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diameter, lobes 5, triangular, pilose, tube very pilose inside. Petals 5, 

 orbicular, 3-4 mm. long as broad, ernargiuate at the apex, slightly contracted 

 at the base. Stamens z: . Carpels 5, mostly pilose, styles glabrous. 

 HAB. Taito. 



Colon caster Koizumi! HAY ATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 101. 

 Branches dark ashy, longitudinally rugose, branchlets divaricate, spinose towards 

 the apex, densely pubescent, (hairs soft), leafy. Leaves alternately 2-3- 

 clustered towards the apex of the branchiate (leafy branches very short J mm. 

 long), obovate or spathulately obovate, 18 mm. long, 11 mm. broad, roundly 

 emargiuate and shoitly apiculate at the apex, cuneately obtuse at 

 the base, quite entire, coriaceous, nearly shining above, pallid beneath, slightly 

 reddish on both surfaces when dried, petioles 3 mm. long. Cymes terminal 

 on the apex of the lateral brauchlets, sessile, 2 1 cm. long, 3 cm. bro id, 

 glabrous. Drupes depressingly gloljose, 4 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. Calyx 

 (fructiferous) suburceolats-globose, lobes persistent, broadly triangular, nearly 

 including stones. Stones 5, naked at the apex, roundly quadrantiformed 

 24^ mm. long, If mm. broad, fusco-rubescent. 



HAB. Pimm. 



The present plant is very distinct from other species of the genus, in 

 liaving oljovate or even spatlmlate leaves which are emarginate at the apex. 

 From C. formcsa.no, it differs in the inflorescence on the shortened branchlets 

 standing nearly alternately on a side-branch. 



Cotoneaster taitoensis HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 

 102. Shrub, branches very ashy-dark, nearly shining, longitudinally 

 rugose, branchlets divaricate shortly sparingly pubescent, spines simple 

 1 cm. long. Leaves alternately approximately disposed on the shortest lateral 

 branchlets, or 3-4-clustered on the apex of the very short branchlets, ob- 

 ovately spatlmlate or spathulate, 3| cm. long, 1 cm. broad, truucately emar- 

 ginate at the apex, shortly apiculate, entire on the margin, slightly pubescent, 

 at last glabrous, cuneately narrowed at the base, coriaceous, nearly sinning 

 above, pale beneath, rubesceut when dried, petioles 3 mm. long. Fruits 

 paniculate, panicles terminal on the short branchlets. Drupes globose, cm. 



