcnJrwi THUNB. Ic. PI. .Tap. Pecas. IV. t. 8. 



Stt-K-ulia pyri/ormis BUNGE ; WALT. Piep. I. p. 335. 



Hibiscus simplex Lixy. ftp. PI. ed-2, p. 977. 



Flrmiana plakunfdKa SC-HOTT ; W.VLP. Kep. Y. p. 104. 



HAB. Tamsui, South Cape, Tappansha. 



DISTRIB. Japan and Cliiua. 



2. Heritiera AIT. 



Heritiera littoralis -AIT. "Hoii. Kew. p. 546," et ed-2. V. p. 339; 

 DC. Pr.xlr. I. p. 484 ; BEXTH. Fl. Hougk. p. 36, et Fl. Austral. I. p. 231 : 

 MAXIM, in EXGL. Bot. Jahrb VI. p. 61 ; ROXB. Fl. Ind. IH. p. 142 ; MIQ. 

 Fl. Tud. Bat. I. pt-2, p. 179 ; MAST, in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 362 ; 

 FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 90 ; MATSUM. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XA*. p. 53 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 22 ; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. Fl. 

 Lutch. p. 343; MATSUM. et HAYATA Euum. PI. Formos. p. 59. 



HAB. Tainan, Kelung, South Cap*'. 



