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Ilex formosana MAXIM. Coriar. Hie. Moiioclias. in Mem. A cad. S.-. 

 IVtfisl). 7" serie. XXIX. (1881 p. 4G ; FOKHES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. 

 p. 11<3 ; HENIIY List PI. Formes, p. 27 ; MAI-SUM, et HAY ATA Enum. PI. For- 

 mos. p. si ; HAY AT A Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 54. 



HAB. Kuketsux-m, Baukiusiug, Uraislia. 



DlsTiiiu. An endemic plant. 



OBSERV. Branches blackish; leaves elliptical, acut- at the bas^, acumi- 

 nate or cuspidate at the apex, obtuse at the very tip, 7-8 cm. luiig, '2-3 cm. 

 broad, margin obscurely creuulaU>. veins not very distinct mi the upper sur- 

 face, reticulated and dotted on the under surface, somewhat pale l>eneatli, 

 petioles alxnit 1 cm. long. Flowers on a very short raceme, almost contracted 

 to a cluster. 



Ilex goshiensis HAY ATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. ~>i. 

 Branches strong, cinerascent, branchlets fasoo-rubescent, augulate. Leaves 

 alternate, jietiolate. coriaceous, oln.vately oblong or oblong, '2(i mm. long, 10 mm. 

 broad, retusely acute at the apex, quite entire, opaque above, veins not vi- 

 sible, very pallid Ijeueath, venose, petioles 4 mm. long. Drupes clustered at 

 the. axils of the leaves, peduncles o mm. long, pedicels 3 mm. long, globose, 

 4 mm. in diameter, fuseo-rubescent with 4-sepals at the base. 



HAJJ. Shintiku : Goshizau. 



Near Ik.r ClanqMOni L<ES. ; but differs from it in having shortly cuspi- 

 date leaves. The leaves of /. Chanipioiu are very rounded or even emar- 

 ginate at the a]vx. It is also near //' /; memeydfoUa CHAMP, from which it 

 ditiv v -having leavt-s which are ret used at the apex. There is in the 

 at Tokyo a specimen from the Loo-choo islands which has been 

 \\ith 7. Haw:" i, '". MAXIM, by Dr. T. Pro in his "Tent. Fl. Lutch. 

 p. 3(37." The specimen is very like, or even the same as, the plant just 

 described, and I have wondered if the Loo-chooau plant b-j really identical 

 with /. IL.inn-a.ni.1.. As is descriltel by MAXLMOWICZ in his " Coriar. Hie. 

 Monoeh. p. 33," /. Hanceana lias " CymuUe ^ breve pedunculate, 5-6- 

 flone, petiolum bis vel ter superautes, pedicelli calyce a?(piilongi, rlores 4-meri 

 circ. liiiam longi. Calyx puljerulus, lobis ciliatis ovatis."' But, in the Loo- 



