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" Euum. PI. Forui<.s. p. 130, v aiul finally identified with P. Nctoniana WIGHT 

 et AKX. var. ew/mifdia HOOK, by Mr. G. K< >IZUMI hi " Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XXTTI. p. 170. While studying at Kew, I examined the types of 

 the species above mentioned, and found tliat they are not at all iii 

 'ixlance with the present plant. They differs from our plant besides 

 many other points in having much larger and thicker or even coriaceous 

 leaves. 



Photinia serrulata HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 263 ; HAYATA Materials 

 for a Flora of Formosa p. 104. 



HAB. Tait~>, Daishinzau. 



So far as the external comparison is concerned, the present plant is 

 quite referable to this species. My plant lacks flowers. 



Photinia taiwanensis HAYATA iPl. XXX. i Materials for a Flora of 

 Formosa p. 104. Branches ashy-dark, or fusco-purpurascent, longitudinally 

 rugulose, leuticeLs minute, braiichlets slender, albo-tomenftoaa, Leaves obovatelv- 

 oblong or oblanceolate, 8 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, cuspidately acuminate at 

 the apex, acute at the base, minutely serrulate upwards, serrulas minute, 

 remotely serrulate downwards, quite entire near the base, chartaceous, at 

 first covered with soft tomentum, at last nearly glabrous, costas and veins 

 slender, petioles 7 mm. long. Flowers shortly umbellate, cymose, cymes 

 terminal, 2 cm. long, as broad, pedicels 1 cm. long, bracts subulate, 2 mm. 

 long. Calyx campanulate, glabrous, 2 J mm. long, lobes patent, triangular or 

 broadly rounded, mucronate, 1 mm. long, 1-J- mm. broad. Petals 5, rounded, 

 3.V mm. long as broad, roundly truncate or acute subemarginate or not 

 emarginate at the apex, abruptly cuspidately obtuse near the base, stamens 

 nearly 15, filaments slightly dilate at the base. Ovary nearly inferior 

 albo-tomentose at the apex, 2 -celled, styles 2, entirely connate or slightly 

 distinct at the apex, hirsute at the base, stigma oblique capitate. Fruits 

 elhptico-pyriformecl, 6 mm. long, 44 mm. broad, long pedunculate, peduncles 

 4 mm. long. 



The Formosau plant is included in P. canaMis by W. B. HEMSLEY in 

 Ind. Fl. Sin. I p. 263. While studying at Kew, I examined all specimens 



