140 CELASTJRINEJE. 



Scandent, branches fuscent, wrinkled lengthwise, leuticellate, branchlets 

 divaricate. Leaves alternate petiolate, broaldy glolx>se, 8 cm. long, 9 cm. 

 broad, rounded at the apex, shortly cuspidate, (tails 8 mm. long, obtuse,) 

 broadly truncate or roundly cordate at the base, margin remotely obscurely 

 serrate, entire near the base, chartaceous, petioles 2| cm. long, sulcate inside. 

 Capsules cymose (cymes axillary, peduncles 2 cm. long, shortly ternate) 

 subglobose (styles persistent,) 3-valvately dehiscent, valves osseous, flavescent 

 orbicular, shortly acute at the apex, crosswise wrinkled outside, seeds 2 in 

 each cell. Seeds covered by roddish arils, obliquely cylindrical, slightly 

 recurved, 4| mm. long, 2 mm. broad, testa fusco-nigricant, rugose, minutely 

 papillose, coriaceous. 



HAB. Southern Formosa. 



The present plant is near C. articulatus, but differs in having more 

 rounded leaves and transversely wrinkled carpels when dried. The leaves 

 are nearly rounded or slightly cordate at the base, shortly acute or nearly 

 rounded at the apex, remotely serrulate on the margin, while those of C. 

 articulatm are nearly obovate, acute or rounded but never cordate at the 

 base. The carpels of the latter plant are not Avriukled but rather smooth 

 even when dried. 



3. Tripteryyium HOOK. f. 



Tripterygium Wilfordii HOOK. f. in BENTH. et HOOK. Gen. Plant. I. 

 p. 368 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 206 ; FOUBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. 

 I. p. 125 ; HENRY List PI. Formos. p. 27 ; PALIBIN Couspect. Fl. Korese 

 I. p. 54; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enuui. PI. Formos. p. 85. 



Tripterygium Bullockii HANCE, in Journ. Bot. (1880) p. 259. 



HAB. Maruyama, Taiton Kehuig. 



DiSTiiiB. Japan and China. 



Species imperfectly known to me. 



Elseodendron japonicum FHANCH. et SAVAT. MATSUM. et HAYATA 

 Enum. PI. Formos. p. 84. 

 HAB. Kotosho. 



