SABIACE.E. 161 



2. Meliosma BLUME. 

 Dichotomous Key to tic Formosan Species. 



(1) Leaves simple. (2) 



Leaves compound fil. rhoifdia. 



(2) Leaves lanceolate or oblong, acuminate ou both ends, elougately petioled, 



flowers more laxly an-anged on the compound raceme 



M. squamtdata. 



Leaves oblnuceohte, petioles shorter, flowers much denser. . . M. rigida. 



Meliosma rhoifolia MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. VI. p. 262; FORBES et 

 HEMSL, Lid. Fl Sin. I. p. 146 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 29 ; MATSUM. 

 et HAYATA Euum. PI. Formos. p. 98. 



HAB. Tamsui. 



DBTRIB. An endemic plant. 



Meliosma rigida SIEB. ot Zucc. ; MAXIM, in ENGL. Bot. Jahrb. VI. p. 

 60 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 145 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 

 29 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 99. 



Mdiosina pvngens HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Lid. H. p. 4. 



HAB. Keluug. 



DISTRIB. Japan, Himalaya. 



Meliosma squamulata HANCE in Jotirn. Bot. (1876) p. 364 ; FORBES 

 et HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. I. p. 146 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 29 ; MATSUM. 

 et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 99 ; HAYATA Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa, p. 71. 



Arbour, branches cinerasceiit, more or less lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves 

 simple, long petiolate, coriaceous, obloug-Liuceolate, 10-12 cm. long, 34 

 4-i cm. broad, acuminate or caudate at the apex, attenuate at the base, quite 

 glabrous and polished above, pallid or glaucous beneath, under microscope 

 minutely lepedote and pubescent, primary veins arcuate, anastomosing at the 

 extremities, petioles nearly 7 -8 cm. long. Flowers white, racemosely panicu- 

 late. Panicles erect. !> cm. long, 5 cm. broad, branches slender, 5-6 cm. long, 



